Jerry Moran

Republican · KS · U.S. Senate

Bio

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. Previously, he was a member of the United States House of Representatives and the Kansas Senate. He is a member of the Republican Party.

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Record of service

In office: 29.6 years
Chambers: House 14y, Senate 15.6y
First took office: 1997 (10 terms)
Seniority: 13 of 100 by time served
Age: 72
Senate class: 3 · senior senator

District offices

Hays, KS · 785-628-6401
Olathe, KS · 913-393-0711
Pittsburg, KS · 620-232-2286
Wichita, KS · 316-269-9259
Manhattan, KS · 785-539-8973
Garden City, KS · 620-260-3025

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Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.78

Healthcare

R+0.31

Immigration & Border

R+0.70

Guns

R+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.97

Environment & Energy

R+0.82

Crime & Policing

R+0.37

Defense & Veterans

R+0.45

Economy & Labor

R+0.81

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.29

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.57

Education

R+0.54

Government & Democracy

R+0.49

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+0.77

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Jerry Moran's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

92%Closest

70%

36%

27%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

23%

Communist Party USA

22%

On the political map

Jerry Moran (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Moransits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Moran's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.