65 Facts About Jim Moran

Jim Moran is of Irish descent and is the son of James Moran Sr.

Jim Moran was born in Buffalo, New York, the eldest of seven siblings in a Roman Catholic family of Irish descent.

Jim Moran grew up in Natick, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.

Jim Moran's parents were Dorothy and James Moran Sr.

Jim Moran played college football on an athletic scholarship at the College of the Holy Cross, where his father had been a football star in the early 1930s.

Jim Moran worked for five years at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as a budget officer before serving as a senior specialist for budgetary and fiscal policy at the Library of Congress.

In 1979, Jim Moran was elected to the City Council of Alexandria, Virginia.

The incident stemmed from charges that Jim Moran had used money from a political action committee to rent a tuxedo and buy Christmas cards; both of which were later judged by the Commonwealth Attorney to "fit the definition of constituent services", and were dismissed.

Jim Moran was reelected in 1988, and resigned after he was elected to Congress in November 1990.

In 1990, Jim Moran first won election to the United States House of Representatives, defeating five-term Republican incumbent Stan Parris.

Jim Moran responded by portraying McSlarrow as a drug abuser, referring to the candidate's admitted use of cocaine and marijuana while at the University of Virginia.

Jim Moran was helped by the 1990s redistricting, which cut out some of the more Republican-leaning areas of his district.

In 1998 and 2000, Moran faced Republican and flat tax advocate Demaris H Miller.

Jim Moran won with 68 percent of the vote to Elmore's 30 percent.

In November 2009, Ellmore announced he would again challenge Jim Moran, but dropped out of the race four months later.

Jim Moran responded by commending Murray's military service, while saying that he used the phrase in relation to Murray not having engaged in "local civic engagement" and not having served in local office.

In 2012, Jim Moran faced another primary challenge, from Navy veteran Bruce Shuttleworth.

Jim Moran represented Virginia's 8th congressional district, an area in Northern Virginia that is just across the Potomac River from Washington, DC; the district includes Arlington county, and the cities of Alexandria, Falls Church and parts of Fairfax County.

Jim Moran's district is located in the Dulles Technology Corridor and is the home of many federal defense contractors as well as a significant number of those who work in the information technology industry.

Jim Moran was a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the largest caucus operating within the Democratic caucus, which works to advance progressive issues and opinions.

Jim Moran joined the caucus prior to the 111th Congress.

In 1998, during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Jim Moran was one of only 31 House Democrats to support launching a formal impeachment inquiry into Bill Clinton.

Jim Moran eventually decided not to vote for impeachment, explaining that Clinton had not compromised the country's security, and that he still respected him for what he had accomplished as President.

Jim Moran was voted High Technology Legislator of the Year by the Information Technology Industry Council and was voted into the American Electronics Association Hall of Fame for his work on avoiding the Year 2000 crisis and his support of the IT Industry and defense contractors in Northern Virginia.

Jim Moran cosponsored failed bills in 2005 to provide the District of Columbia with a House seat and to prohibit slaughter of horses.

The day after the Virginia Tech Massacre in 2007, Moran told a local radio station that the Federal Assault Weapons Ban should be reinstated, blaming the National Rifle Association of America and President George W Bush for blocking gun control legislation.

Shortly before the June 2008 Virginia Democratic primary, Jim Moran endorsed Senator Barack Obama of Illinois for the presidency over New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Clinton.

In May 2009, Jim Moran introduced a bill that would restrict broadcast advertisements for erectile dysfunction or male enhancement medication.

In February 2010, on the House floor, Jim Moran called for the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the military policy of discharging soldiers on active duty who are openly homosexual.

Jim Moran assisted in authorizing the replacement of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge, a bridge between Alexandria, Virginia, and Prince George's County, Maryland, which had gained a reputation over the years among Northern Virginia residents as the site of numerous rush-hour traffic jams.

On March 9,2010, Jim Moran was named to succeed Norm Dicks of Washington as the chairman of the House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee.

Jim Moran said he was excited to be able to play a role in protecting the environment and conserving natural resources.

Jim Moran became the ranking member of the subcommittee after the Democratic Party lost control of the House of Representatives following the November 2010 elections.

On March 16,2012, Jim Moran was arrested outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington, DC, at a protest against human rights abuses perpetrated by the Sudanese government, specifically bombings in the Nuba Mountains and refusal to allow humanitarian aid organizations access to refugees.

Jim Moran was charged with disorderly conduct and released, along with George Clooney and several others.

On March 27,2012, Jim Moran introduced the AUTISM Educators Act that would implement a five-year pilot program allowing public schools to partner with colleges, universities, and non-profit organizations to promote teaching skills for educators working with high functioning students with autism.

Jim Moran occasionally appeared on MSNBC, usually on Hardball with Chris Matthews and The Ed Show.

Jim Moran did not seek re-nomination to Congress in 2014, retiring after 24 years.

Jim Moran voted against the Defense of Marriage Act, the Federal Marriage Amendment, and was in favor of repealing the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy.

Jim Moran supported gun control, voting for the Brady Bill and supporting a reinstatement of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban.

Jim Moran voted to expand research of embryonic stem cells and to allow minors to go across state lines to receive abortions.

On immigration, Jim Moran supported a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants and did not support decreasing the number of legal immigrants allowed into the country or the enforcement of federal immigration laws by state and local police.

Jim Moran was given an overall immigration reduction grade of D by NumbersUSA.

In September 2009, Jim Moran was one of 75 members of the House of Representatives to vote no on a bill to eliminate any federal funds going to community organizer ACORN.

Jim Moran introduced a bill signed into law that allows FERS employees to buy back credit from a lapse in federal service toward annuity payments, with the goal of attracting individuals from the private sector back to public service.

Jim Moran authored a law that allows a federal worker's unused sick leave to count toward their annuity.

Jim Moran listed the environment as one of his top issues, citing his high marks from the League of Conservation Voters and the Sierra Club.

Jim Moran used his positions as a member of the Appropriations Committee and as chairman of the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee to allocate federal funding for hiking trails and wildlife reserves in his district.

In 2010, Jim Moran expressed discontent with President Barack Obama's decision to allow oil drilling off the coast of the United States.

Jim Moran voted for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Troubled Asset Relief Program Reform and Accountability Act.

Jim Moran called Social Security "a safe, stable, and dependable source of financial assistance for retirees and their families," and strongly opposes privatizing Social Security, saying that it would "cripple the system".

Jim Moran voted against authorizing the Iraq War in 2002 and did not support the troop increase for the Afghanistan War proposed by President Barack Obama in 2009, saying first that he appreciated Obama's "careful consideration regarding the US's engagement in Afghanistan", but later defining the issues on which he and the President disagreed:.

Jim Moran voted against BRAC 2005 which would move over 20,000 workers to Ft.

Jim Moran was in favor of stronger prohibitions against animal fighting.

In October 2014, Jim Moran received the Lord Houghton Award from Cruelty Free International for his service and contribution to animal welfare.

The Lieutenant Governor of Virginia at the time, Tim Kaine, joined Republican lawmakers in calling for a House Ethics Committee investigation into the loan, saying that Jim Moran had made "an error in judgment" by accepting it.

Jim Moran had credit cards with us, he was having financial difficulties; this put him in a better position to be able to pay us back from a cash-flow standpoint.

Jim Moran said that he was unaware of "who made donations", and "how much they gave", and therefore was not affected by the donations when allocating the funding.

Schweizer alleged that Jim Moran made more than 90 trades that day.

Jim Moran defended himself by citing that the trades were made in the midst of the Great Recession and that all one had to do was turn on the television to see that stock prices were dropping fast.

Jim Moran struck me as being unstable and joking, and for only that reason did I humor him.

Virginia Tech announced in April 2016 that Jim Moran had joined the School of Public and International Affairs as professor of practice.

Jim Moran remarried in 2004 to real estate developer LuAnn Bennett.

Jim Moran's brother, Brian Moran, is a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and the head of the Virginia Democratic Party between early 2011 and December 2012.

Jim Moran was an unsuccessful primary candidate for Governor of Virginia in the 2009 election.