Jerry Moran

I want to associate myself with the concern registered by Ranking Member Dicks over the idea of mothballing 18 new Global Hawk Block 30s.

Well, it bears noting, Mr. Chairman, that at Fort Belvoir it is actually working quite well. We have not received one single complaint.

It is conceivable it could be counterproductive.

Well, I do not want to interrupt, and we do seem to be repeating ourselves, but it is 65 years now that there has been a consensus that we ought to combine our military medical services because the mission of healing the body is the same…

We will very carefully manage the reduction in Active-Duty end strength from 202,000 to 182,100 marines by the end of fiscal year 2016 in order to keep faith with the marines and their families to the maximum extent possible.

I am here today to raise once again a topic about how we raise our children in rural America, and I want to talk for a few moments about the proposed Department of Labor child farm labor rules. Last week, we had perhaps what would be…

Why cannot we do here what we have to do in Afghanistan and actually do quite well when we need to?

Well, we can't help but have confidence and trust that you are on top of it.

They simply changed the goalpost.

This is a wealthy country. Corporate profits are at record highs. By the end of last year, the private sector was expanding at a healthy 4.5 percent annualized pace. But why, then, wasn't economic growth in the most recent quarter even…

I thank my very good friend, the distinguished ranking member of the committee, for yielding me this time to rise in strong opposition to an extension of the current pay freeze for Federal employees. This legislation is a cynical attempt…

The most important thing that the Senate could do right now is to capitalize on the extraordinary goodwill and bipartisan atmosphere that surrounds this issue of startups.

It is loans not investments.

The debt is an important part of this conversation.

But what is the significance of that point?

I would indicate to you that in my short period of time as a United States Senator, trying to get a regulatory environment in which community banks can lend money to creditworthy borrowers has been a cause of mine.

Whether or not Mr. Cordray was confirmed had no effect upon the consequences of Dodd-Frank to Wall Street.

It is the community bankers who believe that they, in most instances, had nothing to do in causing the problem but yet still are in the bullseye for additional regulation.

I cannot imagine that there is not a constitutional issue about what Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution means.

I appreciate so much the remarks of the Senator from Oregon, Mr. Wyden. It was a significant moment in my brief time as a Member of the Senate when, 3 months ago, Senator Wyden and I had a conversation here on the Senate floor about this…

I know we are all anxious to reach a conclusion on significant legislation that is pending. It determines many things important to Americans and it creates the opportunity for Members of the Senate and the House to spend a little time at…

One of the beneficiaries of growing up on a family farm in Kansas is somebody I would also like to mention briefly this morning. As Members of Congress, we surround ourselves with bright minds and fellow natives of our home States. I have…

I too want to join the chorus in commending Chairman Rogers, Chairman Simpson, and our ranking member, Norm Dicks, and the phenomenal work of the appropriations staff on both sides. Rich Healey and Shalanda Young, for example, have been…

I wish to explain my absence from rollcall votes 230 and 231 on Thursday, December 15, 2011. I was unable to vote yesterday because I was back in Atchison, KS, paying my respects to slain police sergeant David Enzbrenner. Officer…

I want to say this. This is the way things were meant to be done in this body. Politics was meant to be the art of compromise, with people acting in good faith for the betterment of their country. That's what this omnibus appropriations…