John Barrasso
The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama's health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out.Collection: Health
I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.Collection: Legal
As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr. Obama's unprecedented health-insurance mandate. Not only does he believe he can order you to buy insurance, the president also incorrectly equates health insurance coverage with medical care.Collection: Medical
A culture of intimidation has no justification in any administration.
There is going to be a nuclear arms race in the Middle East if Iran gets a nuclear weapon. And you are going to see it in Egypt, in Turkey, in the Emirates. All of those people will want that.
Illegal immigration continues to be a major problem in the United States. We have people waiting to come here legally. And we should not be rewarding people who have come here illegally.
In an agreement with China, President Obama has already pledged to reduce America's net greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 25% by 2025. In return, China has agreed to 'peak' its carbon-dioxide emissions in 2030.
Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
When it comes to international trade, the question is, who is going to write the rules, the United States or China? And my vote is the United States.
The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.
My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country.
My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well.
We need to focus on getting people back to work, focus on jobs, the economy, the debt and the spending. That's what will improve the quality of life for American families and for hard-working taxpayers.
I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.
We need to save and strengthen and fix Medicare. Seniors realize Medicare is broken.
I have to tell you as a doctor, 25 years of practice, not as a politician using talking points, as somebody who has taken care of Medicare patients, we can make it a lot better.
What people are seeing is that the cost of their care and their insurance is going up faster since Obamacare has been passed than if the healthcare law had not been passed at all.
I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.
Each and every day, more people pay the price of Obamacare's mountain of mandates. As I travel across the country, I continue to hear from Americans who want Washington to take its hands off of their healthcare.
For people who don't know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. I've been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor.
For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.
As the 2016 presidential race kicks off, candidates on both sides of the aisle are promising to stand up for the middle class. Voters deserve to know that anyone who champions Obamacare cannot honestly say she or he is also a champion of middle-class Americans.
I've operated on people from Canada that have come to Wyoming for me to take care of them because they couldn't afford to wait long enough for their free operation.
Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. We need to live within our means.
You want to continue with the social safety net: the good, the bad and the ugly parts of that, you have to have a vibrant economy. You have to have growth of the economy.
I'm child of immigrants.
We need to level the playing field so that people who buy insurance individually at the same tax rates as those who buy it than get it through work. We need to be able to let people to shop across state lines for better deals with insurance that works for them and their family, not something the government says they have to have.
I know how critical it is to make sure that people with pre-existing conditions have affordable insurance, and states are able to do that.
Congress is the appropriate place to make laws about our country's immigration policy; it is not something that the president gets to decide on his own.
I haven't changed any of my investments since I've been in the Senate and haven't purchased any stocks since I've been in the Senate.
The priority is to put bills on the president's desk that will move the country forward.
EPA has a long history of relying on science that was not created by the agency itself. This often means that the science is not available to the public and, therefore, cannot be reproduced and verified.
Republicans aren't interested in a one-sentence fix unless that sentence is, 'Obamacare is repealed.'
The Russians continue to say that they'll still go after terrorists, but that's a very elastic term. They're going after anybody they want. I don't trust them.
I'm fortunate to live in Wyoming, one of the most beautiful, pristine places in the world.
I'm somebody's who's in favor of transparency and openness.
We need an attorney general for the people, not a presidential protector and puppet of the administration.
Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.
The Obama administration seems to have lost the will to win. The terrorists have not.
An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.
ISIS already has strongholds in Syria, while the Free Syrian Army desperately needs more U.S. assistance.
The whole future, I think, of Wyoming and the economy has to do with coal and our clean coal technology, and we're going to have the ability here in Wyoming to deal with all of the things of this so-called climate change.
Washington agencies are now trying a backdoor approach to regulate our climate by abusing existing laws.
Everywhere I travel around my home state of Wyoming - but also around the country - I continue to hear, 'How can Washington make us buy something we don't want to buy, a product? They can't tell us to buy breakfast cereal or something else - how can they do that?'
The Constitution is clear, Article I, Section 8, power vetted in Congress to declare war. If you go back to the founding documents of this nation, the decision of going to war was to be made by people closest to the ground - the elected officials - to make those decisions.
I've been calling for the support of the Syrian rebels for years.
The concern is that Iraq could actually ultimately defeat ISIS, but Iran will have taken over the country, because it will be their military, their boots on the ground controlling the ground.
The states ought to be the ones making the decisions about the individual mandate, the employer mandate, all of the different requirements of what kind of insurance people have to have.
Whenever Washington makes a one-size-fits-all decision, it doesn't work in states all around the country.
We keep spending money and sending it overseas when we should be developing American energy.