Jerry Moran

There is a crying need for a facility of this nature in this country at this time.

Secretary Napolitano testified this morning in a full Committee hearing and indicated that we have a ways to go--this is my summary of what she said--in preparedness on agro bioterror and that NBIF, the facility needs to be built.

Well, that would be fine, sir. Let me ask a broad question which is, is that the hope for the future, is that we can develop the necessary capabilities through science and research so that the consequences of the introduction of one of…

The best approach is prevention, and prevention comes through early detection.

We have to take a new approach, a new look to the way we address these diseases today.

The threat is certainly something to be concerned about, but in the absence of an actual introduction, other countries use this to their advantage.

Even the rumor of the disease introduction, whatever disease it is, has had tremendous consequences in market prices.

Is our focus more on prevention or upon containment?

Where are the greatest risks, is my question, I guess.

So the categorization matters as far as the priority or emphasis, at least in funding, that comes from the Federal Government?

I want to make certain that we, as a Congress, and the Department of Homeland Security... are doing the necessary things to protect our food supply.

Food safety and cultivation agriculture is a significant component of our economy.

This is a significant issue, certainly for our country.

Tonight the President will try, once again, to restart this economy. But the problem is not with the President or his policies. It's here with the House majority who will oppose whatever he proposes. They will say that we tried the…

I would appreciate you taking a look at that.

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I would love to see what that criteria is so that there is an opportunity for the communities to make the case that matters to the Postal Service.

The point is I understand that this train is leaving the station, but it's going in the wrong direction. We need to be investing in this country, not taking away the resources that will enable it to grow, it is through education, training…

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According to Grover Norquist, who's apparently the real Republican strategist, this is about ensuring that Democrats will never again have the revenue to govern as Democrats. But what does he mean by that? Is he talking about when…

I have spoken several times over the last several weeks with regard to the issue at hand. Clearly, the time continues to escape us, and the day of reckoning is coming in regard to the debt ceiling issue. I have said from the very beginning…

May I make a parliamentary inquiry? The Acting CHAIR. State your inquiry.

You've heard it. I will explain: I rose previously to claim the time in opposition, now I am rising to strike the last word. Mr. Chairman, if this was not such a late hour, we would have had five or six times as many Members rising in…

I do think that it's important that we make this nominal investment in the cultural lives of our citizens and in our children's futures. I can't imagine how a Nation as rich and prosperous as ours would not consider it a priority to…

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