Gerald Wesley Moran is an American lawyer and politician who is the senior United States senator from Kansas, a seat he has held since 2011.
53 Facts About Jerry Moran
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Jerry Moran worked in private law and was the state special assistant attorney general and deputy attorney of Rooks County.
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Jerry Moran served in the Kansas Senate from 1989 to 1997 and was majority leader for his last two years.
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Jerry Moran was elected to the House of Representatives in 1996 and spent seven terms there with little electoral opposition.
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Jerry Moran was elected to the US Senate in 2010 after defeating fellow US Representative Todd Tiahrt in a contentious primary.
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Jerry Moran was reelected to the Senate in 2016 and 2022.
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Jerry Moran became the senior senator and dean of the Kansas congressional delegation in 2021 when Pat Roberts retired from the Senate.
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Jerry Moran was born in Great Bend, Kansas, the son of Madeline Eleanor and Raymond Edwin "Ray" Jerry Moran.
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Jerry Moran attended Fort Hays State University before enrolling at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in economics in 1976.
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Jerry Moran worked as a banker before receiving his Juris Doctor from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1982.
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Jerry Moran served as an adjunct professor of political science at Fort Hays State University.
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Jerry Moran served two years as the vice president and his last two years as majority leader.
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Jerry Moran was elected to Congress in 1996 and reelected six times, never facing serious opposition in the conservative 1st district.
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Jerry Moran continues the tradition in the US Senate for all 105 counties.
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Jerry Moran was an active member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, where he served as chair of the Subcommittee on Health.
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Slate's David Weigel wrote that, despite his insistence that earmarks are a way to get members of Congress to vote for spending "we can't afford", Jerry Moran requested $19.4 million in earmarks in the 2010 budget.
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Jerry Moran was elected chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee for the 113th US Congress on November 14,2012.
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Jerry Moran oversaw the Republican gain of nine Senate seats in the 2014 United States Senate elections, resulting in the first Republican Senate majority since 2006.
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On January 5,2021, Jerry Moran announced that he would vote to certify the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count, which was to take place the following day.
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Jerry Moran was participating in the certification when Trump supporters attacked the United States Capitol.
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Jerry Moran has a lifetime rating of 86 from the American Conservative Union and a lifetime 71 rating from Club for Growth but in off election years he has a somewhat moderate score, as in 2019 when he scored 32 with Club for Growth.
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In May 2019, Jerry Moran was a cosponsor of the Transporting Livestock Across America Safely Act, a bipartisan bill introduced by Ben Sasse and Jon Tester intended to reform hours of service for livestock haulers by authorizing drivers to have the flexibility to rest at any point during their trip without it being counted against their hours of service and exempting loading and unloading times from the hours of service calculation of driving time.
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Jerry Moran opposed the Medicare reform package of 2003, unlike most congressmen from rural districts.
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In May 2011, Moran sponsored S 1058, the Pharmacy Competition and Consumer Choice Act of 2011.
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Jerry Moran voted against the July 2017 Senate health care bill.
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Jerry Moran criticized the closed-door process for developing the bill and criticized the legislation for not repealing the entire ACA.
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Since 2014, Jerry Moran has served on the United States Air Force Academy Board of Visitors.
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Since entering Congress, Jerry Moran has traveled to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan to visit deployed American forces and meet with foreign leaders.
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In March 2018, Jerry Moran was one of five Republican senators to vote against tabling a resolution spearheaded by Bernie Sanders, Chris Murphy, and Mike Lee that would have required President Trump to withdraw American troops either in or influencing Yemen within the next 30 days unless they were combating Al-Qaeda.
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In January 2019, Jerry Moran was one of 11 Republican senators to vote to advance legislation intended to block Trump's intent to lift sanctions against three Russian companies.
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In February 2019, amid a report by the Commerce Department that ZTE had been caught illegally shipping goods of American origin to Iran and North Korea, Jerry Moran was one of seven senators to sponsor a bill reimposing sanctions on ZTE in the event that ZTE did not honor both American laws and its agreement with the Trump administration.
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In March 2019, Jerry Moran was one of 12 Republican senators to vote to block Trump's national emergency declaration that would have granted him access to $3.6 billion in military construction funding to build border barriers.
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In May 2019, Jerry Moran was one of eight senators to cosponsor the Global Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing Act, a bill that would develop new institutes that supported American manufacturing in technology and grant more federal investment in the national network such as preexisting institutes being made to compete globally as well as continue American economic and national security.
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In 2001, Jerry Moran voted against the No Child Left Behind Act because he felt it did not afford sufficient flexibility to schools.
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In 2017, Jerry Moran voted to confirm Betsy DeVos as United States Secretary of Education.
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Jerry Moran has an "A" rating from the National Rifle Association for his consistent support of pro-gun policies.
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In 2013, Jerry Moran joined other Republicans in saying they would filibuster any Democrat's proposals that Republicans considered a threat to the Second Amendment.
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In 2016, Jerry Moran voted against the Feinstein Amendment, which would have banned suspected terrorists from acquiring guns.
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In January 2019, Jerry Moran was one of 31 Republican senators to cosponsor the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, a bill introduced by John Cornyn and Ted Cruz that would grant individuals with concealed carry privileges in their home state the right to exercise this right in any other state with concealed carry laws while concurrently abiding by that state's laws.
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In 2015 Jerry Moran voted against a Senate amendment acknowledging that human activity contributes to climate change.
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In 2009, Jerry Moran voted against the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which would have established a cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change.
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Jerry Moran is a strong supporter of the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
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Jerry Moran sponsored the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, known as the JOBS Act, legislation to expand crowdfunding options for startups.
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Jerry Moran is an advocate of increased engagement between Washington and the Startup community and has spoken on the issue at events like South by Southwest and the Consumer Electronics Show.
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Jerry Moran opposed the Protect Intellectual Property Act and Stop Online Piracy Act.
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In 2017, Jerry Moran voted to repeal FCC Internet privacy rules that blocked internet providers from sharing or selling data on customers' private data without the customer's permission.
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Jerry Moran has cosponsored legislation to ban abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy.
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Jerry Moran voted in favor of making harming a fetus a crime.
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In September 2018, Jerry Moran voted for a package of 70 Senate bills that cost $8.4 billion and altered programs across multiple agencies, as part of a bipartisan effort to prevent opioids from being shipped through the US Postal Service and to grant doctors the ability to prescribe medications designed to wean opioid addictions.
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On May 28,2021, Jerry Moran voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the January 6 United States Capitol attack.
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Jerry Moran lived in Hays for most of his political career.
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Jerry Moran is a former trustee of the Eisenhower Foundation, serves on the board of trustees of the Fort Hays State University Endowment Association, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Coronado Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
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Jerry Moran was the 2008 Honorary Chair of the Law Enforcement Torch Run of the Kansas Special Olympics.