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John Anthony Barrasso is an American politician and physician serving as the senior United States senator from Wyoming since 2007. A member of the Republican Party, Barrasso has focused on issues such as healthcare, energy, and economic growth during his tenure in the Senate. He has been an advocate for reducing government regulations and promoting energy independence, reflecting the interests of his constituents in Wyoming, a state rich in natural resources.
Democrats in Washington continue to try to understand the results of the election. I have heard them blame Republicans, I have heard them blame Russian hackers, I have heard them blame the FBI, and I have even heard them blame the press…
people ask for hope. They want hope and need hope. As a young doctor in my training, I worked at a children's hospital in the muscle disease clinic, and what I saw were families because muscular dystrophy, specifically Duchenne's, runs in…
the Senate minority leader, Senator Reid, came to the floor a couple of days ago and talked about health care. He said: If people would just look at the newspaper, they would see that ObamaCare has changed America--in his words--for the…
I have about 8 minutes or 9 minutes of remarks, but I don't see the Senator from Iowa yet. If the Senator from Vermont wishes to speak----
I came to talk on a different topic, but it is interesting because I noticed the front-page story of the Washington Post about a for-profit college not too many weeks ago. Headline: ``Inside Bill Clinton's nearly $18 million job as…
as you hear in Montana and I hear in Wyoming weekend after weekend as we go home and we travel our States over the summertime, we are hearing from more people and seeing more articles in the newspaper about how the Obama health care law is…
people all around the country know that the world is a very dangerous place. It has become more dangerous over the past 7\1/2\ years, and even over the course of this summer. As a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, I come here…
I come to the floor after having seen the minority leader and then the minority whip on the floor this morning talking about the President's health care law. It is a law that the President said people should forcefully defend and be proud…
I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Foreign Policy
Well, it is so interesting that the Senator would bring this up because the entire State of Wyoming has found itself in exactly the same situation where there is only one choice. Remember, the President promised a marketplace. What the…
Well, that is it. The deductibles and the copays are one of the reasons that people are saying they are disapproving of the health care law. The premiums have continued to go up, but on top of that, even if you get a subsidy that President…
ObamaCare has actually made that worse because if you take a look at the numbers in the deductibles and copays, people who get insurance through ObamaCare have found out in the last several years that they have paid twice as much out of…
That was the front page story in the Washington Post on Sunday, August 28, ``Health Exchange Sign-Ups Fall Short.'' The Congressional Budget Office expected 24 million people to sign up, and less than 11 million have signed up. So less…
That is very often the case, and we are seeing more and more of that across the country. Emergency room doctors are saying they are swamped. The President says that when they get ObamaCare, they will find family doctors. That is not what…
Senator Graham from South Carolina and I introduced a bill called the Health Care Choice Act to let the States have much more of a say in this. The State Health Care Choice Act provides freedom, flexibility, choice. So much of the reason…
Interestingly enough, President Obama has made it pretty easy to do that. What we found in watching some of these testimonies from around the country, in one State, you had over 250 people who signed up, got treatment, over $100,000 worth…
I ask unanimous consent that the Senate stand in recess as under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 12:18 p.m., recessed until 2:15 p.m. and reassembled when called to order by the Presiding Officer (Mr. Flake)…
I ask unanimous consent that the Special Committee on Aging be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on September 7, 2016, at 2:30 p.m., in room SD-562 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building to conduct a hearing entitled…
I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Veterans' Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on September 7, 2016, at 2:30 p.m., in room SR-418 of the Russell Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled…
I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on September 7, 2016, at 10 a.m., in room SD-226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled…
I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Indian Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on September 7, 2016, in room SD-628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, at 2:30 p.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…
I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on September 7, 2016, at 10 a.m. to conduct a hearing entitled ``The Administration's Proposal for a UN Resolution on…
over the past several weeks, I spent a lot of time traveling around my home State of Wyoming. I know the Presiding Officer spent a lot of time traveling around his home State of Oklahoma. I talked to a lot of people in Wyoming, as he did…
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