Jerry Moran

Are we not discouraging some things that are very noble in our society, if there is any criteria based upon what we would call 'success' by those college graduates?

The President has directed that the Department develop a new college rating system for the 2015-2016 school year.

Simply put, early learning is essential to the success of our students and society.

There is no doubt about the important role education plays in a child's life.

Mr. Moran has been the one constant. There have been changes of leadership, a lot of change of staff, but Mr. Moran has always been here, and he has been a good friend.

Are there ways to help a veteran who has an entrepreneurial idea pursue the American dream in their garage or their barn, take an idea to market?

If there are ways that we can work with the Department of Labor to create an environment in which a startup, a new business origination, it very well may be a veteran's choice, but may not have the tools to accomplish that.

A concept that I have a lot of interest in is entrepreneurship, the ability to start a business.

We continue to have a significant challenge in this country with our veterans returning.

I think we use that excuse way too often in Congress, in the administration. 'Well, that is an unintended consequence.'

We need to work together on ways to get people back on the job and back in the workforce.

I applaud the efforts in the Senate and the passage of the bipartisan bill on Monday.

I hope the House follows suit.

We all know we have a struggling economy and unemployment remains way too high.

We have to work with consistent data. And we have to work with people who have more credibility than I do with a lot of these constituency groups such as Mr. Simpson.

Sometimes we need a political balance too.

So we are trying to maintain the ecology, and you can see Mr. Simpson really is reasonable.

And BLM is not being sufficiently aggressive in terms of sterilizing the mares?

I deeply value our friendship, Mike. I really do. It has been a pleasure to work with you.

Tim Aiken, my legislative director, just reminded me that MS13, the violent drug and sex trafficking gang in northern Virginia was actually operating out of the refuge in Prince William County because there was so little capacity for law…

A terrific program. Maybe we can put a word in for it when we talk about NEH in the report.

I appreciate your accommodating all of them.

I want to thank Mr. Carlson for managing the Inter Tribal Buffalo Council.

I know the Chairman, Ms. McCollum, myself, and Mr. Simpson have all wanted stronger contract support services.

I was interested in knowing if you could talk about the goals of that program and how many new NCI community oncology research programs, projects you might expect to find.