Roy Blunt, Senator for Missouri

Blunt is the junior senator from Missouri and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 5, 2011. Blunt is next up for reelection in 2022.

He was previously the representative for Missouri’s 7^th congressional district as a Republican from 1997 to 2010.

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2017 Report Card for Blunt.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Blunt is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Blunt has sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

United States Chamber of Commerce: 93% NumbersUSA: 82% Americans for Prosperity: 80% FreedomWorks: 80% American Civil Liberties Union: 70% The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: B The Club for Growth: 54% League of Conservation Voters: 5% Human Rights Campaign: 0% NIAC Action: F Planned Parenthood Action Fund: 0%

Committee Membership

Roy Blunt sits on the following committees:

Chair, Joint Committee on Printing
Chair, Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
Vice Chair, Joint Committee on the Library
Senate Committee on Appropriations
- Chair, Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies
- Member, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
- Member, Subcommittee on Department of Defense
- Member, Subcommittee on Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
- Member, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
- Member, Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
- Chair, Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security
- Member, Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet
- Member, Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security
- Member, Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and Security
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Enacted Legislation

Blunt was the primary sponsor of 24 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Blunt sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (23%) Taxation (18%) Health (17%) Government Operations and Politics (13%) International Affairs (8%) Transportation and Public Works (8%) Economics and Public Finance (7%) Crime and Law Enforcement (5%)

Recent Bills

Some of Blunt’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Blunt’s Vote	Vote Description
Yea	H.J.Res. 43: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the final rule submitted by Secretary of Health and Human Services relating ... Mar 30, 2017. Joint Resolution Passed 51/50. Joe Biden never got the opportunity to break a single 50-50 Senate tie in eight years as vice president. Mike Pence has already broken two. One from last month has since become law: a measure allowing states to withhold federal Planned Parenthood funding. (The other ...
Yea	H.R. 5325: Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2017 Sep 28, 2016. Bill Passed 72/26. The Continuing Appropriations and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017, and Zika Response and Preparedness Act (H.R. 5325) is an appropriations bill which extended funding at the previous year's levels up to December 9, 2016 (10 weeks). After this, a continuing ...
Nay	S. 1177: Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 Dec 9, 2015. Conference Report Agreed to 85/12. The Every Child Achieves Act is a bipartisan educational policy reform bill that would expand state responsibility over schools, provide grants to charter schools, and reduce the federal test-based accountability system of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The bill was referred to the ...
Yea	H.R. 22: Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act Dec 3, 2015. Conference Report Agreed to 83/16. H.R 22, formerly the Hire More Heroes Act, has become the Senate’s vehicle for passage of the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act or DRIVE Act (S. 1647). The DRIVE Act is a major bipartisan transportation bill that would authorize funding ...
Nay	S. 1177: Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 Jul 16, 2015. Bill Passed 81/17. The Every Child Achieves Act is a bipartisan educational policy reform bill that would expand state responsibility over schools, provide grants to charter schools, and reduce the federal test-based accountability system of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The bill was referred to the ...
Nay	On the Nomination PN31: Sally Quillian Yates, of Georgia, to be Deputy Attorney General May 13, 2015. Nomination Confirmed 84/12.
Not Voting	S. 3729 (111th): National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010 Sep 29, 2010. Passed 304/118.
Yea	H.Res. 1184 (111th): Congratulating the 2009-2010 University of Maryland Men’s Basketball Team, Greivis Vasquez, and Coach Gary Williams on an ... Mar 17, 2010. Passed 279/132.
Aye	H.R. 1752 (111th): To provide that the usual day for paying salaries in or under the House of Representatives may ... Jul 30, 2009. Failed 282/144.
Nay	H.R. 2638 (110th): Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009 Sep 24, 2008. Passed 370/58.
Yea	H.R. 1830 (110th): To extend the authorities of the Andean Trade Preference Act until February 29, 2008. Jun 27, 2007. Passed 365/59.

Missed Votes

From Jan 2011 to Nov 2018, Blunt missed 85 of 2,214 roll call votes, which is 3.8%. This is much worse than the median of 1.5% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2011 Jan-Mar	46	2	4.3%	73^rd
2011 Apr-Jun	58	3	5.2%	74^th
2011 Jul-Sep	49	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Oct-Dec	82	5	6.1%	91^st
2012 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Apr-Jun	109	1	0.9%	46^th
2012 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Nov-Dec	50	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	92	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Apr-Jun	76	4	5.3%	82^nd
2013 Jul-Sep	43	1	2.3%	73^rd
2013 Oct-Dec	80	14	17.5%	96^th
2014 Jan-Mar	93	2	2.2%	72^nd
2014 Apr-Jun	123	7	5.7%	69^th
2014 Jul-Sep	54	6	11.1%	92^nd
2014 Nov-Dec	96	5	5.2%	80^th
2015 Jan-Mar	135	3	2.2%	81^st
2015 Apr-Jun	85	3	3.5%	80^th
2015 Jul-Sep	52	5	9.6%	88^th
2015 Oct-Dec	67	4	6.0%	86^th
2016 Jan-Mar	38	3	7.9%	80^th
2016 Apr-Jun	79	4	5.1%	84^th
2016 Jul-Sep	34	0	0.0%	0^th
2016 Nov-Dec	12	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jan-Mar	101	2	2.0%	80^th
2017 Apr-Jun	54	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jul-Sep	53	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Oct-Dec	117	6	5.1%	89^th
2018 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
2018 Apr-Jun	80	3	3.8%	77^th
2018 Jul-Sep	75	2	2.7%	58^th
2018 Oct-Nov	26	0	0.0%	0^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

@unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
GPO Member Guide for the photo
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills

Roy Blunt is pronounced:

roy // blunt

The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:

Letter	Sounds As In
B b	bat
L l	leg
N n	not
OY oy	boy
R r	rag
T t	top
U u	cup

Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.

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