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John Barrasso
American
Politician
Born:
Jul 21
,
1952
American
Care
Country
People
Will
You
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America is facing a looming shortage of doctors, nurses, and physicians' assistants.
John Barrasso
Doctors
Nurses
Facing
Physicians
Looming
America
Shortage
Assistants
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.
John Barrasso
Vote
States
Rules
Write
Trade
Question
Going
China
Who
International
International Trade
United
United States
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.
John Barrasso
Waiting
People
Problem
Immigration
States
Major
Come
Major Problem
Legally
Rewarding
Should
Illegal
Who
Illegal Immigration
United
United States
Here
Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.
John Barrasso
Crime
Self-Defense
Think
Sign
Carrying
Weapon
Concealed
A culture of intimidation has no justification in any administration.
John Barrasso
Culture
Intimidation
Administration
Any
Justification
Energy is called 'the master resource' for a reason.
John Barrasso
Master
Energy
Resource
Reason
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.
John Barrasso
Me
People
Surgeon
Cancer
Care
Wife
Medicine
State
Our
Hospital
Taking
Know
Practiced
Been
Years
Chief
Families
Survivor
Staff
Breast Cancer
Who
Largest
My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well.
John Barrasso
Life
Generation
Battle
School
Gone
President
Spent
Ninth
Guy
Had
Pushing
Well
Does
Always
His
Wet
America
American
Grade
Quit
Any
Legislation
Wheel
Cement
Heavy
Want
Succeed
Means
Barrels
Dad
Fought
Now
I'm fortunate to live in Wyoming, one of the most beautiful, pristine places in the world.
John Barrasso
Beautiful
World
Most Beautiful
Live
Most
Pristine
Places
Fortunate
The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama's health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out.
John Barrasso
Health
Law
Care
President
Out
Obama
Find
About
More
Like
Majority
Health Care
American
Want
Barack
Less
I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.
John Barrasso
You
Conservative
Believe
Something
More
Get
Tax
Less
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.
John Barrasso
You
Doctor
Better
Care
Somebody
Practice
Politician
Tell
Points
Taken
Make
Talking
Years
Lot
Patients
Who
Using
Medicare
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.
John Barrasso
People
Law
Care
Faster
Has-Been
Obamacare
Seeing
Cost
Had
Since
Insurance
Healthcare
Passed
Been
Up
Than
Going
We need to level the playing field so that people who buy insurance individually at the same tax rates as those who buy it than get it through work. We need to be able to let people to shop across state lines for better deals with insurance that works for them and their family, not something the government says they have to have.
John Barrasso
Work
Buy
Government
Family
People
Better
Field
State
Those
Says
Able
Something
Rates
Through
Individually
Insurance
Deals
Lines
Than
Get
Same
Shop
Tax
Tax Rates
Them
Across
Who
Works
Level
Playing
Playing Field
Need
Congress is the appropriate place to make laws about our country's immigration policy; it is not something that the president gets to decide on his own.
John Barrasso
Immigration
Country
Own
Congress
President
Our
Appropriate
Immigration Policy
About
Something
Laws
Make
Policy
His
Gets
Decide
Place
I haven't changed any of my investments since I've been in the Senate and haven't purchased any stocks since I've been in the Senate.
John Barrasso
Changed
Purchased
Investments
Since
Been
Stocks
Senate
Any
The priority is to put bills on the president's desk that will move the country forward.
John Barrasso
Will
Country
President
Put
Priority
Move
Forward
Bills
Desk
Republicans aren't interested in a one-sentence fix unless that sentence is, 'Obamacare is repealed.'
John Barrasso
Unless
Obamacare
Fix
Interested
Republicans
Sentence
The Obama administration seems to have lost the will to win. The terrorists have not.
John Barrasso
Win
Will
Lost
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Seems
Terrorists
ISIS already has strongholds in Syria, while the Free Syrian Army desperately needs more U.S. assistance.
John Barrasso
Needs
Army
Free
Desperately
Syria
Syrian
More
While
Assistance
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?'
John Barrasso
Buy
Home
Travel
Country
Breakfast
Else
State
Everywhere
Tell
Something
Something Else
Also
Make
Around
How
Continue
Hear
Want
Breakfast Cereal
Cereal
Us
Product
Home State
Washington
The Constitution is clear, Article I, Section 8, power vetted in Congress to declare war. If you go back to the founding documents of this nation, the decision of going to war was to be made by people closest to the ground - the elected officials - to make those decisions.
John Barrasso
War
You
Constitution
People
Decision
Made
Power
Nation
Congress
Back
Those
Section
Clear
Make
Documents
Go
Article
Officials
Closest
Going
Decisions
Declare
Elected
Elected Officials
Ground
Founding
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.
John Barrasso
Will
Country
Controlling
Military
Defeat
Boots
Could
Taken
Over
Concern
Because
Iran
Ultimately
Iraq
Ground
Actually
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.
John Barrasso
People
Ought
States
Kind
About
Individual
Employer
Insurance
Making
Mandate
Different
Decisions
Requirements
We keep spending money and sending it overseas when we should be developing American energy.
John Barrasso
Money
Energy
Spending
Spending Money
Developing
Overseas
American
Sending
Should
Keep
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.
John Barrasso
Will
Ambition
Congress
President
Scheme
Check
Return
Up
Green
Committing
Little
Produce
International
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