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11.09.2009 9:00 pm

Roy Blunt takes populist outrage for a spin.

R.J. Matson/Post-Dispatch

R.J. Matson/Post-Dispatch

Roy Blunt usually is not the kind of politician who trades in populist outrage. But there he was last week, issuing a statement from his U.S. House office that said, “While many Missourians are still at risk, Wall Street…

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10.23.2009 10:00 am

Akin breakin’ hip

U.S. Rep. Todd Akin

U.S. Rep. Todd Akin

What is it about Canadian hips that so fascinates Missouri Republican Congressmen?

On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, R-Town and Country, took to the House floor to repeat a claim we first debunked more than two months ago about the…

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08.24.2009 6:39 pm

Making news (up): Trent Franks with a the double play

U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., held a town-hall meeting in his district over the weekend in which he revealed himself to be a birther (is that still going on?) and said (without apparent disbelief from the crowd) that Republicans have pending health care reform legislation.

Wait. What?…

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08.16.2009 9:01 pm

Truth and not-quite-truth in the health reform debate

Doctors practice new hip replacement techniques on a cadaver.

Doctors practice new hip replacement techniques on a cadaver.

As chairman of the House Republican Health Care Solutions Group, Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Springfield, knows a thing or two about health care. But some of what he knows just isn’t true.
“I’m 59,”…

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07.29.2009 3:59 pm

Blunt backs birthers

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

At 1:32 of the video.

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07.23.2009 10:34 am

Roy Blunt on GOP plan: Never mind

U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt

U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt

Roy Blunt, chair of the House GOP Health Care Solutions Group, has decided that Republicans don’t need their own version of a health care reform plan.

Blunt, of course, is the congressional rep from Springfield, Mo. He’s running…

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08.09.2008 9:20 am

Just one question for Rep. Roy Blunt: Tax oil?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Roy Blunt platformRep. Roy Blunt was in town Friday, and met and talked with the editorial board on many topics — such as national energy policy, the new foreign intelligence surveillance law, healthcare, presidential and vice presidential politics and what it will take…

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08.08.2008 1:21 pm

Rep. Roy Blunt talks to the editorial board

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO 7th) meets with the editorial boardU.S. Representative and Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO 7th) came in to have a chat with the Post-Dispatch editorial board today, discussing a wide range of election-year issues ranging from energy to health care to his take on the presidential race.

Energy

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07.15.2008 1:54 pm

Round-up: It’s money, business and an open thread.

FiredUp Missouri is looking for Gov. Matt Blunt’s latest finance report to see whether he returned over-limit donations.

Meanwhile, Politico notes that the governor’s dad, U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, has handed the NRCC a half million clams for the fall campaigns.

Gubernatorial…

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