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Doug Lamborn
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Colorado's 5th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 4, 2007
Preceded byJoel Hefley
Personal details
Political partyRepublican
SpouseJeanie Lamborn

Doug Lamborn (born May 24, 1954, Leavenworth, Kansas) is a Republican politician for the U.S. state of Colorado. He currently serves in the United States House of Representatives as the Congressman for Colorado's 5th congressional district.

Lamborn attended the University of Kansas as a National Merit Scholar, where he received a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1978 and graduated with his Juris Doctor in 1986. Lamborn practiced law as an attorney before entering politics. In 1995, he was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives and was elected Republican Whip in 1997. He successfully ran for a Colorado Senate seat in 1998, where he was elected President Pro-tem in 1999. Lamborn served in the Colorado Senate until winning a seat in Congress.[1] Lamborn was the ranking Republican on the Colorado State Military and Veterans Affairs, and Appropriations committees. While in the State Senate Lamborn sponsored the largest tax cut in Colorado State History, [2] and was named the highest-ranking tax cutter in the Senate five times, by the Colorado Union of Taxpayers.[1]

Lamborn has a conservative voting record [3] and opposes gun control, abortion except when the mother's life is threatened, federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, providing public benefits to illegal immigrants, and is an opponent of the new eminent domain rulings.[4]

2006 Election

Main article: Colorado 5th congressional district election, 2006

On February 16, 2006, Joel Hefley announced he would retire after 10 terms in Congress.[5] In the August 8 2006 Republican primary, Lamborn defeated five other candidates to win the party nomination. Outside organizations ran ads for and against the candidates in the race, some of whose claims were disputed in the close contest, creating contention. Lamborn clarified his own role: "The strongest thing I ever said about my opponents in debate was that some tried to raise taxes," he said. "I'm respectful of other people."[6]

Lamborn earned the endorsement in the primary of numerous national organizations, including National Right to Life, National Rifle Association, Gunowners of America, Club for Growth, National Right to Work, Eagle Forum and Minuteman PAC. The Democratic nominee for the open seat in Colorado's 5th congressional district was Jay Fawcett. Lamborn won the election on November 7 2006 with 59% voting for Lamborn and 40% voting for Fawcett.

2008 Election

Jeff Crank and Bentley Rayburn have both announced that they will challenge Lamborn in the 2008 Republican primary. Both lost to Lamborn in the 2006 primary.

Accomplishments

In the 110th Congress, Lamborn is serving on the Armed Services, Natural Resources and Veterans Affairs committees. He is the only freshman Republican to gain a seat on the Armed Services Committee. As well, Lamborn is one of only nine freshmen out of more than 50 to be given either a chairmanship or ranking member status of a subcommittee. [7]

Lamborn has accumulated a conservative voting record. Congressional quarterly said that through the first August recess, Lamborn had voted against the Democrat agenda in the U.S. House more than any other Republican.[3] Lamborn led an effort among conservative Republicans to force the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to discard proposed regulations that would have affected accessibility to small arms ammunition, which were opposed by Second Amendment groups.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b About Rep. Lamborn Retrieved May 10, 2007
  2. ^ The Club For Growth — Doug Lamborn — Colorado's 5th District Retrieved May 11, 2007
  3. ^ a b Giroux, Greg (August 10, 2007). "CQPolitics.com Candidate Watch". Congressional Quarterly.
  4. ^ Rep. Elect Doug Lamborn Congressional Quarterly November 8, 2006
  5. ^ Sprengelmeyer, M.E. (17 Feb 2006). "Hefley calls it a career". Rocky Mountain News.
  6. ^ Foster, Dick (October 18, 2006). "Reagan's vision drew Lamborn to political life". Rocky Mountain News.
  7. ^ Congressman Doug Lamborn To Serve As Acting Ranking Member Of The Water And Power Subcommittee Representative Doug Lamborn. May 23, 2007. Retrieved October 19, 2007
  8. ^ Labor Department Announces It Will Revise Overreaching OSHA Explosives Rule Retrieved September 24, 2007 
 9. Kouri, Jim. "Republican Jeff Crank Unfairly Attacked by Christian Coalition of Colorado,"                
    http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/16576.html, August 1, 2006.



Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Colorado's 5th congressional district
2007–present 		Incumbent

Template:Colorado delegation to the 110th Congress

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