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Roy D. Blunt (born January 10, 1950) is the junior United States Senator from Missouri. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Read More at Wikipedia ›A simple congressional request for the United States to distinguish between Palestinians displaced by the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict and millions of their descendants poses a high-stakes diplomatic and political challenge for President Barack Obama.
The State Department dislikes the idea, arguing that it would force the U.S. to prejudge one of the final so-called status issues of Mideast peace negotiations — refugees — that both Democrats and Republicans say Israel and the Palestinians should resolve in the now-stalled two-state talks. State Department spokesman Mark Toner insisted Wednesday that the fate of refugees "needs to be worked out between the parties."Jordan opposes it, as it wonders who will care for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees within its borders if the definition changes.Whatever step the Obama administration takes in an election year is certain to resonate as Republicans and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney persist in questioning the president's ...Sen. Blunt reacts to CBO report
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FEMA will likely run out of money and close early this week
Republicans hoping to retain retiring Missouri Senator Kit Bond's seat
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she saw it coming, even before the public scolding last weekend at Alaska's Iditarod dog sled race. Siding with Republican leaders on a cont...
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Former House Minority Whip Roy Blunt , R-Mo, will announce that he's running for the Senate in Missouri on Thursday, according to two sources with knowledge of the C...
Lawmakers, lobbyists, Bush administration officials, congressional staffers and others caught up in the Jack Abramoff public corruption probe:— Tony Rudy, lobbyist a...
Eager to energize young voters, President Barack Obama is depicting Republicans as obstacles to an affordable college education as he previews an argument he will ma...
Chris Stirewalt talks to Sarah Steelman, a tea party candidate running against freshman democratic senator Claire McCaskill in Missouri
Rep . Roy Blunt on Obama's GOP fiscal 'credibility' comment
Playing for another upset, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum urged conservatives Friday to further upend the nominating contest by putting Illinois in his col...
After months of sustained, historic Midwest flooding and criticism that the government bungled its management of the Missouri River, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...