Jerry Moran

I look forward to working with you as we consider the fiscal year 2012 budget requests for the CFTC and the SEC.

It's very hard to fight the word 'bureaucracy.' But, if we can have the specific examples of the rules and regulations or the enforcement action that make no sense, we can address those individually.

I would say--and I'm not necessarily here advocating for my bankers; I'm here advocating for what I think is important to the economy in putting people to work is banks that can make loans.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. So the point is the law as it stands today is, we shut the government down, a million Federal employees don't get paid, our staff doesn't get paid, but we get paid. All the gentleman wants to say is…

This morning several dozen students from Key Elementary School came to visit the office, and they wanted to know what we were doing. They were all excited to be up on Capitol Hill. So I explained: Well, this afternoon we are debating a…

So at least today we could put ourselves on record that we are not going to put people out on the street while we continue to get paid, because we get paid from a different authorization, as does the President. Now, this is legislation we…

Private sector employment went up by 200,000 people this month. But unemployment remains stubbornly high. A principle reason for this is the job cuts in the public sector. This past month, public sector jobs were lost at an annual rate of…

I thank the Senator from Illinois for accommodating my ability to speak on the Senate floor this afternoon on what I consider to be a very significant and important topic. Our country is facing significant financial difficulties. In the…

As we look at where we are in job creation, the recession that we are in, in my view, there are a number of reasons that we are slow to recover, but one of them is the inability for small business to access capital.

I certainly appreciate your comments in regard to the scientific aspect of this.

I express gratitude on behalf of all Kansans for what you do.

I hope that can be explored, and perhaps in the conference between the House and the Senate, we can rectify that.

I fear that part of the potential demise of our healthcare delivery system will be related to the Government's reimbursement of healthcare providers.

rightfully so, the focus in this Congress is very much about the economy and job creation, and it is appropriate that we have before the Senate a piece of legislation dealing with small business. We know small business and entrepreneurship…

I made my position clear on the Affordable Care Act, and that is known.

National Public Radio has the strongest intellectual, artistic, and informational in-depth content of any radio network in this country because its content is not compromised by corporate ownership. I love it. But I won't lose it. It's the…

I am troubled by the long-time assertion that the success of TARP is determined by the return of taxpayer dollars.

The Republicans' budget would endanger American lives while it destroys American jobs. It will increase every American's likelihood of getting sick from unsafe meat and poultry, contaminated drinking water, and foreign food additives…

the draft proposal that you have put forth does not demonstrate the things that you said about the broad scientific evidence.

I thank the very distinguished Member from Washington and thank him for his leadership. But he knows, as well as I trust all of the Members do, that this is no way to run a government, lurching back and forth like a drunken sailor, the…

The point that I started by suggesting, and I'm sure it's not in contention, is that this is no way to run a government. We have a responsibility on the Appropriations Committee to fund these agencies, to determine our priorities, to…

In the instances that you describe, that would be an administrative action as compared to a Congressional action?

I think it would be a very sad day for particularly rural America, but for America in general when your hometown banker is not willing or capable of making home loans.

I am not one who is willing to postpone this debate.

Short of overall GSE reform, what steps could we take today short of that 2-year period that Secretary Geithner mentions that would encourage capital formation, the return of the private sector into the housing market?