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“Remember, there are no cuts to Medicaid. Every year in Medicaid, you spend more money than you spent the year before under this plan, but the growth is not as great as it would be if you continued to pay, for instance, 100 percent for single able-bodied adults. Now, there is something wrong with the way that system is put together.”

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Roy Blunt

Roy Blunt (born January 10, 1950) is an American Republican politician who served as a United States Senator from Missouri from 2011 to 2023. He held key leadership roles, including Senate Republican Whip and Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee. Known for his moderate conservative stance and bipartisan efforts, Blunt focused on agriculture, education, and historic preservation. He announced his retirement in 2022, ending a public service career spanning over four decades. more

“Writing is akin to method acting. Before the writer can render a fully convincing world, he or she must inhabit that world, and every major character who lives there. I'm not suggesting that one always has to go this far. But I truly believe what makes the setting for my novels come alive is that I've lived there first.”

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Author:Richard North Patterson

“It's a problem that Congress has really taken on in the last couple of years. We tripled the money that was being - to be spent on opioids. Legislation sort of followed that. Then we doubled that tripling. I think, at some point, there's a limit to how many times we can multiply that in a short period of time, but this is a real problem. In Missouri, more people die from drug overdoses than car accidents.”

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Author:Roy Blunt

“If you're a first-responder in Missouri as part of a fire department, you're three times more likely to respond to a drug overdose than you are a fire. So it's a problem. I don't know exactly what the right number is, but certainly I think members of the Senate and House are rightly concerned about it.”

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Author:Roy Blunt

“The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.”

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Author:Russell Baker