Dear
Friends,
The AIG
bonus scandal has dominated the economic debate
and the news cycle this week. The behavior of
AIG executives funding enormous bonuses with
taxpayer money is outrageous.
When the
bailout debate started last September, I thought
the three core principles we must adhere to
should be accountability, transparency and
oversight on government spending. It is obvious
these principles have not been met.
AIG
must be held accountable to its biggest
shareholder – the American taxpayer. AIG and its
executives must be willing to make sacrifices to
try and regain the public trust.
Best
wishes,
U.S. Senator John
Barrasso
Senator
Barrasso in the News
Senator
Barrasso Talks with MSNBC's David
Shuster
Senator
Barrasso Talks with Liz Claman & Liz
MacDonald of FOX Business
Senator
Barrasso's Speech on the Administration's Budget
Proposal
News from
Senator Barrasso's Office
State Leaders Make Case
for F.E. Warren to House Nuclear Warfare
Command
March 17,
2009
Washington, D.C. - The Air Force is
shopping around for a home for the new Global
Strike Command Center (GSCC) that will oversee
all nuclear missions for the Air Force. In order
to further make the case that Wyoming’s F.E.
Warren Air Force Base is the ideal location for
the command, Governor Dave Freudenthal, U.S.
Senators Mike Enzi and John Barrasso and
Representative Cynthia Lummis met with the
Secretary of the Air Force today in Washington,
D.C.
Click
here to read more...
Barrasso Votes No on David
Hayes Nomination to be Deputy Secretary of
Department of the Interior
March
18, 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator John
Barrasso (R-Wyo.) today voted against the
nomination of David Hayes to be the deputy
secretary of the Department of the Interior
(DOI) in a Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Committee markup. Hayes held the same position
under former Secretary of the Interior Bruce
Babbitt.
Click
here to read
more...
Barrasso Statement on the
President’s Speech on Credit Problems Facing
Small Businesses
March 16,
2009
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John
Barrasso (R-Wyo.), a member of the Republican
Whip team, made the following statement in
response to the President’s speech today on the
credit problems facing small
businesses:
“The President is right to
focus on America’s small businesses to get
credit flowing again. Small business is
the engine room that drives our
economy."
Click
here to read
more...
