Jerry Moran News

Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, co-sponsor of Exam Fairness bill, tells bankers she will keep fighting for an independent exam review structure Rep. Shelley Moore Capito spoke to more than 1,000 bankers attending ABA's 2012 Government Relations Summit about the outlook for the Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act, H.R. 3461, ... (more)

Contrary to popular rhetoric, the majority of Kansans support immigration reform, speakers told hundreds gathered at a town hall meeting in Kansas City, Kan., on Saturday.

Kansas Republican Sen. Pat Roberts is setting his sights on raising $5 million in his bid to return to Washington for another six-year term, even with no opposition on the immediate horizon.

The recent outcry against the Kansas Legislature's whack at higher education funding came too late to prevent a short-sighted and misguided assault on state-supported colleges and universities.

This Saturday, 36 organizations and over 700 community, faith and labor leaders will travel to Kansas City for a People's Town Hall on Immigration Reform, the largest event of it's kind in Kansas history.

When the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty opened for signature on June 3, 67 nations signed immediately.

Steve Case, co-founder of America Online and now chief executive of the investment firm Revolution, spoke about immigration reform outside the White House on Tuesday.

U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas was right when he criticized the new farm bill that passed his chamber last week for price supports that benefit primarily Southern crops such as peanuts and rice.

With the NSA wiretapping scandal dominating media, the IRS targeting scandal has taken a back seat.

THE LEDE: An unlikely duo of a senior Democrat and young Tea Party Republican will introduce legislation on Friday aimed at reining in the government's surveillance programs.

Sen. Jerry Moran has filed an amendment to the Senate's sweeping immigration bill that is intended to make the United States a more attractive place for foreign entrepreneurs to stay and expand their businesses.

U.S. Senator Jerry Moran, who serves on the Senate Rural Health Caucus, today introduced S. 1143, the Protecting Access to Rural Therapy Services Act, to make sure that rural and other patients have access to a full range of outpatient therapeutic services in their own communities.

Once again Democrats tried to get a bill passed in the House of Representatives to fund an expansion of U.S. prisons in order to house terror suspects in the U.S. heartland instead of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Alfalfa growers may be closer to gaining federal crop insurance coverage on par with that available to growers of other farm commodities.

The higher tuition just forced on state universities by the Legislature effectively is a tax increase that will deepen loan debt for some Kansans and put college out of reach for others.

Lee Fang has a great piece up at The Nation this week detailing new evidence of the unrelenting hypocrisy of Republican legislators on the Affordable Care Act.

TOPEKA – Kansas higher education officials said Thursday that the Legislature's proposed funding cuts to public colleges and universities will hamper their ability to meet the business community's needs for highly-skilled workers and will hurt the state's economy as a result.

Wind companies are ramping up their effort to expand financing opportunities for renewable energy projects even though some in the industry fear a Trojan horse move by conservatives to undermine the prized production tax credit.

The Senate will convene today, Monday, June 3, at 2:00 pm and begin a period of morning business.

The bill has big problems, not just with me but with enough members of the US Senate to block a vote.