Jerry Moran

There is concern that the President's budget request... is $12 million below the 2015 enacted level.

I have been an advocate of lifting the economic embargo against Cuba for the past 15 years.

Mr. Secretary, is a clear that those countries in the first category, the ones you're now dealing with, is a clear that they are violating the OIE standards?

Why is there a $44 million reduction in technical assistance funding?

Mr. Secretary, please let us know how we can help, either resources or encouraging countries to comply with those OIE standards.

Are you considering an extension of that deadline?

I am sure that you have heard as I have about the importance of crop insurance.

I would certainly be willing to consider lengthening that time.

Where is the FDA in the process of approving the backlogged applications for new sunscreen products?

What it brings to my mind is that getting us from this point to the certainty by December seems pretty far stretched to me, and a delay in the final implementation or the final effect of the rule is something you should consider.

My understanding is that the FDA has announced something they are calling guidance as of this morning in regard to this issue.

I just want you to know that this subcommittee is going to be very actively engaged.

Can you bring us up to date on the status? What approval process success have we had in the effort to combat Ebola?

If it is transformational, is there something that we will spend less money on because we are doing things in a new way?

All the rest of us are certainly reluctant to criticize that circumstance.

I want to thank you for your public service and your efforts to promote the health and safety of American consumers.

What is the status of that process now at the Department of Health and Human Services and your role?

In the hopes that the human trafficking legislation can proceed, we are going to allow Senator Leahy the opportunity first to ask questions so he can get to the Floor.

Their great concern is the limits of Government and how it limits their ability to create jobs and stifles innovation through unnecessary and burdensome regulations.

I would tell you, Mr. Chrisman, in Kansas, the most common conversation I have with a Chamber of Commerce executive, an economic developer, a mayor, a city councilmember, when you are visiting a community and you want to talk about what is…

It does not solve the problem permanently, but it certainly solves the immediate problem.

The other 85 percent could have an additional provider already providing the service.

The consequence there is that fewer Americans in rural America will be served by broadband.

Locally-grown businesses are important to rural economies and enhance the quality-of-life for rural residents.

Rural Development is largely tasked with maintaining and improving that quality of life.