{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ID=D8CB4543-5D32-445C-B8EE-1550DAFCFAF3", "Sen. Moran on Senate Floor: We Must Work Together To Provide Resources to Ukraine, Secure Southern Border", "2023-10-05", "2023", "2023-10", "Republican", "Senate", "KS", "Jerry Moran", "M000934", "www.moran.senate.gov", "moran", "https://www.moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) spoke on the Senate Floor regarding the urgent need to work together to address the challenges facing our country at home and abroad including securing our southern border and providing resources to assist Ukraine in their fight against Russia.\n\n\u201cFormer Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a fellow Kansan, warns of our government dysfunction at a moment in history in which our nation confronts graver threats to its security than it has in decades, perhaps ever,\u201d said Sen. Moran. \u201cOur adversaries pay attention to what we do or don\u2019t do. Our action or inaction can increase the trust placed in us by our allies or it can embolden our adversaries. We need to demonstrate resolve; resolve in the support of allies and resolve in the resistance to enemies.\u201d\n\n\u201cDuring my time in the U.S. Senate, I have never been angrier or more sullen than those few days in which our country left Afghanistan,\u201d said Sen. Moran. \u201cOur unprepared actions and void of leadership resulted in the deaths of U.S. servicemembers and it stranded thousands of Afghan allies behind enemy lines. Those few days may have been among the most costly in emboldening those who seek our country\u2019s demise. I fear today we are about to again demonstrate to the world our feckless ambivalence to lead.\u201d\n\n\u201cThere is no question that the spending path we have been on is not sustainable,\u201d continued Sen. Moran. \u201cWe are on a different path with the appropriations bills that have passed in committee that stop spending increases. These are important decisions, but we don\u2019t need to manufacture a crisis to make a point. The crisis doesn\u2019t solve the spending problem.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe know the dangerous nature of our world when we see what China is doing and what its intentions seem to be; when we know what\u2019s taking place in Iran and their efforts around the globe; when Russia invades a neighboring country\u2019s borders; and when North Korea fires missiles,\u201d said Sen. Moran. \u201cWe have united as a nation numerous times in our history, and we need to return to those circumstances. And that can happen if there is leadership here in Congress to do so. Now is the time to lower the temperature and find common ground that puts us in a position that we can be optimistic about our nation\u2019s future. Our future is bright, but it is only bright when we work together.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe must send the message that we are a reliable partner to Ukraine, and encourage allies around the world to be helpful to Ukraine,\u201d continued Sen. Moran. \u201cAs we work to enhance Ukraine\u2019s chance for success in defeating Putin, we should also resolutely move forward in ending the failure to protect our own country and own border. \u201cOur borders need desperate attention and its another national security issue.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe have work to do,\u201d said Sen. Moran. \u201cWe can look the other way or we can decide that we\u2019re going to do what is right. We can decide that it would be nice to be popular at the moment, but it would be better to be right in the long term. I\u2019m an optimist. This week and the next several weeks can be times of good work for the American people and a safer and more secure United States and world.\u201d\n\nClick HERE to View Sen. Moran\u2019s Full Remarks\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:43:12Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ID=D8CB4543-5D32-445C-B8EE-1550DAFCFAF3"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7376661524176598, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}