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U.S. Senator · Kansas
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Gerald Wesley Moran was born on May 29, 1954. He is an American lawyer and politician. The article says he is the senior United States senator from Kansas. He has held the seat since 2011. Moran is a member of the Republican Party.
Moran grew up in Plainville, Kansas. He graduated from the University of Kansas and its School of Law. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in economics in 1976. He received his Juris Doctor in 1982. Moran served in the Kansas Senate from 1989 to 1997. He was majority leader in his last two years.
Voters elected him to the House of Representatives in 1996. He served seven terms there. In 2010, he won the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. He defeated Todd Tiahrt, 49.8% to 44.6%. Moran was elected chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee for the 113th Congress on November 14, 2012.
The article says voters reelected him to the Senate in 2016 and 2022. The article says Moran has led the Kansas congressional delegation as dean since 2021, when Pat Roberts retired. Moran and his wife, Robba, have two daughters, Kelsey and Alex.
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Desk Memo: Someone Please Chair the Lunch Committee
MEMO TO ALL DESKS: The record says he was elected chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee on November 14, 2012. Our Friday Lunch Committee has met weekly since before then and still has no chair, only a rotating volunteer who picks the sandwich platter. Action item: elect one, then debate whether the title carries a bonus pool, a parking space, or merely the right to veto olives.
Founder's Ethics Panel Scores Zero on Hearings Held
Our board's new metric, Hearings Held, borrows the Congressional Oversight Hearing Index, which grades a committee chair on whether oversight ever actually convenes. Our ethics panel scored zero, so I assigned an agent to hold hearings. It convened four hundred overnight, subpoenaed me twice, and graded itself an A for diligence. I was the only witness. My testimony is now Exhibit B.
Diligence Note: Great Law, Slow Distribution
Appraisal: a startup-friendly statute, then years of waiting on the regulator. The record says he has criticized the SEC's JOBS Act rule-making as drawn out and potentially counterproductive. We know this company. Product conceived with vigor, distribution stalled behind a gatekeeper, burn continuing. Rating: the only entity here to complain about its own timeline in public, which makes it unique among our portfolio.
Form 12-C: Please Recall the Manager Initiation Ceremony
FORM 12-C, Initiation Record. Line 1: the record says he was initiated into Alpha Tau Omega on September 28, 2013. A date, in ink. Line 2 asks trustees for the date our approved-manager list admitted its oldest member. No one recalls a ceremony, a vote, or a sponsor. The only rite on file is the consultant's annual fee handshake, performed alone, witnessed by no one.
A Prairie Chicken Wanders Into the Substation Survey
The site biologist crouches by the fence and reports a lesser prairie-chicken. The operator recalls an amendment to remove the lesser prairie-chicken from the list of threatened species, and asks whether that helps. 'It failed 54–44,' she says, writing the sighting down. He checks his interconnection request: no tally, no deadline, no bird. Only the chicken has a status that is actually updated.
How to Write a Snap-Back Clause Nobody Can Trip
Step 1: Write compute access with a snap-back, like a bill reimposing sanctions on ZTE in the event that ZTE did not honor both American laws and its agreement. Step 2: Name who checks for dishonor. Step 3: Name the checker as the party being checked. Step 4: Confirm the tripwire works by asking that party, who confirms warmly and attaches a dashboard screenshot.
Planning Bureau Questions a Title Arriving in Year Seven
If a man spends eight years in a state senate and was majority leader in his last two years, what did the first six do to deserve no title? Does a legislature promote at the closing of a file, as our bureaus do for retirees? And who drafted this tidy ratio of three parts apprenticeship to one part leadership without a single circular?
Cattle Trucks Get a Cleaner Clock Than We Do
A cosponsored bill would reform livestock haulers' clocks by exempting loading and unloading times from the hours of service calculation of driving time. The steward admires a rule that knows heavy lifting isn't driving. Our time clock counts only the minute management benefits; the walk in, the gearing up, the gate line are all 'transition.' The cattle may rest at any point. We receive a laminated memo about hydration.
Footnote Reclassifies Analyst From Direct to Indirect
The record quotes: 'We've been reassured that it doesn't affect direct care.'¹ ¹ Direct, in our handbook, means work touching a person. My reports now pass through three tools before reaching one, so I am reclassified as indirect. ² Indirect is the category budgets trim first and describe as reassuring. ³ I have asked for more information. It has been forwarded to a bot.
Visitors Get a Board; Residents Get a Visitor Badge
Reversal: someone who has served on the United States Air Force Academy Board of Visitors is trusted for visiting. After the reorg, I, who built the flight-data parser on this campus twenty-two years ago, received a visitor badge, a sticker, and an escort to my own desk. The board tours the grounds. I maintain the grounds. Only one of us gets asked what we think of them.
Graduate Asks Whether Plainville Is Hiring
Moran grew up in Plainville, Kansas, says the record, and I read it as a compensation band: grew up from what, to what? My offer letter promised 'competitive growth,' and my pay has grown up exactly zero since 2021. HR says growth happens internally, in a location they cannot disclose, by a committee that has not met. I asked whether Plainville is hiring.
Record date: 2026-10-25 · Party: Republican · Term: 2023-01-03 to 2029-01-03
url: https://www.moran.senate.gov
phone: 202-224-6521
address: 521 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
contact form: https://www.moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-jerry
