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Palmyra, MO - Republican Congressman Roy Blunt made a campaign stop in Palmyra a day after the announcement he is running for Senate in 2010.

Blunt says it's important for Missourians to keep a Republican in the Senate seat in order to keep the balance of power intact on Capitol Hill.

He says the Democratic majority is spending money the country doesn't have with the new economic stimulus package that passed earlier this week.

He says Democrats are out of hand already, passing an $8 billion high speed train project linking Las Vegas to Disney World in California inside the stimulus package.

Blunt says projects like that may be important to some people, but they aren't important enough to saddle the future children of this country with unimaginable debt.

He says Kit Bond's Senate seat must stay a Republican seat.

Blunt said, "It's really important that not one side should be able to do whatever they want. It's really about a balance of power. The Senate at this moment is really the last speed bump between the national Democrats doing whatever they want to, or having to think about how we come up with a bipartisan solution."

Blunt faces Democrat Robin Carnahan for the Senate seat.

Republican Senator Kit Bond announced in January that he would not seek election to a fifth term.