Jerry Moran

The President's solution is to raise revenues to balance the budget, but does anyone really believe that increased taxes will be used to pay down the debt or will it just be used for even more spending?

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 14, strike lines 3 through 11 (and redesignate the subsequent sections accordingly). The CHAIR. The gentleman from Virginia is…

There is no question that the Clean Water Act is responsible for the health, such as it is, of the Potomac River. There was a time when you could almost strike a match and light the Potomac River on fire, there was so much pollution in it.

I thank the gentleman from Washington. I am not going to belabor this, but I do think for the record we should clarify. Some of what the gentleman said is accurate except for the material. This was not sewerage. This was filtered silt that…

I thank my very good friend, the ranking member of Energy and Water Appropriations. Let me first address the points that were made by my very good friend from Montana. First of all, there was a suggestion that there was sewerage dumped…

Only 3 percent of the water on this planet is freshwater, but that's the water that we depend upon for drinking, for agriculture, and for much of our fishing and wildlife habitat. If my amendment to strike section 109 of this bill is not…

I would underscore what the distinguished ranking member of the full Appropriations Committee has said: This amendment prevents guidance and rulemaking. It's that comprehensive. What EPA and the Corps of Engineers have tried to do is to…

I've explained what this amendment does. I believe that it is critically important to protect the headwaters and the wetlands of America. Two Supreme Court rulings cast considerable doubt on what is to be considered navigable water…

There is insufficient time to lay out the other side to what has been presented. I don't particularly have strong disagreement with many of the points that have been made, but I do think there is another perspective to this. It ought to be…

I ask to speak for up to 15 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Kansas.

it is appropriate that we are here on this July 4 holiday week. I joined a number of my colleagues last week who made it clear it was important for us to be here. Raising the debt ceiling is a significant issue we face, and while I am…

I thank my very good friend from California for yielding me the time. Madam Speaker, the Middle East peace process is at risk of collapse, and I believe that only American leadership can save it. Both sides can and should do more to…

Imagine if, just 2 weeks after Secretary Gates excoriated some of our NATO allies for skimping on their commitments to the global security infrastructure that is a key to our economic system and the open societies that safeguard our…

We were asked to come into Libya by Libyans, by the Arab League, by the Gulf Cooperation Council, by the European Union, and by the United Nations Security Council. Today we are standing where we should be standing, with those who believe…

If this resolution passes, and we weaken NATO's mission, Qadhafi may very well prevail. His forces will then kill, rape, and torture all those Libyans who opposed him, as he has already tried to do. Qadhafi has reportedly kidnapped…

today, I was unavoidably absent for votes No. 95 and No. 96. At the time of the votes, I was attending a memorial service at Fort Riley, KS, for six soldiers of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division. Had I been present, I would have voted…

I do rise in opposition to this amendment that would allow horse slaughtering to resume in the United States. The language that the gentlelady's amendment would strike was put into the bill as a bipartisan amendment by two Republicans and…

I want to make certain that we do not have a formula that unnecessarily excludes folks who happen to reside in rural America.

It is my experience that in at least many of those small rural communities they have the least amount of preparation, expertise, responsibility as compared to a larger community that has more professional ongoing planning and response to…

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

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

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

So, you would be requesting $190 million more in your appropriations request in your budget request, but for those savings?

Mr. Chairman, thank you.