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John Anthony Barrasso III ( ; born July 21, 1952) is an American physician and politician serving as the
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from
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, a seat he has held since 2007. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the Wyoming State Senate from 2003 to 2007. Born and raised in
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, Barrasso graduated from Georgetown University, where he received his
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and M.D. He conducted his medical residency at
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before moving to Wyoming and beginning a private
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practice in
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. Barrasso was active in various medical societies and associations. Barrasso first ran for U.S. Senate in
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, narrowly losing the Republican primary to
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. In 2002, he was elected to the state Senate, where he stayed until his appointment to the U.S. Senate after the 2007 death of incumbent Craig L. Thomas. He was elected to finish Thomas's term in
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and reelected in 2012 and
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. In 2018, Barrasso was selected as chair of the
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. He is the dean of Wyoming's congressional delegation.


Early life, education, and medical career

Barrasso was born in
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, in 1952, the son of Louise M. (née DeCisco) and John Anthony Barrasso, Jr. He is of Italian descent. He is a 1970 graduate of the former Central Catholic High School, which in 2011 merged with Holy Name High School to form Berks Catholic High School. Barrasso attended
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(where he became a member of
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fraternity) for two years before transferring to Georgetown University in
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, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1974 with a
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degree in
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. He received his M.D. degree from
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in 1978. He conducted his residency at Yale Medical School in
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. In 1983, after completing of his residency at Yale, Barrasso moved to Wyoming, with his wife at the time, Linda Nix. He joined a private orthopedic practice in
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and for a time was the Wyoming Medical Center's chief of staff. He was State President of the Wyoming Medical Society, President of the National Association of Physician Broadcasters, and a member of the American Medical Association Council of Ethics and Judicial Affairs. Barrasso was also a
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physician for the Professional Rodeo Cowboy's Association (and a member of the "Cowboy Joe Club") and volunteered as a team physician for
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as well as several local high schools. Barrasso was a board-certified
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in private practice in Casper from 1983 to 2007.


1996 U.S. Senate election

Barrasso ran for the Republican nomination for the
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in
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for the seat being vacated by Republican Alan K. Simpson, losing narrowly to
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, 32% to 30%, in a nine-candidate election.


Wyoming Senate

Barrasso was elected to the
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unopposed in 2002 and reelected unopposed in 2006. During his time in the State Senate he chaired the Transportation and Highways Committee.


U.S. Senate


Appointment

On June 22, 2007, Governor
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appointed Barrasso to replace Senator Craig L. Thomas, who died earlier that month. Under state law, Freudenthal was able to consider only three individuals chosen by the Republican State Central Committee because the seat was vacated by a Republican. The others were former State Treasurer
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of Cheyenne, later Wyoming's member of the
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and its junior U.S. senator, and former Republican State Chairman and lobbyist
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, a former aide to Thomas.
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, grandson of former Senator Clifford P. Hansen, also sought the nomination, as did the 2006 gubernatorial nominee Ray Hunkins, a Wheatland rancher and lawyer. Mead was elected
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in 2010, and Lummis was elected to Congress in 2008, and to the Senate in 2020, where she now serves alongside Barrasso. When he was appointed, Barrasso said he would also run in the November 2008 special election to fill the remainder of Thomas's term.


Elections

;2008 Barrasso announced on May 19, 2008, that he would run in the general election in 2008 to serve the remainder of Thomas's term, though he had already stated that intention before his appointment. Tom Sansonetti, one of the three Republican candidates selected for consideration by Freudenthal, said he would not challenge Barrasso in the primary. The other candidate for selection,
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, was a candidate for the Republican nomination to replace retiring
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for the state's at-large seat in the
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. Barrasso did not face a primary opponent. The Democratic nominee was Nick Carter, a lawyer from Gillette. Pundits unanimously rated the race "Safe Republican." As expected, Barrasso won the general election in a landslide, garnering 73% of the vote. ;2012 Barrasso ran for reelection to a first full term in 2012. He faced three opponents for the Republican nomination, which he won with 90% of the vote. In the general election, he faced Democratic nominee Tim Chestnut, a member of the Albany County
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. Barrasso won the election with 76% of the vote. ;2018 Barrasso was reelected with 67% of the vote over Teton County School Board Trustee Gary Trauner, the lowest percentage of his three U.S. Senate campaigns and the closest a Democrat came to winning the seat since the 1996 election.


Tenure

At the time of his appointment to the U.S. Senate in 2007, Barrasso was quoted as saying on his application: "I believe in
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, lower taxes, less spending, traditional family values, local control and a strong national defense"; he also said that he had "voted for prayer in schools, against
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and adsponsored legislation to protect the
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". During the
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, Barasso voted against the
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but for the PPP Extension Act and the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act.


Committee assignments

* Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Ranking Member) **As Ranking Member of the full committee, Barrasso may serve as an ex officio member of all subcommittees. * Committee on Finance ** Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure ** Subcommittee on Health Care ** Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness *
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** Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy ** Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation ** Subcommittee on Multilateral International Development, Multilateral Institutions, and International Economic, Energy and Environmental Policy ** Subcommittee on State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development (Ranking Member) ** Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues


Political positions


Abortion

When Barrasso ran for the 1996 Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, he presented himself as a supporter of abortion rights. During his tenure in the
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, he sponsored an unsuccessful bill to treat the killing of a pregnant woman as a double homicide. He has voted to prohibit federal funding for abortion.


Gun laws

In 2002, he received an "A" rating from the National Rifle Association. According to a ''Washington Post'' survey, he has voted with Republicans 94% of the time. In April 2013, Barrasso was one of 46 senators to vote against a bill that would have expanded
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for all gun buyers. He voted with 40 Republicans and 5 Democrats to stop the bill.


Health care

Barrasso voted against the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) in December 2009, and against the
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. He was part of the group of 13 senators drafting the Senate version of the
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, an Obamacare repeal bill that failed to pass.


Environment

When asked in 2014 whether human activity contributes to climate change, Barrasso said, denying the existence of the
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, "The role human activity plays is not known." In 2021, he admitted, "We believe that mankind is certainly contributing to that". The consensus is that mankind is not just contributing, but that all of climate change is anthropogenic. As of October 2020, Barrasso has a 7% lifetime score on the National Environmental Scorecard of the
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. He was a leading opponent of President
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's climate change policies. Barrasso opposed the CIA's creation of its Center on Climate Change and National Security in 2009. In 2011, he introduced a bill that would prevent the
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from limiting carbon dioxide emissions. Barrasso, Enzi and Senator
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introduced a bill to remove tax credits for electric cars. Barrasso co-authored and was one of 22 senators to sign a letter to President
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urging Trump to withdraw the United States from the
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. According to OpenSecrets, Barrasso has received over $585,000 from the oil and gas industry since 2012. In 2018 alone he received over $690,000 in funding from oil and gas companies. In 2019, Barrasso inaccurately claimed that "livestock will be banned" as a result of the
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, and said we needed to "say goodbye to dairy, to beef, to family farms, to ranches. American favorites like cheeseburgers and milkshake would become a thing of the past." In September 2020, Barrasso supported a measure to dramatically limit the use of
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s, used in refrigerants and other applications that have contributed to global warming. Sixteen other Republican U.S. Senators joined him in voting for the bill. Joint efforts by U.S. manufacturers, environmentalists, and conservative organizations appear to have persuaded those lawmakers. "This agreement protects both American consumers and American businesses," Barrasso said. "We can have clean air without damaging our economy."In rare bipartisan climate agreement, senators forge plan to slash use of potent greenhouse gas
, '' Washington Post'', Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson, September 10, 2020. Retrieved September 11, 2020.


Criminal justice

Barrasso opposed the
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, legislation which sought to reform the federal prison system. The bill passed 87–12 on December 18, 2018.


Foreign policy

Barrasso opposed the Russian-backed
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—a pipeline to deliver natural gas from Russia to Germany. Bloomberg News reported, "Congress brought forward bills authorizing the administration to levy sanctions against a consortium of five European energy companies that have partnered with ussia's main gas company
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; at least one bill, sponsored by Republican Senator John Barrasso, would make them mandatory." In May 2022, during the
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, Barrasso visited
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and met with Ukrainian president
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as a part of a U.S. Senate delegation to show support to Ukraine. The delegation also visited Finland to meet with President
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and Prime Minister
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to express support for Finland's application to join
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.


Donald Trump

After it was revealed in November 2018 that Trump had business dealings with Russia while a candidate in the 2016 election, Barrasso said, "The president is an international businessman; I’m not surprised he was doing international business." Asked whether Trump should have disclosed those business ties during the campaign, Barrasso said, "There were so many things involved in the 2016 campaign, it’s hard to point to what one thing influenced voters." Barrasso joined Trump on Thanksgiving 2019 in a surprise visit to American troops stationed at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. At the time, approximately 370 Wyoming National Guard soldiers were deployed in Europe and the Middle East, the most since 2009. In December 2019, Barrasso appeared to promote Senator John Kennedy's views supporting the discredited conspiracy theory of Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In February 2021, Barrasso opposed the
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, calling it a "partisan crusade." On February 13, 2021, Barrasso voted to acquit Trump of inciting the
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. On May 28, 2021, Barrasso voted against creating the
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. In November 2021, Barrasso refused to condemn Trump for defending January 6 rioters who called for Pence's death.


Personal life

Barrasso has three children. He is divorced from Linda Nix and married to his second wife, Bobbi Brown. On August 11, 2007, during Cheyenne's annual
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, Barrasso and Brown, herself a
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survivor and at the time the director of Barrasso's state senate offices, announced their engagement. Brown then resigned from her position in Barrasso's state Senate offices. They were married on January 1, 2008, in Thermopolis. Barrasso is a member of the board of directors of Presidential Classroom, and a member of the Casper
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. He identifies as a member of the
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.


Election history


See also

* Physicians in the United States Congress * List of United States senators from Wyoming


References


External links


Senator John Barrasso
official U.S. Senate website
John Barrasso for U.S. Senate
official campaign website * * *

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