John Barrasso

“Americans want real solutions and good jobs.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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?'”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”