Jerry Moran

I wanted to raise with you or at least ask you to assure me that the cuts in the critical access hospital program you think are appropriate or necessary.

Well, thank you. My response was little more of an opening statement kind of response than I anticipated.

We think now that most new jobs are coming from startups, companies 5-years old and younger.

It is a privilege to be here and to hear our witnesses, and I look forward to that moment. I just wanted to highlight legislation that I and Senator Warner, also a Member of this Committee, have introduced, which is called the Startup Act…

We now have a $295 billion trade deficit with China which was recorded last year.

I have some legislation that would have us take Federally funded research that leads to new widgets to require that the widgets be made and manufactured here in America.

We need to find ways to work, not just with the Commerce Department, but across the continuum of incentives to attract people to build plants here and to make products here.

I hope the House of Representatives will pass legislation that would require--which would compel China to stop manipulating its currency.

Those products should be made here. And we should require in the licensing or the utilization of this information that we require that they be manufactured here.

Help us help you solve this problem.

I have expressed my complaint to the VA before because when the VA then implemented its pilot program, it did not choose a VISN as a pilot project.

I owe you every tool possible to help you meet that criteria; and the complaint or concern I have is that I am not being asked to do something to solve the problem.

In 2008 Congress passed the Rural Veterans Access to Care Act.

Everything I know about this topic suggests that it is otherwise. In fact, the farm organizations and commodity groups of the wide array of those who advocate across the country on behalf of agricultural producers are aligned with us in…

I share the genuine concern expressed by the Senator from South Dakota. Farmers have so many things to concern themselves with in the ability to earn a living. The weather is not always their friend. Is this the right crop to grow? What…

I thank my good friend from Maryland. I appreciate the work of the conferees, but I oppose this conference agreement, not out of concern for the welfare of the tens of thousands of Federal employees that I represent, but out of concern for…

I appreciate those sentiments. I would say that these proposed rules did not come about as a result of Congress passing a piece of legislation or of there being congressional hearings finding a series of problems in regard to safety with…

I don't think anybody in the service is looking for a handout. They are looking for a hand up.

we cannot tolerate sequestration in the amount of--$1 trillion over the next decade in the Defense Department period.

The House leadership is still scrambling to find the votes to pass what everyone is coming to recognize as the worst transportation authorization bill in this Nation's history. But with gasoline prices approaching $4 a gallon, House…

We should be able to find ways that we can work together as a nation to help these young men and women as they transition from the service and back into our society.

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…

You mentioned Iran as the most serious concern in the Middle East.

Should the Air Force not purchase the two additional Block 30s, a production break may very well impact the cost and schedule for the BAMS.

I think you would find willing Members who could come together.