
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.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 29.7 years
- Chambers
- House 14y, Senate 15.7y
- First took office
- 1997 (10 terms)
- Seniority
- 13 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 72
- Senate class
- 3 · senior senator
- 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
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
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.
On the political map
Jerry Moran (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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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
- Senate Committee on Indian Affairscenter · 11 members
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligencecenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestrycenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 28 membersCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (Chairman)Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related AgenciesState, Foreign Operations, and Related ProgramsTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related AgenciesAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related AgenciesDepartment of Defense
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
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.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
MAGA Senator Changes His Tune on ICE Just Weeks Before MidtermsAre Republicans at risk of losing their seats in the upcoming midterm elections about to start changing their tune on President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration operations?Kansas Senator Roger Marshall issued a rare rebuke of ICE on Wednesday after local l…
The New Republic · September 24, 2026
Senate Rejects 'Dangerously Weak' Clarity Act on CryptoThe US Senate voted not to advance a major cryptocurrency bill on Tuesday, heeding warnings from critics that it would fail to regulate the volatile financial asset effectively and would allow President Donald Trump to continue profiting lavishly from it with…
Common Dreams · September 15, 2026
GOP Senator Pushes Back After Trump Threatens to Ban Bombardier Sales in US, Says Canadian Aircraft Maker…Sen. Jerry Moran urged Trump to protect Bombardier’s Kansas operations, citing 1,500 jobs, as U.S.-Canada trade tensions escalate.
Biztoc.com · September 9, 2026
Why Trump’s Angry New Tirade at Canada Is About to Backfire On HimCould Donald Trump’s destructive and ham-handed tariff wars paradoxically end up reminding Americans what’s good about trade and economic interdependence with other countries? A bizarre turn in Trump’s deranged hostilities with Canada shows what this might lo…
The New Republic · September 8, 2026
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