Tag: Doug Lamborn

Colorado Congressman Doug Lamborn was one of the House Republicans who spearheaded the move to threaten a government shutdown unless the Senate and President Obama agreed to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. The plan didn't work.

How did members of the Colorado delegation respond in the wake of yesterday's vote to end the standoff? They all voted for the deal, except Fifth District Republican Doug Lamborn, a member of the so-called suicide caucus.

Lamborn said he's prepared to battle over the nation's debt ceiling and that he aims to expand debate beyond funding for Obamacare to try and win sweeping budget reforms.

On Monday, Colorado Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn made his case for the government shutdown standoff in Washington. His note to constituents on the matter repeats a line of argument that has been debunked for months.

Friday morning, House Republicans voted again nearly unanimously to defund Obamacare, this time as part of a short-term spending bill necessary to keep government offices open and government services running.

Already, national media outlets are pointing out that Colorado's four Republican congressmen voted against disaster relief funding for Hurricane Sandy victims in January.

Mike Coffman, Republican representative of Colorado's now toss-up Sixth Congressional District, is drawing fire from long-established national environmental group the League of Conservation Voters.

Colorado U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn is pressing to lift restrictions that keep coal mining companies from conducting operations within 100 feet of streams.

Conservation groups announced Thursday that they have collected more than 2 million comments — almost 50,000 of them from Coloradans — supporting this week's landmark ruling by a federal appeals court that upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rules for greenhouse gases.

The nine-member Colorado delegation to Washington announced today it is working together as a bipartisan group to wring as much help as it can from the federal government to address the wildfires presently raging across the state, fouling the air across hundreds of miles of the Front Range, racking up enormous sums in damages and displacing tens of thousands of residents.