Congressman Doug Lamborn issued the following statement after passage of H.R. 766, the Financial Institution Customer Protection Act: "Today, the House took another important step towards rolling back the Obama Administration's abuses of power. When the President created Operation Choke Point, he did so with the express purpose of empowering federal financial institutions to intimidate banks and other local financial entities. In particular, President Obama wanted to choke off the relationship b... Read more

Today, Congressman Doug Lamborn voted to override President Obama's veto of H.R. 3762, the Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act. "With my vote today, I pushed back against the president's flawed view of our nation's healthcare system. For his own political and legacy-building reasons, President Obama vetoed a bipartisan bill that would gut Obamacare funding, eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood, repeal the individual mandate and the medical device tax, assist th... Read more

Today Congressman Lamborn released the following statement regarding the discovery that the VA secretly paid an Illinois-based hospital director $86,000 to resign: “The fact that a member of the Senior Executive Service was paid to resign, instead of being fired for his misconduct, highlights the ineffectiveness of the Department of Veteran’s Affairs current system of accountability. It is a travesty that tax-payer dollars are being used in a manner that effectively amounts to a severance bonus ... Read more

"Despite support from a bipartisan majority in both chambers of Congress, the president has vetoed a Senate Resolution overturning the EPA's "waters of the United States rule." The WOTUS rule harms local communities, kills job growth, and strangles states' ability to regulate their own waters by inserting the federal government into every stream, pond, and ditch in America--even on private property. The president's veto is yet another example of his strategy to bypass Congress and instead use ex... Read more

“After the passage of a terrible nuclear deal opposed by the majority of Americans, and a majority in Congress, and the capture of ten American sailors, the President’s actions indicate that he is still more concerned with his standing in Iran than he is with our national security. The administration has now lifted economic sanctions that allow over $100 billion to flow into Iran. President Obama has admitted that Iran could use this money to fund terrorist activities, but he chooses to continue... Read more

This week, Congressman Doug Lamborn voted to overturn the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule. "It is not the role of the Obama Administration to arbitrarily expand the regulatory mandate of the EPA. The House and Senate have worked together to place legislation on President Obama's desk preventing the EPA from using the Clean Water Act to assert rule-making authority over virtually any body of water in the United States. This is a dangerous overreach that will have numerous adverse economi... Read more

This week, Congressman Doug Lamborn managed the debate on the House Floor ahead of final passage of H.R. 1644, the Supporting Transparent Regulatory and Environmental Actions in Mining Act. Congressman Lamborn was an original co-sponsor and was one of the leaders on this bill in the House Natural Resources Committee. “Passage of the STREAM Act halts a destructive rulemaking process from the Obama Administration and provides an avenue for collaborative approaches designed to address deficiencies ... Read more

"Tonight, we saw a speech that was President Obama's desperate attempt to remain relevant. One of the President’s main themes was “What We’ve Accomplished Together.” That is simply laughable. Barack Obama has been the most divisive president in modern American history. He was delusional on foreign policy. The President has made recent claims that he has brought “peace and security” to Syria, is “winning the fight against violent extremists,” and has “ensured” a peaceful nuclear program from Iran... Read more

Congressman Doug Lamborn issued the following statement after voting in favor of two bills that provide Americans and small businesses relief from the federal regulatory process: “You can’t give a swimmer lead weights and expect him not to sink. That’s the effect burdensome and redundant federal regulations are having on the economic potential of this nation. Yesterday in the House, we passed two common sense bills to hold federal regulations and regulators accountable for the effects these oner... Read more

Congressman Doug Lamborn issued the following statement after passage of H.R. 3762 - Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015: "Today, Congress sent a loud-and-clear message on behalf of the American people. The Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act is projected to cut the federal deficit by a half trillion dollars over the next decade by gutting Obamacare, prohibiting taxpayer dollars from going to organizations that perform abortions, and redirect... Read more