John Barrasso

I'm telling you, as a doctor who spent about half of his time in the office taking care of our seniors on Medicare, it is a program that intentions to work are much better than the way it's working today in terms of practicality.

You just never know what the Supreme Court is going to do.

I was in the state Senate in Wyoming, and we actually legislated. We offered amendments on bills and voted on things.

Building power plants would do more to lift people out of poverty than the Green Climate Fund ever will.

In an agreement with China, President Obama has already pledged to reduce America's net greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 25% by 2025. In return, China has agreed to 'peak' its carbon-dioxide emissions in 2030.

The Obama administration has already imposed burdensome regulations - for instance, the sprawling Clean Power Plan aimed at wiping out the coal industry - that will raise the cost of energy and put hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work.

President Obama wants a climate deal and is willing to pay dearly to get it.

It will be up to Congress to check the president's ambition of committing the U.S. to an international green scheme that will produce little or no return.

We can't have a third Obama term, which is what electing Hillary Clinton would do.

Energy is called 'the master resource' for a reason.

When the president decides that he knows better than you know what's good for you or your family, we've got trouble in this country.

We keep spending money and sending it overseas when we should be developing American energy.

Whenever Washington makes a one-size-fits-all decision, it doesn't work in states all around the country.

The states ought to be the ones making the decisions about the individual mandate, the employer mandate, all of the different requirements of what kind of insurance people have to have.

When it comes to international trade, the question is, who is going to write the rules, the United States or China? And my vote is the United States.

The concern is that Iraq could actually ultimately defeat ISIS, but Iran will have taken over the country, because it will be their military, their boots on the ground controlling the ground.

I've been calling for the support of the Syrian rebels for years.

Everywhere I travel around my home state of Wyoming - but also around the country - I continue to hear, 'How can Washington make us buy something we don't want to buy, a product? They can't tell us to buy breakfast cereal or something else - how can they do that?'

Washington agencies are now trying a backdoor approach to regulate our climate by abusing existing laws.

The whole future, I think, of Wyoming and the economy has to do with coal and our clean coal technology, and we're going to have the ability here in Wyoming to deal with all of the things of this so-called climate change.

Humans are contributing to additional carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

There are billions of barrels of oil in the Outer Continental Shelf. There is even more in Alaska. There is enough oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West alone to power America for the next hundred years. The Democrats say all this American energy is off limits.

The EPA has a history of overreaching its authority.

Obamacare is, 'Patient, heal yourself.'

Families will now have to prove to the IRS that they have Washington-approved and government-mandated insurance.

America is facing a looming shortage of doctors, nurses, and physicians' assistants.

As a doctor who took care of patients for 25 years, I saw the problems with America's health care system every day.

Most Americans want their government to be smaller, not larger; they want their taxes to be lower, not higher.

Americans want real solutions and good jobs.

Keystone would allow us to transport 700,000 barrels of oil a day from our northern neighbor Canada to refineries in the United States.

ISIS already has strongholds in Syria, while the Free Syrian Army desperately needs more U.S. assistance.

A culture of intimidation has no justification in any administration.

As Secretary of State, we need someone with sound judgment, ask tough questions, and should not be willing to just read talking points.

Instead of giving preference to oil imported from overseas, Washington should look to North American coal, oil shale and oil sands, all of which provide an affordable, abundant and alternative source of fuel. In addition to increasing cost effectiveness options for the government, it will also increase America's energy security.

States that scrap their state-run Obamacare exchanges are admitting they've wasted millions of dollars in federal grants. It's only fair that states have to pay American taxpayers and the federal government back for their total incompetence.

The National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 needs to be updated to reflect our growing communities.

The EPA's climate change regulations are based on compromised scientific reports and heavily flawed data.

Russia's actions in Syria are not the only reasons to distrust Mr. Putin. Moscow has opposed attempts by the U.N. in November 2011 to increase sanctions against Iran for its illicit nuclear program.

When the Obama administration announced its 'reset' of relations with Russia in 2009, Americans never expected that it would include making Vladimir Putin the de facto U.S. ambassador to Syria in 2013.

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

As the 2016 presidential race kicks off, candidates on both sides of the aisle are promising to stand up for the middle class. Voters deserve to know that anyone who champions Obamacare cannot honestly say she or he is also a champion of middle-class Americans.

For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.

For people who don't know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. I've been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor.

Each and every day, more people pay the price of Obamacare's mountain of mandates. As I travel across the country, I continue to hear from Americans who want Washington to take its hands off of their healthcare.

I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.

What people are seeing is that the cost of their care and their insurance is going up faster since Obamacare has been passed than if the healthcare law had not been passed at all.

Illegal immigration continues to be a major problem in the United States. We have people waiting to come here legally. And we should not be rewarding people who have come here illegally.

I have to tell you as a doctor, 25 years of practice, not as a politician using talking points, as somebody who has taken care of Medicare patients, we can make it a lot better.

We need to save and strengthen and fix Medicare. Seniors realize Medicare is broken.

An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.