Rep. Blunt (R-MO) announces his intensions to run for U.S. Senate

Abigail Perlman, wife of Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO), watches as he announces his plan to run for the Missouri U.S. Senate seat in 2010, in St. Louis on February 19, 2009. Blunt, from Southwest Missouri, was the House Republican whip for the 110th United States Congress. (UPI Photo/Bill Greenblatt)