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'''James Patrick Moran Jr.''' (born May 16, 1945) is an American politician who served as the mayor of [[Alexandria, Virginia]] from 1985 to 1990, and as the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] for {{ushr|VA|8}} (including the cities of [[Falls Church, Virginia|Falls Church]] and [[Alexandria, Virginia|Alexandria]], all of [[Arlington County, Virginia|Arlington County]], as well as a portion of [[Fairfax County, Virginia|Fairfax County]]) from 1991 to 2015. ▼
▲'''James Patrick Moran Jr.''' (born May 16, 1945) is an American politician who served as the mayor of [[Alexandria, Virginia]], from 1985
A member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]], Moran chaired the [[New Democrat Coalition]] from 1997 until 2001. He is of [[Irish American|Irish]] descent and is the son of [[James Moran Sr.]], a former professional football player, and the brother of [[Brian Moran]], former chairman of the [[Democratic Party of Virginia]].
==Early life, education, and business career==▼
Moran, the eldest of seven children, was born in [[Buffalo, New York]], and grew up in [[Natick, Massachusetts]], a suburb of Boston. His parents were Dorothy (née Dwyer) and [[James Moran Sr.]], a professional [[American football|football]] player for the [[Boston Redskins]] in 1935 and 1936; outside of football he worked as a probation officer.<ref name="brian moran campaign">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/10/AR2009021003914_2.html?sid=ST2009021004032|title=A Time to Reevaluate Family Ties|last=Gardner|first=Amy|date=February 11, 2009|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=April 16, 2010|archive-date=September 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928083131/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/10/AR2009021003914_2.html?sid=ST2009021004032|url-status=live}}</ref> Both his father and mother were Roosevelt Democrats and supporters of the [[New Deal]]. Moran attended [[Marian High School (Massachusetts)|Marian High School]] in [[Framingham, Massachusetts]].<ref>[http://www.nationaljournal.com/pubs/almanac/2006/people/va/rep_va08.htm Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023180721/http://www.nationaljournal.com/pubs/almanac/2006/people/va/rep_va08.htm |date=October 23, 2012 }}, nationaljournal.com; accessed September 3, 2015.</ref><ref>[http://wvtf.org/post/where-were-they-born-run Where Were they Born to Run?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012213040/http://wvtf.org/post/where-were-they-born-run |date=October 12, 2013 }}, wvtf.org; accessed September 3, 2015.</ref>▼
Moran played [[college football]] on an athletic scholarship at the [[College of the Holy Cross]],<ref name="Washington Post bio">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/james-moran-d-va/gIQAbgrNAP_topic.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927170453/http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/james-moran-d-va/gIQAbgrNAP_topic.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 27, 2012|title=Biography of James Moran|newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=March 6, 2012|first=Ed|last=O'Keefe}}</ref> where his father had been a football star in the early 1930s. Moran received his B.A. in economics in 1967. After attending [[Baruch College]] of the [[City University of New York]] from 1967 to 1968, he received a [[Master of Public Administration]] from the [[University of Pittsburgh]] in 1970. After college, Moran followed his father's footstep to become an amateur boxer, and during a campaign in 1992, he admitted that he had used [[marijuana]] during his early twenties.<ref name="marijuana">{{cite news|last=Baker|first=Peter|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1030794.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126234401/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1030794.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 26, 2013|title=Moran Tried Marijuana In His Early Twenties; Representative Says Activity Less Serious Than Rival's|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=October 20, 1992}}</ref> Following a brief career as a stockbroker, Moran moved to [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name="Washington Post bio"/>▼
▲Moran was born in [[Buffalo, New York]], the eldest of seven
▲Moran played [[college football]] on an athletic scholarship at the [[College of the Holy Cross]],<ref name="Washington Post bio">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/james-moran-d-va/gIQAbgrNAP_topic.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927170453/http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/james-moran-d-va/gIQAbgrNAP_topic.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 27, 2012|title=Biography of James Moran|newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=March 6, 2012|first=Ed|last=O'Keefe}}</ref> where his father had been a football star in the early 1930s. Moran received his [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in [[economics]] in 1967. After attending [[Baruch College]] of the [[City University of New York]] from 1967 to 1968, he received a [[Master of Public Administration]] from the [[University of Pittsburgh]] in 1970.
He worked for five years at the [[Department of Health, Education, and Welfare]] as a budget officer before serving as a senior specialist for budgetary and fiscal policy at the [[Library of Congress]]. From 1976 to 1979, he was on the staff of [[U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations]].<ref name="WebsiteBio">{{cite web|url=http://moran.house.gov/biography.shtml|title=Congressman Jim Moran – Biography|access-date=February 27, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100202202921/http://moran.house.gov/biography.shtml <!--Added by H3llBot-->|archive-date=February 2, 2010}}</ref>▼
==Career==
In 1979, Moran was elected to the [[Alexandria, Virginia]], [[City Council]]. He was [[deputy mayor]] from 1982 until his resignation in 1984 as part of a ''[[nolo contendere]]'' plea bargain to a misdemeanor conflict of interest charge, which courts later erased. The incident stemmed from charges that Moran had used money from a [[political action committee]] to rent a tuxedo and buy Christmas cards; both of which were later judged by the [[Commonwealth Attorney]] to "fit the definition of constituent services", and were dismissed.<ref name="no violation">{{cite news|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-1140015.html|title=Prosecutor Finds No Violation In Moran's Use of PAC Money|last=Jenkins|first=Kent|date=July 31, 1990|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=February 15, 2009}} {{Dead link|date=April 2012|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>▼
After college, Moran followed his father's footstep to become an amateur [[Boxing|boxer]]. During a campaign in 1992, he admitted that he had used [[marijuana]] during his early 20s.<ref name="marijuana">{{cite news|last=Baker|first=Peter|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1030794.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126234401/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1030794.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 26, 2013|title=Moran Tried Marijuana In His Early Twenties; Representative Says Activity Less Serious Than Rival's|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=October 20, 1992}}</ref> Following a brief career as a stockbroker, Moran moved to [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name="Washington Post bio"/>
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In 1985, Moran was elected mayor of Alexandria. He was reelected in 1988<ref>{{cite web |title=MORAN BEATS RING IN ALEXANDRIA |website=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1988/05/11/moran-beats-ring-in-alexandria/b9cb5262-6f2f-402f-bb7d-ec652ed587aa/}}</ref> and resigned after he was elected to Congress in November 1990.▼
▲In 1979, Moran was elected to the City Council of [[Alexandria, Virginia]]
▲In 1985, Moran was elected mayor of Alexandria, Virginia. He was reelected in 1988,<ref>{{cite
==U.S. House of Representatives==
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In 2006, Moran defeated Republican challenger T. M. Odonoghue and Independent J. T. Hurysz.
In 2008, Moran again had a primary challenger; he won with 86% of the vote. In the [[United States House of Representatives elections, 2008|general election]], Moran faced Republican Mark Ellmore and [[Independent Green]] Ron Fisher. He won with 68 percent of the vote to Elmore's 30 percent.<ref name=SBE_Nov2008>{{cite web|url=https://www.voterinfo.sbe.virginia.gov/election/DATA/2008/07261AFC-9ED3-410F-B07D-84D014AB2C6B/Official/6_s.shtml |publisher=Commonwealth Of Virginia |access-date=August 13, 2009 |format=PDF |title=November 2008 Official Results |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005215807/https://www.voterinfo.sbe.virginia.gov/election/DATA/2008/07261AFC-9ED3-410F-B07D-84D014AB2C6B/Official/6_s.shtml |archive-date=October 5, 2013 }}</ref> In November 2009, Ellmore announced he would again challenge Moran, but dropped out of the race four months later.<ref name="ellmore drops out">{{cite news|url=http://www.sungazette.net/articles/2010/03/07/arlington/news/nw221b.txt|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130222115553/http://www.sungazette.net/articles/2010/03/07/arlington/news/nw221b.txt|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 22, 2013|title=Ellmore Out of Hunt in 8th District GOP Race|date=March 7, 2010|publisher=The Arlington Sun Gazette|access-date=March 25, 2010}}</ref> In the June 2010 Republican primary, attorney [[Matthew Berry (politician)|Matthew Berry]] narrowly lost to retired [[U.S. Army]] Colonel [[Jay Patrick Murray]], after a last-minute mailing attacking Berry's homosexuality.<ref name="gazette packet">{{cite news|last=Pope |first=Michael Lee |title=A Choice for the GOP |url=http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=340473&paper=59&cat=109 |newspaper=The Alexandria Gazette Packet |date=May 13, 2010 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="washpost murray">{{cite news|last=Weigel|first=Dave|title=A good night for the GOP establishment in Virginia|url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/06/a_good_night_for_the_gop_estab.html|access-date=June 8, 2010|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=June 8, 2010|archive-date=May 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525135953/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/06/a_good_night_for_the_gop_estab.html|url-status=
▲In November 2009 Ellmore announced he would again challenge Moran, but dropped out of the race four months later.<ref name="ellmore drops out">{{cite news|url=http://www.sungazette.net/articles/2010/03/07/arlington/news/nw221b.txt|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130222115553/http://www.sungazette.net/articles/2010/03/07/arlington/news/nw221b.txt|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 22, 2013|title=Ellmore Out of Hunt in 8th District GOP Race|date=March 7, 2010|publisher=The Arlington Sun Gazette|access-date=March 25, 2010}}</ref> In the June 2010 Republican primary, attorney [[Matthew Berry (politician)|Matthew Berry]] narrowly lost to retired [[U.S. Army]] Colonel [[Jay Patrick Murray]], after a last-minute mailing attacking Berry's homosexuality.<ref name="gazette packet">{{cite news|last=Pope |first=Michael Lee |title=A Choice for the GOP |url=http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=340473&paper=59&cat=109 |newspaper=The Alexandria Gazette Packet |date=May 13, 2010 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="washpost murray">{{cite news|last=Weigel|first=Dave|title=A good night for the GOP establishment in Virginia|url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/06/a_good_night_for_the_gop_estab.html|access-date=June 8, 2010|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=June 8, 2010|archive-date=May 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525135953/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/06/a_good_night_for_the_gop_estab.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Fisher again was on the ballot.<ref name="fairfax times">{{cite news|last=Schumitz|first=Kali|title=Republicans vie for chance to unseat Moran|newspaper=Fairfax County Times|date=May 19, 2010}}</ref> During the campaign, Moran was criticized by military advocacy groups and conservatives for saying, at a local Democratic committee meeting, that Murray had not "served or performed any kind of public service".<ref name=WTOP>{{cite news|url=http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=2092046|title=Moran defends accusations of opponent's lack of service|last=Haning|first=Evan|date=October 25, 2010|publisher=WTOP|access-date=October 29, 2010|archive-date=May 4, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504030018/http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=2092046|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="asman">{{cite news|last=Asman |first=David |title=Why Tuesday Will Be a Blowout |url=http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2010/10/29/tuesday-blowout |access-date=November 7, 2010 |newspaper=Fox Business |date=October 29, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101105075300/http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2010/10/29/tuesday-blowout/ |archive-date=November 5, 2010 }}</ref><ref name="combatveteransforcongress">{{cite web|title=Combat Veterans Slam Moran; Demand Apology for Comment|url=http://combatveteransforcongress.org/story/combat-veterans-slam-moran-demand-apology-comment|publisher=Combat Veterans for Congress|access-date=November 8, 2010|archive-date=July 25, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725185627/http://combatveteransforcongress.org/story/combat-veterans-slam-moran-demand-apology-comment|url-status=live}}</ref> Moran responded by commending Murray's military service, while saying that he used the phrase in relation to Murray not having engaged in "local civic engagement" and not having served in local office.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=2092046 |title=Moran defends accusations of opponent's lack of service |publisher=WTOP |date=October 25, 2010 |access-date=September 30, 2012 |archive-date=October 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011160051/http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=2092046 |url-status=live }}</ref> In November 2010, Moran was re-elected to an eleventh term with 61% of the vote.<ref>{{cite news|title=Moran Claims Victory, Tells Backers 'A Difficult 2 Years Lie Ahead' |first=Nicholas |last=Benton |newspaper=[[Falls Church News-Press]] |date=November 2, 2010 |url=http://www.fcnp.com/news/7692-moran-claims-victory-tells-backers-a-difficult-2-years-lie-ahead |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710232910/http://www.fcnp.com/news/7692-moran-claims-victory-tells-backers-a-difficult-2-years-lie-ahead/ |archive-date=July 10, 2011 }}</ref>
In 2012, Moran faced another primary challenge, from Navy veteran Bruce Shuttleworth. A controversy erupted when the Democratic Party of Virginia disqualified Shuttleworth, saying he had fallen 17 signatures short of the 1,000 threshold required. Shuttleworth cried foul and filed a federal lawsuit; the party then allowed Shuttleworth on the ballot.<ref>{{cite news |last=Pershing |first=Ben |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/virginia-politics/post/jim-moran-challenger-sues-after-being-barred-from-democratic-primary-ballot/2012/04/09/gIQAJSIN6S_blog.html |title=After initial rejection, Moran challenger will be on primary ballot |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=April 9, 2012 |access-date=September 30, 2012 |archive-date=June 17, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617162953/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/virginia-politics/post/jim-moran-challenger-sues-after-being-barred-from-democratic-primary-ballot/2012/04/09/gIQAJSIN6S_blog.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Moran went on to win by a sizable margin. In November, Moran defeated Republican J. Patrick Murray, Independent Jason J. Howell, and Independent Green Janet Murphy, winning 64% of the vote.
===Tenure===
Moran represented [[Virginia's 8th congressional district]], an area in [[Northern Virginia]] that is just across the [[Potomac River]] from Washington, D.C.; the district includes [[Arlington County, Virginia|Arlington]] county, and the cities of [[Alexandria, Virginia|Alexandria]], [[Falls Church, Virginia|Falls Church]] and parts of [[Fairfax County, Virginia|Fairfax County]]. The redistricting that followed the [[2000 United States Census|2000 census]] also gave Moran a portion of [[Reston, Virginia]]. His district is located in the [[Dulles Technology Corridor]] and is the home of many federal defense contractors as well as a significant number of those who work in the information technology industry. Many federal employees also reside within the district, mostly due to its proximity to [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] and because the [[United States Department of Defense]] and various other agencies are headquartered there.<ref name="8th District Info">{{cite web|url=http://moran.house.gov/district.shtml|title=Virginia's 8th District|access-date=February 28, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100202202958/http://moran.house.gov/district.shtml <!--Added by H3llBot-->|archive-date=February 2, 2010}}</ref>
During the mid 1990s, Moran co-founded and later co-chaired the [[New Democrat Coalition]], a coalition of [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] lawmakers who consider themselves to be [[Centrism|moderates]] with regard to commerce, budgeting, and economic legislation, but vote as liberals on social issues.<ref name=DLC>Democratic Leadership Council: [http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=86&subid=194&contentid=3775 The New Democratic Credo] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203140414/http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=86&subid=194&contentid=3775 |date=December 3, 2010 }}. Retrieved February 14, 2010.</ref> Moran was also a member of the [[Congressional Progressive Caucus]] (CPC), the largest caucus operating within the Democratic caucus, which works to advance [[progressivism|progressive]] issues and opinions. He joined the caucus prior to the [[111th United States Congress|111th Congress]].<ref name="mycongress">{{cite web|url=http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2010/01/16/just-how-relentlessly-progressive-is-the-congressional-progressive-caucus-of-2010/|title=Just How Relentlessly Progressive is the Congressional Progressive Caucus of 2010?|date=January 16, 2010|publisher=That's My Congress|access-date=April 12, 2010|archive-date=April 6, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100406085910/http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2010/01/16/just-how-relentlessly-progressive-is-the-congressional-progressive-caucus-of-2010/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="thesetimes">{{cite news|url=http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2914/|title=Progressive Caucus Rising|last=Burt|first=Nick|author2=Bleifuss, Joel|date=November 8, 2006|publisher=These Times|access-date=April 12, 2010|archive-date=October 25, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101025222047/http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2914|url-status=live}}</ref>
====1990s====
In 1995, Moran and California Republican [[Duke Cunningham]] had to be restrained by the [[Capitol Police]] after a shoving match on the house floor over President Bill Clinton's decision to send U.S. troops to [[Bosnia]]. "I thought he had been bullying too many people for too long, and I told him so
During the final years of the [[Presidency of Bill Clinton|Clinton administration]], Moran was critical of the [[President of the United States|President]]
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[[File:Jim Moran Darfur Protest.gif|thumb|Moran and [[Sheila Jackson Lee]] protesting outside the [[Embassy of Sudan, Washington, D.C.|Embassy of Sudan]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], in April 2006]]
Moran was voted High Technology Legislator of the Year by the Information Technology Industry Council and was voted into the [[AeA|American Electronics Association]] Hall of Fame for his work on avoiding the [[ {{cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/2043/cosponsors |author-link=Tom Davis (Virginia politician)|first=Tom|last=Davis|title=To establish the District of Columbia as a Congressional district for purposes of representation in the House of Representatives, and for other purposes. (HR 2043)|publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |date=May 3, 2005|quote=Latest Major Action: 6/6/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/297/cosponsors|author-link=Nick Rahall|first=Nick Joe|last=Rahall II|title=To restore the prohibition on the commercial sale and slaughter of wild free-roaming horses and burros (H.R.297)|publisher=[[Library of Congress]]|date=January 25, 2005|quote=Latest Major Action: 2/7/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.|access-date=November 23, 2019|archive-date=September 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921142510/https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/297/cosponsors|url-status=live}}</ref>
On April 28, 2006, Moran, along with four other members of Congress (the now-deceased Rep. [[Tom Lantos]] of California, [[Sheila Jackson Lee]] of Texas, and [[Jim McGovern (American politician)|James McGovern]] and [[John Olver]] of [[Massachusetts]]), and six other activists, were arrested for disorderly conduct in front of the Sudanese embassy in Washington, D.C., and spent 45 minutes in a jail cell before being released. They were protesting the alleged role of [[Sudan]]'s government in ethnic cleansing in [[Darfur]]. According to the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'', "Their protest and civil disobedience was designed to embarrass the [[Politics of Sudan|military dictatorship's]] ongoing genocide of its non-Arab citizens."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/28/MNG4RIH93T7.DTL|title=Five members of Congress arrested over Sudan protest – San Francisco|work=San Francisco Chronicle|publisher=Hearst Communications|location=San Francisco, California|date=April 28, 2006|last=Dowle|first=Jim|access-date=February 15, 2010|archive-date=February 18, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218050558/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2006%2F04%2F28%2FMNG4RIH93T7.DTL|url-status=live}}</ref>
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Moran became the [[ranking member]] of the subcommittee after the Democratic Party lost control of the House of Representatives following the [[United States House of Representatives elections, 2010|November 2010 elections]].
After President Obama's [[2011 State of the Union Address]], Moran was interviewed by [[Alhurra]], an Arab television network. During the interview, he said, "a lot of people in [the United States of America] ... don't want to be governed by an African-American" and that the Democrats lost seats in the 2010 election for "the same reason the Civil War happened in the United States ... the Southern states, particularly the slaveholding states, didn't want to see a president who was opposed to slavery."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/01/democrat-jim-moran-racism-2010-elections-/1?csp=34news|title=Democrat says racism played role in election losses|work=OnPolitics|publisher=USAToday|date=January 28, 2011|access-date=January 28, 2011|last=Camilia|first=Catalina|archive-date=November 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171115225726/http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/01/democrat-jim-moran-racism-2010-elections-/1?csp=34news|url-status=live}}</ref> The remarks received national media attention.<ref>{{cite web |last=Epstein |first=Jennifer |url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/48315.html |title=Jim Moran: Racism fueled Democrats' midterm losses |publisher=Politico |date=January 27, 2011 |access-date=September 30, 2012 |archive-date=October 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010060043/http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/48315.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/28/jim-moran-gop-black-president_n_814978.html |title=Democratic Rep. Jim Moran: Opposition to Black President Played Role in 2010 GOP Gains |publisher=Huffington Post |date=January 28, 2011 |access-date=September 30, 2012 |first=Nick |last=Wing |archive-date=November 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112142820/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/28/jim-moran-gop-black-president_n_814978.html |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'''s Jennifer Rubin said the remarks were "beyond uncivil" and "obnoxious".<ref>{{cite news |last=Rubin |first=Jennifer |url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-turn/2011/01/rep_jim_moran_--_beyond_uncivi.html |title=Virginia's Rep. Jim Moran – beyond uncivil |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=January 27, 2011 |access-date=September 30, 2012 |archive-date=October 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010201328/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-turn/2011/01/rep_jim_moran_--_beyond_uncivi.html |url-status=
[[File:Jim Moran at Bike to Work Day.JPG|thumb|left|Jim Moran attending the Rosslyn pit stop at [[Bike-to-Work Day]] DC 2012]]
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Moran listed the environment as one of his top issues, citing his high marks from the [[League of Conservation Voters]] and the [[Sierra Club]]. He used his positions as a member of the [[House Appropriations Committee|Appropriations Committee]] and as chairman of the [[United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies|Interior Appropriations Subcommittee]] to allocate federal funding for hiking trails<ref name="Environment">{{cite web|url=http://moran.house.gov/issues_environment.shtml|title=Environment – Congressman Jim Moran|last=Moran|first=James|access-date=February 25, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100220033858/http://moran.house.gov/issues_environment.shtml <!--Added by H3llBot-->|archive-date=February 20, 2010}}</ref> and wildlife reserves in his district.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/107886|title=Interior Bill Holds $9 Million for Land Preservation & Environmental Projects|publisher=American Chronicle|access-date=March 22, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130035707/http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/107886|archive-date=January 30, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
He also voted to ban logging on [[federal lands]]. He criticized the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency]] (EPA) for inaction on [[climate change]], saying that "EPA had a historic opportunity to tackle head-on one of the greatest threats to our existence—global warming. Instead they balked under pressure from the administration, concluding the problem is so complex and controversial that it cannot be resolved." He also endorsed and voted for the [[Clean Air Act (United States)|Clean Air Act]] and said that [[global warming]] is an important issue to him.<ref name=issues2000/> In 2010, Moran also expressed discontent with President [[Barack Obama]]'s decision to allow [[offshore oil drilling|oil drilling]] off the coast of the United States.<ref name="tpm oil">{{cite news|url=http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/moran-my-opposition-to-renewed-offshore-drilling-has-not-changed.php |title=Moran: My Opposition To Renewed Offshore Drilling Has 'Not Changed' |last=Broten |first=Nick |date=March 31, 2010 |publisher=TPM LiveWire |access-date=April 1, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009064053/http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/moran-my-opposition-to-renewed-offshore-drilling-has-not-changed.php |archive-date=October 9, 2011 }}</ref><ref name="washpost va drilling">{{cite news|url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/03/reactions.html|title=Virginia leaders, environmentalists react to drilling news|last=Kumar|first=Anita|date=March 31, 2010|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=April 1, 2010|archive-date=September 28, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928231850/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/03/reactions.html|url-status=
===Economy, budget, and taxes===
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He voted for the [[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009]] and the [[Troubled Asset Relief Program]] (TARP) Reform and Accountability Act. He supported pay-as-you-go budgeting and believed "that the American government needs to strive to build up a surplus when possible, so that there are funds to support and sustain our country during tough financial times." Moran called former President [[George W. Bush]] "Fiscally irresponsible."<ref name=issues2000/><ref>[http://moran.house.gov/issues_economy.shtml Op Eds & Columns: EPA Decision Sets Back Global Warming Efforts] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100124060314/http://moran.house.gov/issues_economy.shtml |date=January 24, 2010 }}, Moran.House.gov. Retrieved February 15, 2010.</ref>
Moran said he supported the [[redistribution of wealth]], saying in November 2008 that "We have been guided by a Republican administration who believes in this simplistic notion that people who have wealth are entitled to keep it and they have an antipathy towards the means of redistributing wealth."<ref name="weeklystandard">{{cite news|url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/11/jim_moran_on_the_simplistic_no.asp|title=Jim Moran on the simplistic notion that people with wealth are entitled to keep it|last=Ham|first=Mary Katharine|date=November 4, 2008|publisher=The Weekly Standard|access-date=March 7, 2010|archive-date=September 24, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100924224048/http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/11/jim_moran_on_the_simplistic_no.asp|url-status=
=== Social programs ===
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=== Other ===
Moran does not support [[D.C. statehood movement|granting statehood]] to the [[District of Columbia]].<ref name="statehood">{{cite web|url=http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=12573&can_id=27118|title=D.C. Statehood Bill|publisher=Project Vote Smart|access-date=March 25, 2010}}{{Dead link|date=October 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> However, he voted to allow Washington, D.C., to send a voting representative to the [[United States Congress]].<ref name="voting rights 2007">{{cite web|url=http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=12738&can_id=27118|title=District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2007|publisher=Project Vote Smart|access-date=March 26, 2010}}{{Dead link|date=October 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==Controversies==
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===PMA group===
The [[House Ethics Committee]] investigated several members of the [[United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense|House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee]], including Moran, [[Peter J. Visclosky]], [[Norm Dicks]], [[Marcy Kaptur]] and the late [[John Murtha]], who was the chairman at the time, for a conflict of interest in the allocation of the government contracts to clients of the [[PMA Group]], which donated nearly a million dollars to Moran's [[political action committee]], as well as a significant amount of money to the gubernatorial campaign of Moran's younger brother, [[Brian Moran|Brian]].<ref name="Brian Moran PMA">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/us/politics/17moran.html?_r=1|title=Brother's Role in Congress Carries Weight in Race|last=Kirkpatrick|first=David|author2=Nixon, Ron|date=April 16, 2009|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 1, 2010|archive-date=April 17, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140417104758/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/us/politics/17moran.html?_r=1|url-status=live}}</ref> Moran {{Which|date=March 2024}} said that he was unaware of "who made donations", and "how much they gave", and therefore was not affected by the donations when allocating the funding.<ref name="thinwall">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/06/AR2010030602374.html|title=Thin wall separates lobbyist contributions, earmarks|last=Smith|first=R. Jeffrey|date=March 7, 2010|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=March 7, 2010|archive-date=August 21, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110821024010/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/06/AR2010030602374.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
In February 2010, the panel cleared Moran and the others, saying that they violated no laws. The panel concluded, as part of its 305-page report, that ''"simply because a member sponsors an earmark for an entity that also happens to be a campaign contributor ... does not support a claim that a member's actions are being influenced by campaign contributions"''.<ref name="Bloomberg">{{cite news|url=http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/85636792.html |title=Ethics panel clears Murtha on donations |last=Salant |first=Jonathan |date=February 27, 2010 |publisher=Bloomberg News |access-date=February 28, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100302141857/http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/85636792.html |archive-date=March 2, 2010 }}</ref> After PMA's founder, Paul Magliocchetti, pleaded guilty in September 2010 to six years of campaign finance fraud,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42690.html |title=Paul Magliocchetti pleads guilty |publisher=Politico |date=September 24, 2010 |author=John Bresnahan |access-date=February 25, 2012 |archive-date=February 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211022710/http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42690.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Moran said that he would not return the $177,700 in PMA Group-related donations that he received from 1990 to 2010.
===Insider trading===
In November 2011, author [[Peter Schweizer]] published a book, ''Throw Them All Out'', which included an allegation that Moran used information he got from a September 16, 2008 briefing, in which Treasury Secretary [[Henry Paulson]] and [[Federal Reserve]] Chairman [[Ben Bernanke]] warned of what became the [[financial crisis of 2007–2008]], for his stock market activity:
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Schweizer alleged that Moran made more than 90 trades that day.<ref name="Democrats benefited">{{cite news|last=Weigel|first=David|title=Democrats Benefited from 2008 Trades, Too|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/11/14/democrats_benefited_from_2008_trades_too.html|access-date=November 28, 2011|newspaper=Slate|date=November 14, 2011|archive-date=November 26, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111126202049/http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/11/14/democrats_benefited_from_2008_trades_too.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Moran defended himself by citing that the trades were made in the midst of the Great Recession and that all one had to do was turn on the television to see that stock prices were dropping fast.
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=== Anti-Semitism and the Iraq War ===
In 2003, Moran drew criticism for telling an audience in [[Reston, Virginia]] that “if it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this."<ref>{{Cite web |title=CNN.com - Lawmaker under fire for saying Jews support Iraq war - Mar. 12, 2003 |url=https://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/moran.jews/ |access-date=2022-12-27 |website=www.cnn.com}}</ref> The comment was condemned by then House Democratic leader [[Nancy Pelosi]] and then Democratic Senate Minority Leader [[Tom Daschle]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |date=2007-09-10 |title=Jewish Dems Forced To Call Out One of Their Own |url=https://forward.com/news/11565/jewish-dems-forced-to-call-out-one-of-their-own/ |access-date=2022-12-27 |website=The Forward |language=en}}</ref> In 2007, Moran again generated controversy for linking the Jewish community with the war, this time by blaming [[American Israel Public Affairs Committee|AIPAC]] for American involvement in Iraq, telling the progressive Jewish magazine [[Tikkun (magazine)|Tikkun]] that “… AIPAC is the most powerful lobby and has pushed this war from the beginning … because they are so well organized, and their members are extraordinarily powerful – most of them are quite wealthy – they have been able to exert power.”<ref name="auto"/> The comments were again condemned by Democratic leadership as anti-semitic.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hearn |first=Josephine |title=Dems slam Moran's tying AIPAC to Iraq war |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2007/09/dems-slam-morans-tying-aipac-to-iraq-war-005925 |access-date=2022-12-27 |website=POLITICO |date=September 19, 2007 |language=en}}</ref>
==Later career==
In February 2015, Moran joined [[McDermott Will & Emery]] as a senior legislative advisor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mwe.com/en/team/m/moran-james-p-jim|title=James P. Moran - Team - McDermott Will and Emery|work=mwe.com|access-date=April 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530154247/https://www.mwe.com/en/team/m/moran-james-p-jim|archive-date=May 30, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> He later left the firm and became a senior policy advisor in the Washington, D.C. office of [[Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nelsonmullins.com/people/jim-moran#main|title=Nelson Mullins - Jim Moran|access-date=June 2, 2021|archive-date=June 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602215547/https://www.nelsonmullins.com/people/jim-moran#main|url-status=live}}</ref> In April 2023, he started his own lobbying firm, Moran Global Strategies, representing clients such as [[Qatar]], Biafran separatist [[Simon Ekpa]] and various defense contractors.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=Washington News Journal | author=Ana Lucia Murillo | url=https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2023/04/05/jim-moran-lobbying-firm.html | date=April 4, 2023 | title=Former Virginia congressman Jim Moran starts new lobbying firm}}</ref><ref name="The Africa Report 28 June 2024">{{cite news |last1=Pecquet |first1=Julian |title=Ex‑Congressman’s firm lobbies for African governments in exile |url=https://www.theafricareport.com/353173/ex-congressmans-firm-lobbies-for-african-governments-in-exile/ |access-date=15 July 2024 |work=[[The Africa Report]] |date=28 June 2024}}</ref>
[[Virginia Tech]] announced in April 2016 that Moran had joined the School of Public and International Affairs as professor of practice.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2016/04/041216-ncr-jimmoranatspia.html|title=Former congressman Jim Moran joins School of Public and International Affairs as professor of practice|work=vt.edu|access-date=April 27, 2016|archive-date=April 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408052333/https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2016/04/041216-ncr-jimmoranatspia.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
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==Personal life==
Moran has been married and divorced three times.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Pershing|first1=Ben|title=Rep. James P. Moran will step down from heavily Democratic N.Va. seat at end of year|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/jim-moran-will-retire-at-the-end-of-the-year/2014/01/15/9d1b8ace-7dea-11e3-95c6-0a7aa80874bc_story.html|access-date=1 August 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=January 15, 2014|archive-date=August 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822091216/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/jim-moran-will-retire-at-the-end-of-the-year/2014/01/15/9d1b8ace-7dea-11e3-95c6-0a7aa80874bc_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> His second wife, Mary Howard Moran, filed for divorce in 1999, one day after an argument at the couple's Alexandria home that resulted in a visit from the police.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://reason.com/archives/2000/11/06/an-election-eve-corruption-sto |title=An Election-Eve Corruption Story |author=Michael W. Lynch |date=November 6, 2000 |access-date=May 12, 2012 |publisher=reason.com |archive-date=April 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414112834/http://reason.com/archives/2000/11/06/an-election-eve-corruption-sto |url-status=live }}</ref> The Congressman provided his own divorce papers a few months later, and in 2003 the couple officially separated.<ref name="fox bio">{{cite news|url=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/candidate/james-p-moran-jr/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202102205/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/candidate/james-p-moran-jr/|archive-date=February 2, 2017|title=Candidate Biography – Jim Moran|publisher=Fox News|access-date=April 1, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> He remarried in 2004 to real estate developer [[LuAnn Bennett]]. In December 2010, Moran and Bennett announced they were separating.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jim Moran and wife LuAnn Bennett separate after six years of marriage |author=Ben Pershing |url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/12/jim_moran_and_wife_bennett_sep.html |date=December 23, 2010 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=March 30, 2012 |archive-date=February 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202151748/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/12/jim_moran_and_wife_bennett_sep.html |url-status=
Moran is the father of four children. A son, Patrick B. Moran, once worked as a field director for one of Moran's election campaigns but resigned in 2012 when allegations of voter fraud surfaced.<ref name="APWashPost25Oct12" /> Later in 2012, Patrick pleaded guilty to simple [[assault]] after being arrested after an incident with his girlfriend in front of a [[Columbia Heights (Washington, D.C.)|Columbia Heights]] bar on December 1.<ref name="HuffPost121212">Wing, Nick. [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/patrick-moran-assault_n_2286832.html Patrick Moran, Son Of Democratic Congressman Jim Moran, Pleads Guilty To Assaulting Girlfriend] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308101638/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/patrick-moran-assault_n_2286832.html |date=March 8, 2017 }}, [[Huffington Post]], December 12, 2012.</ref><ref name="WashCityPaper12122012" /> He was sentenced to probation.<ref name="HuffPost121212" /><ref name="WashCityPaper12122012">Sommer, Will. [http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2012/12/12/rep-jim-morans-son-guilty-of-beating-up-his-girlfriend-in-columbia-heights/ Rep. Jim Moran's Son Guilty of Beating Up His Girlfriend in Columbia Heights] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121220123438/http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2012/12/12/rep-jim-morans-son-guilty-of-beating-up-his-girlfriend-in-columbia-heights/ |date=December 20, 2012 }}, [[Washington City Paper]], December 12, 2012.</ref>
Another one of Moran's children is Dorothy, who was diagnosed with an inoperable [[brain tumor]] during her father's campaign for reelection against [[Kyle McSlarrow]] in 1994. It was said at the time that she had only a twenty percent chance of living to age five, but after almost two years of [[chemotherapy]] and herbal therapies she was declared cancer-free.<ref name="dorothy moran">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/29/us/in-virginia-a-child-s-illness-quiets-a-congressional-campaign.html|title=In Virginia, a Child's Illness Quiets a Congressional Campaign|date=August 29, 1994|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 1, 2010|archive-date=May 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514124307/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/29/us/in-virginia-a-child-s-illness-quiets-a-congressional-campaign.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="recovered">{{cite news|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-795336.html |title='Miracle Child' Is Beating the Odds; Rep. Moran's Daughter Cancer-Free After Radiation, Herbal Therapies |last=Hall |first=Charles |date=September 11, 1996 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=April 1, 2010 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
His brother, [[Brian Moran]], is a former member of the [[Virginia House of Delegates]], and the head of the Virginia Democratic Party between early 2011 and December 2012.<ref>{{cite news|title=Democrats in Virginia tap Brian Moran to lead party|first=Anita|last=Kumar|newspaper=Washington Post|date=December 5, 2010|page=C1|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/04/AR2010120403311.html|access-date=October 12, 2020|archive-date=November 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106004659/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/04/AR2010120403311.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He was an unsuccessful primary candidate for [[Governor of Virginia]] in the [[Virginia elections, 2009|2009 election]].<ref name="brianmoran">{{cite news|url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2009/06/post_245.html|title=Jim Moran: 'I'm Concerned'|last=Kumar|first=Anita|date=June 8, 2009|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=March 7, 2010|archive-date=September 28, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928231839/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2009/06/post_245.html|url-status=
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