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      <excerpt>...pieces of House legislation ever, congressional historians say.Republicans are making political theater of the bill's bulk. Rep. Roy Blunt (R. Mo.) said the bill is longer than War and Peace (1,225 pages) and the King James Bible (1,291 pages). Rep. Mic</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...is video of U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt's speech on the House floor earlier today about the Democratic health care reform bill being debated tonight in the House of Representatives.  You must be logged in to leave a comment.    Login    |  Register    You must </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...can muster sufficient support in a vote on the long-debated legislation that could take place as early as Saturday. Rep. Roy Blunt was part of a parade of House members and conservative activists exhorting the boisterous crowd assembled at the Capitol's</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...care reform to the Holocaust, and the video that made it out of the protest was heavy on Bachmann &#8212; one of the people Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) seemed to be referring to in a cryptic October comment about how to deal with a &#8220;problem member&#8221; who keeps</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...The gallery is open to the public.		  The St. Louis County Council holds regular weekly meeting in council chambers		  U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt, a GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate, is slated to speak Nov. 12 to the West County Republican Organization at Che</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Please login or register.  The St. Louis County Council holds regular weekly meeting in council chambers		  U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt, a GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate, is slated to speak Nov. 12 to the West County Republican Organization at Chesterfield C</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...who works in a contained area, maybe you ought to be at elementary schools instead of Wall Street banks,&quot; said Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo. The Service Employees International Union was more harsh in its criticism. &quot;It's bad enough that Wall Street crashed our</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...gallery is open to the public.		  The St. Louis County Council holds regular weekly meeting in council chambers		  U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt, a GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate, is slated to speak Nov. 12 to the West County Republican Organization at Chester</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Sen. Jack Goodman is dispelling what it calls a &quot;rumor&quot; that he might get out of the 2010 Republican primary to succeed Rep. Roy Blunt in the U.S. House. &quot;It is just a rumor,&quot; Goodman campaign manager Miles Ross said Wednesday night. &quot;No way Jack would </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...The gallery is open to the public.		  The St. Louis County Council holds regular weekly meeting in council chambers		  U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt, a GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate, is slated to speak Nov. 12 to the West County Republican Organization at Che</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>(In that case, the member was Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.), and what he needed to get comfortable with the bill was an agreement to address regional disparities in Medicare reimbursement rates.) .... a member will say,&amp;#39; I&amp;#39;m not voting for  that bill,</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>But to appreciate how good it is, just look at the Republican alternative joke bill that John Boehner, Roy Blunt and Paul Ryan put forward. We don&amp;#39;t often laud Debbie Wasserman Schultz here but she hit the nail on the head when she ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Minority Leader John Boehner (OH), Minority Whip Eric Cantor (VA), Roy Blunt (MO), Jeb Hensarling (TX), Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA), Michele Bachmann (MN) -- a key organizer of the event, Virginia Foxx (NC), Ginny Brown-Waite (FL), ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...few months of the current administration ...  Rep. Roy Blunt's racist &quot;monkey joke&quot; (Updated)  dailykos.com 9/19/2009 &#8212; Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO), who is running for U.S. Senate in 2010, spoke at the Values Voter Summit on Friday night. He came on after C</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>The only Republican House members who have taken bigger bribes from Wall Street are Roy Blunt ($2892505), John Boehner ($3333409), Eric Cantor ($3623035) and Spencer Bachus ($4028424), Congress&amp;#39; 4 most dedicated lackeys for banksterism. ...</excerpt>
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