Honorable John Barrasso
United States Senator, Wyoming, Republican
Senator Barrasso was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2007. He served in the Wyoming Senate from 2002 to 2007. He sits on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee, the Foreign Relations Committee, and the Indian Affairs Committee. The following statement is from a May 11, 2010, hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on the Economic and Environmental Impacts of the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. There is no coastline in Wyoming. But we know quite a bit about energy production, about treasured landscapes, and about wildlife…
