Jerry Moran

I was very pleased to see the Congress address some of the uncertainty by passing legislation to repeal the costly and unprecedented 1099 tax reporting mandate in the new healthcare law.

The IRS's goal of improving services, making voluntary compliance easier, and enforcing the laws to ensure that everyone pays their fair share of taxes, is all laudable.

Okay. What percentage of American individuals file their return with the assistance of a professional preparer?

We believe that the President's request will allow the IRS to continue helping taxpayers meet their tax obligations.

A decision by the Congress to address our budget problem by cutting IRS funding would be akin to a private business attempting to address a spending shortfall by cutting its Accounts receivable department.

We need to get the country's economy moving again. Americans are struggling, and overly burdensome regulations and reporting requirements hamper the ability of our Nation's small businesses to grow their businesses and create jobs.

Timeframe wise, for implementation of ACA, what happens incrementally between now and 2014, or, its full implementation?

The IRS 1099 issue that Chairman Durbin just talked about, as I understand, your budget request included $23.3 million and 82 full-time employees attributed to that healthcare law's provisions.

And then, what Chairman Durbin was talking about caused me to want to inquire about the security.

Is Dillon's going to rebuild the grocery store? It was a determining factor as to whether anybody was going to live there.

I want to make sure that we follow up and work together to figure out how we address this issue that's apparently particularly Kansas oriented.

In the absence of a Presidential declaration, a Governor's declaration of a disaster is sufficient for you to provide loan services to those affected by that disaster?

I look forward to--assuming that you're willing--to follow up with you and see if we can't help in that regard.

At the same time, we need to grow our economy. And we need to make certain that the opportunities are there for small business and entrepreneurs to succeed.

The key to our country's future of success is the ability of entrepreneurs and small businessmen and women to succeed.

In my view, the regulatory burden that community banks are facing, increasing the cost of being in business...

You created the environment by which Target now believes it can succeed, as compared to providing any kind of direct benefit to Target.

The food deserts are an important aspect--and again, I would--of something we're trying to make certain it doesn't continue.

I wanted to make certain that there is not an unnecessary delay in this consolidation.

And the advantage to the person who suffers the disaster is the certainty of the availability of credit and a lower interest rate than would presumably be available elsewhere?

I think this comes from information that you provided.

I just returned from Kansas over the weekend--Reading, Kansas--saw the tornado damage there; a small town of about 270 folks with half the homes destroyed.

The American economy is facing many difficult challenges, and we need to get our country moving again.

Economic development can be whether or not there's a grocery store in town.

I have heard, from Kansas bankers, some frustration with the level of services provided by the SBA.