John Barrasso Quotes
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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.
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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.
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You want to continue with the social safety net: the good, the bad and the ugly parts of that, you have to have a vibrant economy. You have to have growth of the economy.
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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.
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The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama's health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out.
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As a doctor who took care of patients for 25 years, I saw the problems with America's health care system every day.
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We need to focus on getting people back to work, focus on jobs, the economy, the debt and the spending. That's what will improve the quality of life for American families and for hard-working taxpayers.
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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.
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We keep spending money and sending it overseas when we should be developing American energy.
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An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.
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Building power plants would do more to lift people out of poverty than the Green Climate Fund ever will.
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I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.
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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.
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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.
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I've been calling for the support of the Syrian rebels for years.
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I know how critical it is to make sure that people with pre-existing conditions have affordable insurance, and states are able to do that.
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The EPA has a history of overreaching its authority.
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ISIS already has strongholds in Syria, while the Free Syrian Army desperately needs more U.S. assistance.
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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.
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Washington agencies are now trying a backdoor approach to regulate our climate by abusing existing laws.
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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.
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We need to save and strengthen and fix Medicare. Seniors realize Medicare is broken.
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Keystone would allow us to transport 700,000 barrels of oil a day from our northern neighbor Canada to refineries in the United States.
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We need an attorney general for the people, not a presidential protector and puppet of the administration.