WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor highlighting the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) unacceptable response to Western states and Indian tribes affected by last August’s Gold King Mine disaster.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) questioned chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Stephen Burns about ways to improve the NRC permitting process. Burns was testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee oversight hearing on the president’s budget request for the NRC.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor highlighting energy-job losses in Wyoming and the importance of the energy industry to Wyoming and America.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee, sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell about the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) proposed venting and flaring rule. Barrasso calls on Jewell to follow through on expediting permits for natural gas-gathering lines on federal land.
Late last month, a little-known state agency in New York took an implausible step toward licensing illegal immigrants to do everything from teach to practice medicine.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor highlighting the failures of the president’s health care law on its sixth anniversary.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) questioned Undersecretary for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon of the State Department about the Obama administration’s failure to adequately respond to Iran’s dangerous behavior in the region. Shannon was testifying before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Mike Enzi and John Barrasso, both R-Wyo., joined Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and 40 other senators in signing a friend-of-the-court brief supporting petitioners challenging the legality of President Obama’s Nov. 2014 program of deferred action for illegal immigrants.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) led a group of 22 senators in sending a letter to Senate appropriators expressing opposition to U.S. taxpayer dollars going to the United Nations Green Climate Fund (GCF).
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding the Obama administration’s recent announcement of a deal with Canada to cut methane emissions from oil and gas production facilities.
