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According to the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', Blunt "has one of the Senate's most conservative voting records, yet he generally avoids the confrontational, firebrand style" and during his tenure in the U.S. Senate "Blunt's most significant legislative accomplishments all had Democrat co-sponsors."<ref name=dispatch>{{cite news|last1=Raasch|first1=Chuck|title=Roy Blunt's quest for bipartisan results|url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/roy-blunt-s-quest-for-bipartisan-results/article_89b26716-40df-5712-817e-934ef9554f39.html|access-date=November 2, 2016|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|date=October 31, 2016}}</ref> [[Richard Lugar#The Lugar Center|The Lugar Center]] and [[Georgetown University|Georgetown's]] [[McCourt School of Public Policy]]'s Bipartisan Index ranked Blunt the 11th most bipartisan senator in the first session of the [[115th United States Congress]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thelugarcenter.org/assets/htmldocuments/Senate%20Scores%20115th%20Congress%20First%20Session.pdf|publisher=The Lugar Center|title=The Lugar Center - McCourt School Bipartisan Index|date=April 24, 2018|access-date=July 9, 2018|location=Washington, D.C.}}</ref>
 
In December 2018, Blunt received GHTC’s Innovating for Impact Congressional Champion Award <ref>{{Cite web|title= Senator Roy Blunt: 2018 Congressional Champion Award|url= https://www.ghtcoalition.org/innovating-for-impact/ roy-blunt|website=GHTC|language=en-US}} </ref> for his work in protecting and expanding funding for agencies engaged in global health research and development (R&D), including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as chairman of the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee.
 
[[File:210120-D-WD757-1680 (50860516863).jpg|thumb|left|Blunt speaking at the [[inauguration of Joe Biden]]]]