Jerry Moran

The gentleman's amendment stops funding for--and I will quote--the Environmental Appeals Board to consider review, reject, remand, or otherwise invalidate any permit issued for Outer Continental Shelf sources located offshore of the States…

In light of the last colloquy, I find it necessary to make a few points about this underlying bill. It contains language that stops EPA from limiting greenhouse gas emissions for the term of the continuing resolution in other words…

In addition to its being a point of order, I think it should be noted that what we are talking about, nature and culture visitation, are huge industries, responsible for more than 3 million jobs. The Park Service has a backlog in deferred…

Let me give this body the top 10 reasons to defeat this amendment. Number one, these are not really taxpayer dollars. The money comes from oil drilling receipts. Number two, this amendment represents a complete elimination of a bipartisan…

I'm surprised that this continuing resolution eliminates all funding for the very successful, bipartisan-sponsored North American Wetlands Conservation Fund. It cuts $48 million. My amendment simply adds $50 million for the North American…

The scale of this reduction to EPA science shuts down EPA's STAR research grants this year and next, affecting researchers in universities throughout the Nation. The Science to Achieve Results program, whose acronym is STAR, grants money…

I want to be on the record strongly agreeing with the concept of the gentlewoman's amendment, to add $200 million to State and local grants. Our congressional districts are on either side of the Potomac River. We can also see the Blue…

Despite so much public support for allowing wild horses to remain wild, despite multiple scientific studies of their management that exposed poor analysis, fiscal waste, and no use of preventative methods, the BLM continues to use…

I oppose the gentleman's amendment that reduces the Fish and Wildlife Service by $7.5 million. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation raises private funds with minimal Federal seed dollars. It should be encouraged, not eliminated. Last…

I rise in strong opposition to this amendment that would eliminate funding for the Presidio Trust. The Presidio was in continuous use as a military post from 1776 until 1994. An Army installation, the post was closed in 1994 as part of the…

I have been on the Appropriations Committee for 17 years. Eleven of them were under Republican control, eight under a Republican President. And I'm proud of the investments that we've made in this country during those 17 years. We were…

I can understand why our colleagues from Illinois have offered this amendment. Assertions recently surfaced about the inability of the Osprey to operate in hot conditions, high altitudes or from U.S. Navy ships. But the fact is that these…

I can understand that there are a lot of jobs at stake, there's politics, there's regional economies, and so on, to be considered in this issue. I don't particularly have a dog in the hunt, but I'd like to share with you why I disagree…

Similar to the Small Business Innovation Research, this is actually one of the very most important things we can be doing within the defense budget, not just for national security, but equally for our national economy. This is the line…

Both sides of the aisle agree that the top three priorities for this Congress are jobs, jobs, jobs. But when you look at what the new majority wants to do with the Federal budget, you really have to wonder, are they serious? Now in the…

I was going to talk about jobs, but I think in light of the last address on the other side of the aisle, I will talk a bit about foreign policy and specifically Egypt. There is a quote in a play by Samuel Beckett. It's called ``Waiting for…

I thank my very, very good friend from Massachusetts. Madam Speaker, what troubles me with this debate, and I would particularly address myself to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, is that we took two votes yesterday. One was…

I appreciate the leadership of the gentleman from California. So we have several dozen new Republican Members of this House, and as a result, the first thing we are going to do is to attempt to repeal health care. Let me review what has…

Many Members on the Democratic side of the aisle, when we were considering health care reform, wanted a public option where the Federal Government would run it. It would ultimately save hundreds of billions of dollars more and, in fact, it…

One is that the new Republican majority tells us that jobs is their first priority. This will generate about 4 million jobs around the country we're told--and we can identify where they occur. And so we won't create those jobs…

Horrible tragedies like that cited by the two previous speakers remind us that there are simply too many guns too readily available to too many children. It has got to stop. On a very different subject, though, Mr. Speaker, when Ronald…

I thank the gentleman from Washington for his comments today and look forward to this bill's passage. I encourage my colleagues to vote for it. I, too, would like to recognize the work of my colleague from Kansas (Mr. Tiahrt) in his…

Economically, there is no more important issue in the State of Kansas than the success or at least the opportunity to have success in this contract bidding process. It has been a long time that we have been waiting, and I hope the…

I rise this evening in memory of my friend, Ross Beach. The House rules only allow me 5 minutes to speak, and it's difficult to summarize anyone's life in such a short time, but impossible to do justice to the life of Mr. Beach. Ross…

This appropriation bill does much to honor our Nation's commitment to veterans who have sacrificed for our freedoms, but I'm concerned that our own government is unfairly taking away freedom from those veterans. Many Americans should be…