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Senate Majority Whip — 119th Congress
John Barrasso is a Republican U.S. senator from Wyoming who has served in the Senate since 2007 after service in the Wyoming State Senate. His official Senate biography records a 24-year career as an orthopedic surgeon before his federal service.
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John Barrasso is a Republican U.S. senator from Wyoming who has served in the Senate since 2007 after service in the Wyoming State Senate. His official Senate biography records a 24-year career as an orthopedic surgeon before his federal service.
Open biography & office record ↓John Barrasso is a Republican U.S. senator from Wyoming who has served in the Senate since 2007 after service in the Wyoming State Senate. His official Senate biography records a 24-year career as an orthopedic surgeon before his federal service.
Barrasso is Senate Majority Whip in the 119th Congress, the second-ranking position in the Senate Republican leadership. His official office and Senate institutional records identify his current leadership role separately from his committee work.
The Senate’s current 119th-Congress committee roster lists Barrasso on Energy and Natural Resources, Finance, and Foreign Relations. It also lists him as chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining and chair of the Finance Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight. FactFlag keeps these institutional assignments separate from any later policy-claim or voting-record analysis.
Barrasso introduced the permitting-reform proposal on June 11, 2026. His office says the bill would change NEPA judicial review and streamline federal permitting for energy and infrastructure projects. FactFlag lists the sponsorship and stated scope as a public-record item; policy effects require separate evidence review.