Tag Archives: Jerry Moran

Gun Owners of America: Senator Moran Bill Would Cut Funding of UN Small Arms Treaty

Obama Administration Pushing UN Gun Control Senator Moran Bill Would Cut Funding of UN Small Arms Treaty  Kansas Senator Jerry Moran introduced legislation to prohibit the Obama administration from negotiating away our gun rights as part of the UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The ATT is a backdoor attempt to impose massive restrictions on U.S. [...]

WSJ: Visa Plan Poses Bipartisan Test

You might think, in an election year in which immigration will be a political football, that there couldn’t possibly be bipartisan agreement on fixing any part of the current immigration system. You would be wrong. There is one area—expanding the number of visas given to highly skilled foreigners, particularly those who learned math and science [...]

The Daily Caller: Rural kids, parents angry about Labor Dept. rule banning farm chores

A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves. The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to children working on [...]

POLITICO: Senate gets bipartisan on spending

With the blessing of top Republican leaders, the Senate Appropriations Committee gave quick approval Thursday to spending allocations for the coming year—consistent with the August debt deal but also significantly higher than the levels set by the House GOP for domestic programs. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), also a [...]

Topeka Capital Journal: Yoder, Moran bash GSA ‘circus’

A U.S. senator and a congressman from Kansas criticized Tuesday federal officials’ abuse of public trust by wasting taxpayer funding at a training conference for government workers. An audit shows the 300-person General Services Administration event at a luxury casino in Henderson, Nev., cost $820,000 and violated federal policy and law. The five-day affair in [...]

The Second Amendment Sovereignty Act

Senator Jerry Moran: I introduced legislation this week to protect the rights of American gun owners from being undermined by a United Nations Arms Trade Treaty. The Second Amendment Sovereignty Act, S.2205, would prohibit the Obama Administration from using the “voice, vote, and influence” of the United States during Arms Trade Treaty negotiations to restrict the [...]