John Barrasso

Unfortunately the policies that I see coming out of the Administration don't always match the words that are being spoken.

The President recently said I'll go anywhere, anytime to be a booster for American businesses, American workers and American products.

I still have a lot of concerns about that stimulus money, how it's been spent and the justification for additional budget at this time.

As Senator Barrasso and Senator Baucus have both mentioned previously, the Fish and Wildlife Service has tried twice to de-list the gray wolf in the Northern Rocky Mountains, and courts unfortunately have disagreed with us in those cases.

Senator Barrasso is correct; there is a deep feeling in the west that Washington just doesn't get it.

It is time for a change of course; it is time to restore the trust between the people of my State and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

It is an example of the type of unconstitutional policymaking at the agencies that has everyone on both sides of the Hill clamoring for regulatory reform.

One issue that is of great concern to me is the use that you have heard in previous statements from my side of the aisle with use of the Fish and Wildlife Service as a climate change agency.

There is a lot of discussion about what the historic range of the gray wolf has been.

I agree with Senator Inhofe about your qualifications, your commitment.

I have introduced legislation which would remove the wolf from the Endangered Species list and return it to State management.

That is why we come to the floor to discuss S. 244. The title is State Health Care Choice Act. That is what it truly is--State health care, and choice. It is a choice to be made by the States about health care because if the American…

I think the attorneys general are making decisions based on what they believe is in the best interests of the citizens of their State, and they are saying, People of our State have rights, and we have a Constitution, and that Constitution…

Twenty-six States have joined the lawsuit, including my home State of Wyoming which recently joined. New Governors have been elected and sworn into office in January, so five new States have joined the lawsuit, saying, This law isn't…

Seven States have already passed laws or constitutional amendments making it illegal to force someone to buy health insurance.

The people of Wyoming overwhelmingly want the opportunity to remove themselves from the heavy burden of the Obama-passed and supported health care law. There are huge expenses. The Medicaid mandate is huge.

The President said the same thing in June of 2009 when he visited and spoke to the American Medical Association. So when that issue didn't really come to the floor, as a number of us would have liked, in this health care law that was…

I guess the question comes down to, can something be reopened once there has been something given.

There has been an onslaught of job-crushing regulations emerging from the Environmental Protection Agency over the last 2 years.

That sounds arrogant.

Despite the fact that the American people rejected cap and trade, the EPA continues to press forward.

Well-qualified independent economists have estimated this will cost the United States in lost foreign investment roughly $100 billion a year and many thousands, thousands of jobs.

The Environmental Protection Agency's climate policies amounted to 'national economic suicide.'

I know how important it is to work on preventive programs to keep people healthy.

In my opinion shutting down offshore energy exploration would be the wrong lesson to take from this.