Jerry Moran

I think what happened there sent one more message to those you regulate about needing to be fearful of their examiners.

Congress has the responsibility to determine what laws should be in place, but that has to be in tandem with the regulator's ability to effectively carry that out.

Let me make sure I understand the answer to the question. You know of no instance in which a banker has alleged that there was retribution, and if there was--and since there was not, there has been no evidence that there has been a…

Do any of you oppose this legislation for this FFIEC Ombudsman on behalf of financial institutions?

I have introduced Senate bill 727, Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act. It is a bipartisan piece of legislation.

While you are in the chair, Mr. Brown, let me thank you for the cooperation that you have extended to me and working to get S. 635 accomplished.

We need to declare a war on Ebola.

You do not believe you have that authority to make that determination now?

Mr. Secretary, thank you very much for your presence as I said earlier.

I was surprised, as an author of this legislation, that the pilot programs were so narrow to begin with.

Does there seem to be any impediment toward accomplishing that?

Project ARCH's congressional authority expires August 29, 2014.

Our seven Regents Universities in Kansas...are all expressing concern...the particular issue that Senator Crapo just mentioned in regard to other accounts is a significant issue for them and for their students.

I have been a Member of Congress in both the House and in the Senate, and in my entire time as a Member of Congress I have served on either the House or Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee. Over that time I have worked with nine Secretaries…

Commissioner Jankovsky found the State maps inaccurate, overstating the area of sage grouse habitat. The map he commissioned for Garfield County showed 70 percent less habitat for sage grouse. Whose map should the Federal Government accept…

The focus has to be on the people who provide patient care, not the folks who get in the way of that patient care.

The money is going in the wrong place.

If you live long distances from a VA facility, that the VA will provide that care for you.

I hope you will consider me and other Members of this Committee allies as you try to develop a strategy and implement that strategy which benefits those who have served our country.

We do nothing to solve the problems of the American people because the Senate does not function.

When the VA fails to provide those fee-for-services to those veterans, most likely what happens is that veteran gets no service at all.

We ought not adjourn for an August recess in the absence of us reaching a conclusion.

It would be terrible on the part of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives if we failed to reach an agreement to conclude this work.

We need a plan. We want to help you implement it.

The failure to do so would be terrible for the U.S. Senate, but more importantly, terrible for the veterans of our country.