Jerry Moran

when farmers break down in the field during harvest, they do not have the luxury of hauling their equipment to the shop to wait on time-consuming repairs. Instead, they uses the tools they have available at the time, a pliers, a hammer…

Today I rise to support additional trade measures important to the agriculture community. On Tuesday of this week, just several days ago, I outlined broad trade issues that need to be addressed for U.S. farmers and ranchers. These include…

I rise today to address a serious problem facing the First District of Kansas and, indeed, all of rural America. Over the past 2 years, prices for wheat and other major agricultural commodities have been in a free-fall. Cash wheat today in…

my constituents continually remind me of their frustration with the IRS. Not all the problems taxpayers have with the IRS are making headlines. The kinds of problems my constituents tell me about are less spectacular but no less…

This Medicare provision is a typical Government one-size-fits-all solution to a problem that we do not have in rural America. In Kansas, we have too few physicians, not too many. Rural communities have access to one-half the physicians of…

10 years ago, when I was mayor of the city of Alexandria, which is just across the Potomac River from us, perhaps the toughest thing that I had to do was to establish a family planning clinic for teenagers. I say I felt I had to because of…

I can certainly join in the remarks of the gentleman from New Jersey, because estate taxes are clearly a problem in our economy. As I have listened over the last 6 months as a new Member of Congress, as I listened in 6 months of…

President Clinton has achieved a balanced budget agreement that includes critical investments in education, health care, and the environment while strengthening and modernizing Medicare and Medicaid--just as he promised last year. We have…

Today, short of spending many, many hours in a library, consumers have no way of knowing if the products they buy are produced by children, and in exchange for complying with the suggested codes of conduct manufacturers will be permitted…

I would urge Members on both sides to vote for this bill. The soft landing provisions on health insurance and life insurance and educational assistance by themselves have more than sufficient merit to pass this bill. But I do think that…

Mr. Speaker, this is a shadow of its former self. We had a number of provisions in this that I think would have gone a long ways towards reforming some of the parts of the civil service system that really need to be addressed; for example…

I do believe that when the issue of abortion is concerned, it really ought not be a legislative issue; it ought to be a personal decision determined by a woman with the advice of her physician, within the context of her religion and…

I rise in support of H.R. 885, which designates the U.S. post office in New York City as the Oscar Garcia Rivera Post Office. This measure was introduced... by the gentleman from New York [Mr. Serrano] and the gentleman from New York [Mr…

Absolutely. It is time for an implementation plan. That is what has been missing from this issue.

Would the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia agree to a proposal that we set a 5-year time limit, at which time we would hope to have at least part of Lorton, perhaps the maximum detention, moved?

I am going to have to vote against this bill. I do not think it is a responsible bill in a number of areas. The one that disturbs me the most is one that is clearly not even penny wise and pound foolish; it is even penny foolish and pound…

I do not perceive it in the same way the gentleman does. If the gentleman would like to explain why it does, then I would be happy to yield the time that I have. I do not interpret it as accomplishing what the gentleman said.

we have a level of about 3,700 people in the Government Printing Office now. That is less than 50 percent of what it used to be. We used to have about 8,000 people in the Government Printing Office, and they had a reputation for doing a…

I reclaim my time to explain our objection. It was not an objection to reviewing many of our regulations, but we object to suspending those regulations in the meantime while we are reviewing them. We think that the American people want and…

But our principal point with regard to this resolution is that we should be balanced in the information we present to the American people. We ought to review the costs. Absolutely we ought to review how it is tying up States and localities…

I hope we are not paranoid, but that was not our implicit assumption. It only refers to costs, but not benefits. If it included benefits, we will not have any problem whatsoever.

to clarify for the gentleman from Massachusetts, he is not suggesting nor is his side suggesting we ought not require airbags to be included in the manufacture of U.S. automobiles.

the last image that we have of Bill is one of courage and strength, an oxygen tube in his mouth, confined to a wheelchair. But the Bill Emerson that will live on in our minds and our hearts is a gregarious man, just full of energy and…

let me respond a bit to my friend, the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Burton]. I certainly have no criticism of the statement by Ms. Shelton, who is a professional of great integrity, and particularly under the recent circumstances, I would…

All Americans celebrate the remarkable political journey from autocracy to democracy that Taiwan has made in recent years. Taiwan's presidential election in March signalled that Taiwan has joined the ranks of full-figured democracy. Taiwan…