WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor about how the President’s health care law is hurting millions of Americans. Barrasso also responded to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) recent comments about the law.
WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-WY) and David Vitter (R-LA) praised the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee for passing the Secret Science Reform Act (S. 544). Barrasso, Vitter and EPW Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-OK) introduced the bill in February to ensure future Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations are based on the best available science. Similar legislation passed the House in the 113th Congress with bipartisan support.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor about the bipartisan Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act. Barrasso also talked about an amendment he introduced to the bill to require the president to certify that Iran is not directly supporting acts of terrorism against our country or against an American citizen anywhere in the world.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) sent a letter to Energy Secretary Moniz in response to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) testimony at yesterday’s hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor about legislative accomplishments in the new Republican-led Senate. Barrasso highlights how the Senate has passed a number of important bipartisan bills and amendments and is finally working again for the American people.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-WY), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) and others reintroduced the bipartisan North American Alternative Fuels Act.
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) and Congressman Scott Tipton (R-CO) reintroduced legislation to protect water users from uncompensated federal takings of privately-held water rights. The Water Rights Protection Act (WRPA), which passed the House in the 113th Congress with bipartisan support, would uphold state water law and priority-based systems. WRPA would provide water users with a line of defense from increasing federal attempts, such as the Forest Service Groundwater Management Directive and ski area permit clause, to take private water rights without compensation or restrict user access to them.
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Has Already Passed Several Key Bills and One Nomination
“American taxpayers who were forced into the Obamacare system—well they’re having to fill out even more forms this year than in the past. So many forms that the Internal Revenue Service can then enforce all of the president’s health care mandates. It is a complicated and a burdensome process.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) praised the Senate for passing a federal budget that balances without raising taxes on Americans:
