John Barrasso

I'm John Barrasso. I'm a physician from Wyoming. I'm also the United States Senator from Wyoming and Chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee.

We believe that structure reform of the agency is needed.

The spirit and intent of this legislation is clearly aimed at responding to the call of tribal leaders, patients, and families.

I’d like your commitment to reforming the culture in IHS to insisting that agency leaders treat their constituency with the dignity and the respect that they deserve.

So tell me, why is your organization now linking arms with a group who believes that physically intimidating public officials and their families is acceptable behavior?

What happens to American workers and their families when environmental activists succeed in blocking the construction of oil and gas pipelines?

Is it waiting until a public official of FERC confirmed individual or his family or her family, if they get hurt? Is that the plan?

I find these tactics in today's world to be extremely troubling, very dangerous.

Do you believe that blocking the construction of oil and gas pipelines is a smart and effective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

Thank you very much for that and for your commitment.

I appreciate your comments.

It is now asking the Open Skies Consultative Commission for permission to use more powerful collection capabilities.

In the President's speech back in April of 2009 in Prague, he committed to ridding the world of nuclear weapons.

In response to questioning on the matter, the administration said they are exploring their economic countermeasures in response to the violation.

Russia has been violating the INF Treaty for quite some time.

They used social media to do outreach to the public, and they did it during the rulemaking process.

They mislead the public, they mislead our members, they confused the members of the Farm Bureau.

EPA spent an enormous amount of time and resources defending their Waters of the U.S. proposal.

I have laid the foundation for these efforts in the Tribal Law and Order Act which brought new cops funding to rural Alaska.

I am committed to pursuing new pathways for protection of our Native people, especially our Native women and our children.

I was an early co-sponsor of the VAWA reauthorization, working with Senator Leahy and Senator Crapo and consistently supported that partial Oliphant fix.

But they also have been used as legal weapons to thwart new investments in Western water development.

There can be no doubt that these environmental laws have provided significant benefits to our society.

We have more regulations coming from Washington, putting restrictions on where water can go, sometimes in favor of species as opposed to working families.

The bill that we introduced addresses the need of an abundant, consistent and clean supply of water for all of our communities.