Jerry Moran: “It is rare for me to be on the House floor speaking about someone else's bills or speaking about an amendment. Usually…”

“It is rare for me to be on the House floor speaking about someone else's bills or speaking about an amendment. Usually when I am here, it is on a topic of interest and personal involvement from my committees and my involvement as a Member of Congress from a very rural community who is here to fight on behalf of rural America. Well, tonight as I watched the debate on this issue, as I heard it explained, it is one of those issues that caused me to walk across the street to come talk about something that is gnawing at me. We have talked about a double standard between the leadership staff, the committee staff, and our own personal staff. But to me the double standard is the way that Americans in the job market are not treated when they lose their job. What I see is that Americans, the taxpayers of this country, will see one more piece of evidence that Congress doesn't get it, that we are simply taking care of our own and forgetting the taxpayers, the Americans who go to work each and every day and those who may, through no fault of their own, lose their jobs.”