John Barrasso Biography

John Barrasso born John Anthony Barrasso III is an American physician and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Wyoming and a member of the Republican Party.

He was appointed to the Senate in June 2007, following the death of Craig L. Thomas, and won a special election in 2008 to fill the remaining four years of Thomas’s term.

He was re-elected to a full six-year term in 2012. In November 2018, Barrasso was elected to serve as Senate Republican Conference chairman.

John Barrasso Age

He was born on 21 July 1952 in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. He is 66 years old as of 2018.

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Barrasso has three children: Peter, Emma, and Hadley. He is divorced from Linda Nix. Barrasso is married to his second wife, Bobbi Brown.

On August 11, 2007, during Cheyenne’s annual Race for the Cure, Barrasso and Brown, herself a breast cancer survivor and at the time, the state director for Barrasso’s state senate offices, announced that they would marry.

Once the two were engaged, Brown resigned her position in Barrasso’s state Senate offices. They were married on January 1, 2008, with their children in attendance in Thermopolis.

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Barrasso ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 1996 for the seat being vacated by Republican Alan K. Simpson. Barrasso lost the primary election to State Senator Mike Enzi, 32% to 30%, in a seven-candidate election.

Barrasso was elected to the Wyoming Senate unopposed in 2002 and won re-election unopposed in 2006. During his time in the State Senate he served as Chairman of the Transportation and Highways Committee.

Appointment
Barrasso was chosen on June 22, 2007, by Democratic Governor Dave Freudenthal to replace Senator Craig L. Thomas, who died earlier in the month.

Under state law, Freudenthal was able to consider only three individuals whose names were submitted to him by the Republican State Central Committee because the seat was vacated by a Republican.

The others were former State Treasurer Cynthia Lummis of Cheyenne, later Wyoming’s only member of the United States House of Representatives, and former Republican State Chairman and lobbyist Tom Sansonetti, a former aide to Thomas.

Matt Mead, grandson of former Senator Clifford P. Hansen, had also sought the nomination but was eliminated by the central committee in fourth place. So had the previous gubernatorial nominee from 2006, Ray Hunkins, a Wheatland rancher and lawyer.

Mead later went on to be elected Governor of Wyoming in 2010, and Lummis was elected to Congress in 2008. When he was appointed, Barrasso indicated that he would also run in the November 2008 special election to fill the remainder of Thomas’ 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’ 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, Cynthia Lummis, was a candidate for the Republican nomination to replace retiring U.S. Representative Barbara Cubin for the state’s at-large seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The filing deadline in Wyoming was May 30, 2008, and ultimately 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 re-election 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 Board of Commissioners. Barrasso won the election with 76% of the vote.

Tenure
At the time of his temporary appointment to the U.S. Senate for Wyoming in 2007, 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 prayer in schools, against gay marriage and [had] sponsored legislation to protect the sanctity of life”.

Abortion
In 1996, when Barrasso ran for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate for Wyoming he presented himself during the primary as a candidate in favor of abortion rights.

Subsequently, during his tenure in the Wyoming Legislature, he sponsored an unsuccessful bill to treat the killing of a pregnant woman as a double homicide.

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 percent of the time.

In April 2013, Barrasso was one of 46 senators to vote against the passing of a bill which would have expanded background checks for all gun buyers. Barrasso voted with 40 Republicans and 5 Democrats to stop the bill.

Health care
Barrasso voted against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in December 2009, and he voted against the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.

Barrasso is part of the group of 13 Senators drafting the Senate version of the AHCA behind closed doors.

Environmentalism
Barrasso opposed the CIA’s creation of its Center on Climate Change and National Security in 2009. In 2011, Barrasso introduced a bill that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from limiting carbon dioxide emissions.

Barrasso is an outspoken contrarian on climate change. Asked in 2014 on the C-SPAN interview program Newsmakers if human activity contributes to climate change, Barrasso said, “The climate is constantly changing.

The role human activity plays is not known.” As of January 2017 Barrasso has a 9% lifetime score on the National Environmental Scorecard of the League of Conservation Voters.

Barrasso was a leading critic of the climate change policies of the administration of US President Barack Obama.

Paris Agreement
Barrasso co-authored and was one of 22 senators to sign a letter to President Donald Trump urging the President to have the United States withdraw from the Paris Agreement.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Barrasso has received over $585,000 from the oil and gas industry since 2012.

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He is not a gay. He is husband to Bobbi Brown and has three children.

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Barrasso was elected to the Wyoming Senate unopposed in 2002 and won re-election unopposed in 2006. During his time in the State Senate he served as Chairman of the Transportation and Highways Committee.

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Barrasso: Senate Will Confirm Judges ‘With or Without Jeff Flake’

Retiring senator vows to boycott GOP judicial nominees.

Updated on: 15 November 2018.

Sen. John Barrasso, the newly-elected chair of the Senate Republican Conference, said the GOP is committed to confirming judicial nominees with or without a vote from Sen. Jeff Flake.

Flake (R-Ariz.), who’s retiring in January, has vowed to pull support for all federal judicial nominees — including 21 pending in the Judiciary Committee and 32 awaiting a vote on the Senate floor — unless the Senate’s GOP leadership permits consideration of legislation to expand protections for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s job.

Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said this appears to be Flake’s “go-to play,” noting that he made a similar move over the summer in an attempt to force GOP leadership to hold a tariff vote.

“We are going to fulfill our constitutional responsibility, confirming judges, confirming members of the president’s team. And we’re going to do that with or without Jeff Flake,” Barrasso said on “America’s Newsroom” Thursday.

He said Flake’s legislation — which is also backed by Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) — is unnecessary because there is “no threat” to Mueller’s investigation.

He said he has “great confidence” that the Russia probe will come to a conclusion, and he hopes that happens “pretty quickly.”

“This isn’t what the American people want. The American people want results, they want action, they want a strong and healthy economy,” Barrasso said.

Adopted from: insider.foxnews.com