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| https://www.blunt.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/videos?ContentRecord_id=733E818B-132D-43B8-B915-A8B07F1D52FF | VIDEO: Blunt Highlights 2017 Legislative Wins for Hardworking Families | 2017-12-22 | 2017 | 2017-12 | Republican | House | MO | Roy Blunt | B000575 | www.blunt.senate.gov | legacy | WASHINGTON Yesterday, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) spoke on the Senate floor to discuss how the Republican-led Senate and Trump administration have worked together this year to secure Missourians top priorities. In his remarks, Blunt discussed the newly-enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which allows families to keep more of what they earn.He also touted the Senates efforts to roll back excessive regulations, and underscored the need to continue working to support our nations veterans and service members, and their families. Following are excerpts from Blunts remarks: On Providing Tax Cuts to Hardworking Families: Madam President, we are quickly approaching the end of this year, and I think it is a good time to reflect on what has been done this year. Certainly, the Senate and the Trump administration have been able to do a number of things that are really going to have a significant impact on hard-working families. Yesterday, we sent the most significant tax reform legislation in more than three decades to the President's desk. If you are a family of four earning about $73,000 this year and $73,000 next year, next year, your tax is going to be $2,000 less than it is this year. If you are a single parent with one child earning $41,000, next year your tax will be $1,300 less than it is this year. Now, some will say--as a matter of fact, I have heard it on the floor of the Senate--a few hundred dollars a month will not matter. Well, now that is clearly somebody who doesn't know how much a few hundred dollars a month or a few hundred dollars a year does matter. This bill will give us ways to compete that we don't have now. The bill also will provide Missouri families and other families more jobs and more opportunities because we are going to be more competitive. On Rolling Back Excessive Red Tape: The rolling back of red tape is one of the reasons that the economy in our country is already growing faster than it has in a decade. People saw the regulatory overreach. Most importantly, President Trump saw the regulatory overreach. The House and the Senate saw the regulatory overreach. We were able to block 15 regulations before they went into effect. Other regulations, like the totally ridiculous power rule that was proposed, which in my State would have doubled the utility bill in less than 12 years, is not going to happen now. The waters of the United States, which would have suddenly put the EPA in charge of anything involving water, is not going to happen now. The $52 million increase in just the cost of getting something where you could start, which was the anticipated cost of the waters of the United States, is not going to happen now. On Supporting Our Nations Veterans, Service Members, & Families: Chairman Isakson of the Veterans' Affairs Committee was on the floor earlier, talking about what we have done with his leadership for veterans, and that list is long. The Veterans Choice Act continues to give veterans more opportunity to get the care where they want it rather than to be stuck in a system that didn't seem to always care that much whether veterans got care or not. It was more about the Veterans' Administration than the veterans, and competition and choice is in the process of ending that with good leadership at the VA administration and being sure that happens. We were able to pass a bill that I sponsored, the HIRE Vets Act. It is being implemented right now to recognize companies that hire vets, that promote vets, and that give vets credit for the skills they learned in the military. The Department of Labor has worked hard to put that on fast-forward and get it done. In the military, the Military Family Stability Act means that families, for the first time, have the opportunity that they have always hoped to have for the family to move a little earlier or stay a little longer, if that works for education purposes or the spouse's education or career purposes. This is a dramatic step, appreciating the fact that the strength of the military is in military families. | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |