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| https://www.blunt.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/videos?ContentRecord_id=C09FFF3A-42C9-4378-A103-9C6AA735ABDD | VIDEO: On Meet the Press, Blunt Discusses Tax Reform & Efforts to Address Sexual Harassment | 2017-11-19 | 2017 | 2017-11 | Republican | House | MO | Roy Blunt | B000575 | www.blunt.senate.gov | legacy | WASHINGTON – In an interview today with Andrea Mitchell on NBC’s Meet the Press, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) discussed tax reform and Senate efforts to address sexual harassment. Following are excerpts from Blunt’s interview: On the Senate-Passed Resolution Aimed at Preventing Sexual Harassment: “And in the Senate, no matter who gets elected from Alabama, or what happens with anybody else, we need to be sure that we've got an environment where people want to come and be part of that, where women are comfortable being part of that. My chief of staff is a woman, my legislative director is a woman, my press person is a woman. I wouldn't want to have an environment where you couldn't have the best people come. So, we've put together a working group, Senator Klobuchar, and Senator Cortez Masto, and Senator Capito and I, Senator Shelby joined us, we proposed changing our rules so there's mandatory orientation towards these things that shouldn't happen so people know what is perceived to be inappropriate and also to change the law. Going back to the 1980s where it may have seemed reasonable at the time, but in the current law if you report harassment, you're the one that has to go into 20 hours of counseling before you can decide whether you were really harassed or not, that's just totally inappropriate. … In the Congress of the United States, you want to have an environment where people are comfortable wanting to work there, saying they work there, putting on their resume in future years they worked there without feeling like there was an environment that wasn't open and appropriate in both seeking opinions and seeking the kind of advice that the country and the Congress needs.” On the Senate Tax Plan’s Immediate Benefits for Hardworking Families: “But when you look at the real tax bill, both House and Senate, I think it's designed to do two things. One is to create immediately more take-home pay for hardworking families, and the second thing at the other end of the scale, do whatever we can to be sure there are better jobs in the future for those very same families. We've had eight years of economic stagnation for hardworking families and this tax bill, I think, creates the opportunity to move dramatically beyond that. … And I've talked to lots of economists about this who are usually pretty gloomy, who have been very optimistic that this bill does what we hope it would do in terms of making us more competitive all over the world.” On Tax Changes that Will Encourage Companies to Bring Up to $2 Trillion Back to the U.S. Economy: “I think one of the things you do in this tax bill is you create an opportunity to bring maybe as much as $2 trillion back into our economy that's currently overseas because of our tax policy. You want to talk about a stimulus, we've never actually even imagined a stimulus that would be $2 trillion of other money coming back to the country.” | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |