Barrasso first ran for U.S. Senate in 1996, narrowly losing the Republican primary to Mike Enzi. 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 2008 and reelected in 2012 and 2018. In 2018, Barrasso was selected as chair of the Senate Republican Conference. He is the dean of Wyoming's congressional delegation.
Early life, education, and medical career
Barrasso was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on July 21, 1952,[1] the son of Louise M. (née DeCisco) and John Anthony Barrasso Jr.[citation needed] Barrasso's father was a cement finisher who had a ninth-grade education.[2] Barrasso is a third-generation Italian-American with paternal grandparents from Carife and maternal grandparents from Vasto.[3][4]
In 1983, after completing his residency at Yale, Barrasso moved to Wyoming with his then-wife, Linda Nix.[2] He joined a private orthopedic practice in Casper and for a time was the Wyoming Medical Center's chief of staff.[2] Barrasso was a board-certified orthopedic surgeon in private practice in Casper from 1983 to 2007.[8][9][better source needed] He has served as president of the Wyoming Medical Society.[10] Barrasso was also a rodeo physician for the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association[11] (and a member of the "Cowboy Joe Club") and volunteered as a team physician for Casper College and several local high schools.[8][better source needed]
Barrasso ran for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 1996 for the seat being vacated by Republican Alan K. Simpson, losing narrowly to State SenatorMike Enzi, 32% to 30%, in a nine-candidate election.[12] Enzi garnered support due to his pro-life stance, while Barrasso—who had been expected to win the primary—identified as pro-choice at the time.[2][13]
Wyoming Senate
Barrasso was elected to the Wyoming Senate unopposed in 2002[14] and reelected unopposed in 2006. He represented Wyoming's 27th Senate District.[15] During his State Senate tenure, he chaired the Transportation and Highways Committee.[16]
U.S. Senate
Appointment
On June 22, 2007, Governor Dave Freudenthal appointed Barrasso to replace Senator Craig L. Thomas, who had died in office 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 Cynthia Lummis of Cheyenne, and former Republican state chairman and Justice Department attorney Tom Sansonetti.[17]
Barrasso ran for reelection to a first full term in 2012. He faced two opponents for the Republican nomination, which he won with 90% of the vote.[19] In the general election, he defeated Democratic nominee Tim Chestnut with 76% of the vote.[20]
Barrasso faced Dave Dodson and four other challengers in the 2018 Republican primary; he won the primary with 65% of the vote.[21] Barrasso defeated Democrat Gary Trauner and Libertarian Joseph Porambo in the general election, receiving 67% of the vote.[22]
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 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".[23]
When Barrasso ran for the 1996 Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, he presented himself as a supporter of abortion rights.[30][2] Following his loss in 1996, Barrasso's position on abortion (and on other issues) shifted in a conservative direction.[2]
During his tenure in the Wyoming Legislature, Barrasso sponsored an unsuccessful bill to treat the killing of a pregnant woman as a double homicide.[2] He has voted to prohibit federal funding for abortion.[31]
Gun laws
In April 2013, Barrasso was one of 46 senators to vote against a bill that would have expanded background checks for all gun buyers. He voted with 40 Republicans and five Democrats to stop the bill.[32]
When asked in 2014 whether human activity contributes to climate change, Barrasso denied the existence of the scientific consensus on climate change, saying that "the role human activity plays is not known."[39][40] In 2021, he admitted, "We believe that mankind is certainly contributing" to climate change.[41]
Barrasso was a leading opponent of President Barack Obama's climate change policies.[42]
Barrasso opposed the CIA's creation of its Center on Climate Change and National Security in 2009.[43] In 2011, he introduced a bill that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from limiting carbon dioxide emissions.[44]
Barrasso and Senators Mike Enzi and Pat Roberts introduced a bill to remove tax credits for electric cars.[45]
According to OpenSecrets, as of 2017, Barrasso had received over $585,000 from the oil and gas industry since 2012.[46]
In 2019, Barrasso inaccurately claimed that "livestock will be banned" as a result of the Green New Deal, 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."[47]
In September 2020, Barrasso supported a measure to dramatically limit the use of hydrofluorocarbons used in refrigerants and other applications that have contributed to global warming.[48]
In November 2022, Barrasso criticized China's "developing country advantage" in international climate agreements, arguing that China is given unfair privileges in climate agreements that do not reflect its economic growth.[49]
Criminal justice
Barrasso opposed the FIRST STEP Act, legislation which sought to reform the federal prison system. The bill passed 87–12 on December 18, 2018.[50]
Foreign policy
Barrasso opposed the Russian-backed Nord Stream 2—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 [Russia's main gas company] Gazprom; at least one bill, sponsored by Republican Senator John Barrasso, would make them mandatory."[51] In May 2022, during the Russo-Ukrainian War, Barrasso visited Kyiv and met with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a part of a U.S. Senate delegation to show support to Ukraine.[52] The delegation also visited Finland to meet with President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Sanna Marin to express support for Finland's application to join NATO.[53]
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."[54][55] Trump joined Barrasso 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.[56]
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.[57]
Barrasso has three children. He is divorced from Linda Nix.[63][64] On August 11, 2007, during Cheyenne's annual Race for the Cure, Barrasso and Bobbi Brown, herself a breast cancer 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.[65] They were married on January 1, 2008, in Thermopolis.[66] Brown died of brain cancer on January 25, 2024.[67] She was known for being an advocate on mental health and suicide prevention.[68]
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