Honorable Jerry Moran
United States Senator, Kansas, Republican
Senator Moran was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1997 to 2011. He sits on the following committees: Appropriations, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies; Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Environment and Public Works; Veterans’ Affairs; and Indian Affairs. The following is from the September 13, 2017, Senate floor debate on an amendment to H.R. 2819, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, offered by Senator Rand Paul (KY-R). Prior to arriving in the U.S. Senate after the election of…