Jerry Moran

I want the appropriations process to work, and I pledge to you to do everything I can to accomplish that goal.

I look forward to seeing if we can't accomplish that in this arena, as well.

I know that my police chiefs in New Hampshire are very frustrated, waiting to receive funding that they had expected months ago.

I'm concerned that, right now, it calls for eliminating key programs, like the COPS Anti-Heroin Task Forces.

As Senator Moran said, about 63,000 Americans last year to the opioid epidemic.

I am expressing support for your plan.

I think how you do that matters.

It seemed like a common sense way of addressing this issue.

This needs to get to law enforcement because the system that surrounds an athlete is to date insufficient to protect them.

We have reporting but no consequence and that's where this needs to have a long time come to an end.

So my interest in part is about how we make certain that when a perpetrator commits a crime against a young man or woman who is an athlete, there is a consequence such that the behavior stops.

Senator Blumenthal and I will continue to work together in a bipartisan way.

What I am trying to make certain I understand and I believe I do but wanted to confirm is that there is a reliance and therefore your relationship with USAG that is important to you, both to your families' financial circumstances as well…

How was this abuse allowed to continue over so many years? What systematically allowed it to happen?

As it turns out, much to my demise, Dr. Nassar was not a doctor, he in fact is, was, and forever shall be, a child molester, and a monster of a human being.

Every child in every sport needs to know that the adults in charge have a duty to keep them safe.

It is up to you, as powerful members of the United States Senate to hold them accountable and I believe you will.

It's an undeniable reality. We want to fight it and correct it and prevent it from happening again.

This non-disclosure agreement shows the hazards and dangers and damage that can be caused by those kinds of enforced concealment agreements.

There, multiple organizational failures to properly investigate, discipline, or remove abusers after complaints of sexual abuse are absolutely unconscionable.

How do we create a system that encourages truth-telling, speaking truth to power rather than hiding it?

Ninety-nine points the price of grain sorghum dropped in my hometown of Plainville, Kansas, on the day the tariffs were announced.

I am pleased with your leadership at USDA and the responsiveness that you and your team have had with us in trying to take care of issues that we care about at home.

So, the ability to discharge an employee now exists.

Is it your view that the VA now has the necessary tools to hold employees, including management, accountable?