“Is this climate change center going to make demands on the current C.I.A. bureaucracy?”
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John Barrasso
John Anthony Barrasso III is an American physician and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Wyoming, a seat he has held since 2007. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the Wyoming State Senate from 2003 to 2007. In 2025, he became Senate majority whip, the second-ranking Senate Republican.
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science · American physician and politician (born 1952) · politician · physician · orthopedic surgeon · also John Barrasso, John Anthony Barrasso III, John A. Barrasso, John Anthony Barrasso, Barrasso
Born 21 July 1952 · Q720521
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2026· 16 entries
“Will someone sitting in a dark room watching satellite video of northern Afghanistan now be sitting in a dark room watching polar ice caps?”
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“Washington agencies are now trying a backdoor approach to regulate our climate by abusing existing laws.”
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Published video “Barrasso: Election Security Begins with Border Security”.
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Published video “Barrasso Calls on Senate Democrats to Avoid Another Painful Shutdown”.
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Published video “Radical Democrats are Determined to Tear Down our Country and Tear up the Constitution”.
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Published video “Passing the Lindsey Graham Sanctions Bill Will Cripple Russia’s War Machine”.
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Published video “Senator Barrasso on Fox News' "The Sunday Briefing"”.
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Published video “Barrasso Blasts Democrats for Blocking the National Defense Authorization Act”.
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Published video “Barrasso: America is Worth Defending and Celebrating”.
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Published video “Barrasso: Democrats Prepare for Another Shutdown”.
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Published video “Barrasso: Today’s Democrat Party is Driven by Extremists”.
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Published video “Barrasso: Democrats Want to Raise Taxes and Protect Fraud.”.
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Public attention spiked: 2,734 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.9× the usual 348, with 3 article edits. Editors noted: Undid revision 1363846911 by GoodDay (talk)
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Yahoo: Opinion: Honoring Sen. John Barrasso’s leadership and public service
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Barrasso voted against a Senate bill to require President Trump to seek congressional approval for the 2026 Iran war
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2025· 5 entries
Nasdaq: Press Release: Senator John Barrasso Discusses GOP Agenda for Safety and Prosperity on NBC's Meet the Press
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Nasdaq: Fundraising Update: Senator John Barrasso just disclosed $142.1K of new fundraising
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CBS News: Transcript: Sen. John Barrasso on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," April 6, 2025
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Fox News: SEN. JOHN BARRASSO: Democrats all in for a government shut down. What it means for you
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Became Senate majority whip, the second-ranking Senate Republican
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2024· 2 entries
The Wall Street Journal: John Barrasso
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Declined to run for Senate Republican leader and instead announced that he would run for Republican Whip
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2023· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (2023).
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2021· 10 entries
Claimed: “Under the Democrats’ Build Back Better bill, “the experts are telling us that 30% of middle class Americans will end up paying higher taxes” while giving “a tax break to two-thirds of the millionaires in America.”” — rated Needs context by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: ““Nowhere are Americans feeling the pain more than at the pump. Gasoline prices have spiked about 70 cents per gallon since President Biden was inaugurated. They will only continue to climb.”” — rated Four Pinocchios by The Washington Post.
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Claimed: “"Joe Biden will never veto a bill. He’ll go down in history as a president who has never vetoed a bill, cause he will sign whatever Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi put on his desk. ... They’re running the show."” — rated Lacks Context by FactCheck.org.
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Barrasso voted against creating the January 6 commission
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Claimed: “The relief bill signed by President Joe Biden "punished the states that opened earlier, and it rewarded the states that stayed closed the longest."” — rated Linkage isn't perfect by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: “"With this bill, they’re going to people in prison, they’re going to people who are illegal immigrants."” — rated Two Pinocchios by The Washington Post.
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Claimed: “American Rescue Plan Act stimulus checks are "going to people in prison, they’re going to people who are illegal immigrants."” — rated Spins the Facts by FactCheck.org.
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Barrasso voted to acquit Trump of inciting the 2021 United States Capitol attack
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Career landmark: United States senator (2021–2023).
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Admitted, "We believe that mankind is certainly contributing" to climate change
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2019· 2 entries
Barrasso inaccurately claimed that "livestock will be banned" as a result of the Green New Deal, and said we needed to "say goodbye to dairy, to beef, to family farms, to ranches
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Career landmark: United States senator (2019–2021).
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2018· 2 entries
Barrasso was selected as chair of the Senate Republican Conference
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“The president is an international businessman; I’m not surprised he was doing international business.”
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2017· 3 entries
Awarded Dr. Nathan Davis Award for United States Senators (2017).
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Claimed: “Claimed “every Supreme Court vote in the United States Senate, for over 200 and some years, has been an up-or-down vote."” — rated Misleading by FactCheck.org.
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Career landmark: United States senator (2017–2019).
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2016· 1 entry
“There were so many things involved in the 2016 campaign, it’s hard to point to what one thing influenced voters.”
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2015· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (2015–2017).
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2014· 1 entry
Whether human activity contributes to climate change, Barrasso denied the existence of the scientific consensus on climate change, saying that "the role human activity plays is not known
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2013· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (2013–2015).
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2011· 2 entries
Introduced a bill that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from limiting carbon dioxide emissions
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Career landmark: United States senator (2011–2013).
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2009· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (2009–2011).
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2007· 4 entries
During Cheyenne's annual Race for the Cure, Barrasso and Bobbi Brown, herself a breast cancer survivor and at the time the director of Barrasso's state senate offices, announced their engagement
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Governor Dave Freudenthal appointed Barrasso to replace Senator Craig L
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Career landmark: United States senator (2007–2009).
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Barrasso was quoted as saying on his application: "I believe in limited government, lower taxes, less spending, traditional family values, local control and a strong national defense"; he also said that he had "voted for
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2003· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the State Senate of Wyoming (2003–2007).
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2002· 1 entry
Was elected to the State Senate, where he stayed until his appointment to the U
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1996· 4 entries
Campaign: 1996 U.S. Senate election.
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Barrasso's position on abortion (and on other issues) shifted in a conservative direction
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For the seat being vacated by Republican Alan K
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Narrowly losing the Republican primary to Mike Enzi
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1983· 1 entry
After completing his residency at Yale, Barrasso moved to Wyoming with his then-wife, Linda Nix
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1978· 2 entries
Studied at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine (1978).
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And conducted his residency at Yale Medical School in New Haven, Connecticut
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1974· 2 entries
Studied at Georgetown University, Bachelor of Science (1974).
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With a Bachelor of Science degree in biology
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1952· 1 entry
Born 1952-07-21.
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