Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., on Thursday advocated for Kansas and for his home base of Manhattan during the confirmation hearings for U.S. secretary of agriculture nominee Brooke Rollins.

Moran was one of several senators on the Senate Agriculture Committee asking questions of Rollins, who is Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Agriculture.

Moran brought up the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, the federal animal disease lab in Manhattan. The USDA oversees that lab.

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