WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Barrasso (R-Wyo.) issued the following statement regarding Cass Sunstein, nominee for the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget:
The Administrator has broad responsibility and authority across the U.S. government. Past comments by Cass Sunstein are very concerning.
Cass Sunstein has made an academic career out of attacking Second Amendment rights, wildlife resource management and agriculture. These are values we stand for in Wyoming.
There is no doubt that what he has said is out of touch with Wyoming values and those of mainstream America. Cass Sunstein’s views may be right at home at Harvard, but there is no home for them in Wyoming.
Cass Sunstein in his own words:
"Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine…. [O]n the Constitution’s text, should not be so confident in their enthusiasm for invalidating gun control legislation."
"We could even grant animals a right to bring suit without insisting that animals are persons, or that they are not property," Sunstein said on page 11 of Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions (2004).
"On health care policy and cost-effectiveness analysis he said “likely result in significantly lower [health] benefits calculations for elderly people, and significantly higher benefits calculations for children. I urge that the government should indeed focus on life-years rather than lives. A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people."