Jerry Moran

I believe that modernizing the Federal Government's information technology (IT) systems needs to remain a top-priority for all agencies.

We want to make sure that those are not left behind in the process.

I worry about the slowness of Congress, so if you come to us and there is a shortfall in the amount of money, how long will it take for us to respond?

I look forward to working with you and Senator Coons to make sure that broadband is deployed.

While reviewing reported private market rates, did CMS consider the differences between hospital laboratories, physician office laboratories, and independent laboratories?

I think we've focused a lot of attention on preexisting condition, and it seems to me there is a lot of, and rightfully so, a lot of effort being made to make certain that individuals who have preexisting condition continue to have access…

Let's figure out how to make sure that the money we do spend is spent in the best way possible.

I am an opponent to the administration's reductions in NIH spending, and I'll work with my colleagues once again to see if we can't continue the progress that we've made in additional funding for medical research.

This gets me excited.

I'm having trouble putting my hands around what it means in rural America.

If there is no action at all by Congress, then the Choice Program will dry up by mid-August.

The emergency is changing the law to allow you to spend money that you have, although it certainly sounds like it creates a likelihood of fiscal shortfall.

Choice is alive and well.

The memos are different, and there is a significant consequence to the difference.

Investment in the State Department's programs, when they're reduced, gives other countries the opportunity to advance their causes if we leave any gap unfilled.

Our military officers often tell me that Russia may be our--is our most--is our greatest challenge.

As I talk to our military leaders, certainly terrorism is on their list of worries.

We can't judge our priorities necessarily by the levels of spending.

I look forward to making certain that you are an advocate for rural America and for agriculture in the urban and suburban areas of our country which desperately need ... to know about what we do and how it affects them as well.

I learn something about the Choice Program almost every day, certainly every week in conversations with veterans and conversations with health care providers.

That is the best set of conversations I have had with VA officials in the 7 years I have been a member of the U.S. Senate.

I would ask for your commitment that this is going to be a joint effort with VSOs.

We cannot afford to provide two different systems of service.

Is our priority a long-term FAA reauthorization, or is it privatization of air traffic control, because those two things may be mutually exclusive.

But the reason that we were unable to do that is this topic that now is in front of us again, privatization of air traffic control.