1. Douglas Lawrence Lamborn was born on May 24,1954 and is an American attorney and politician who served as the US representative for from 2007 to 2025.
37 Facts About Doug Lamborn
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On January 5,2024, Lamborn announced he would not seek re-election in 2024.
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Doug Lamborn moved to Colorado Springs and became a private attorney focusing on business and real estate law.
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In 1994, Doug Lamborn was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives.
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Doug Lamborn served in the Colorado Senate until winning a seat in the United States Congress.
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Doug Lamborn was the ranking Republican on the Colorado State Military and Veterans Affairs, and Appropriations committees.
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Doug Lamborn ran on conservative positions: opposing gun control, abortion except when the mother's life is threatened, federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, denying public benefits to illegal immigrants, and new eminent domain rulings.
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Doug Lamborn defeated Lieutenant Colonel Jay Fawcett, the Democratic nominee for the open seat in Colorado's 5th congressional district, on November 7,2006.
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Doug Lamborn won the primary election on August 12,2008, with 45 percent of the 56,171 votes cast.
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Doug Lamborn defeated Democratic challenger Lieutenant Colonel Hal Bidlack in the 2008 election.
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Doug Lamborn was challenged by Democratic nominee Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Bradley.
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Doug Lamborn was challenged in the Republican primary by businessman Robert Blaha.
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Doug Lamborn had the support of Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum political action committee.
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Doug Lamborn was challenged by Democratic nominee Major General Irv Halter.
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In January 2018, Doug Lamborn announced he would run for reelection in the 2018 elections.
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Doug Lamborn faced and defeated three challengers in the Republican primary.
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Doug Lamborn led an effort among conservative Republicans to force the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to discard proposed regulations that would have affected accessibility to small arms ammunition, which were opposed by Second Amendment groups.
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Doug Lamborn was one of the House Republicans leading the effort against public funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and NPR.
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Doug Lamborn is a signer of Americans for Tax Reform's Taxpayer Protection Pledge.
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In 2008 Doug Lamborn signed a pledge sponsored by Americans for Prosperity promising to vote against any global warming legislation that would raise taxes.
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Doug Lamborn voted in favor of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
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Doug Lamborn said the bill would benefit craft beer breweries, many of which are in Colorado.
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Doug Lamborn claimed the bill simplified the tax code such that people would be filing taxes by "sending a postcard".
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On July 29,2011, Doug Lamborn appeared on a Denver radio program to discuss the debt crisis and the failure of Democrats and Republicans to reach a compromise on the problem.
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On January 23,2012, Doug Lamborn announced he would not attend Obama's State of the Union address.
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Doug Lamborn is one of the 80 members of the House who signed a letter to the Speaker urging the threat of a government shutdown to defund Obamacare.
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Doug Lamborn voted against the measure that finally ended the shutdown on October 16,2013.
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Doug Lamborn supported President Donald Trump's 2017 executive order to impose a temporary ban on entry to the US to citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.
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Doug Lamborn was among GOP members of the House who did not support Speaker Paul Ryan's March 2017 effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
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Doug Lamborn was one of only two members of the Colorado delegation to vote to reject Pennsylvania's Electoral College votes in the 2020 presidential election, even after the violent takeover of Congress by Trump supporters.
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In December 2022, Business Insider reported that Doug Lamborn had violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012, a federal transparency and conflict-of-interest law, by failing to properly disclose trades of stock in NetApp by him and his wife worth between $68,000 and $120,000.
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Doug Lamborn has described Common Core as "deeply flawed" and claimed that it "lowers educational standards," and removes parental influence over children's educations.
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In December 2020, Lamborn was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated incumbent Donald Trump.
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Doug Lamborn believes federal fees that impact the energy industry regarding climate change should not exist.
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Doug Lamborn is anti-abortion, "does not support amnesty of any kind", and supports further efforts to secure the border.
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The lawsuit alleges Doug Lamborn allowed his son to live in the Capitol basement while he was relocating to Washington for work.
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The lawsuit asserted that Doug Lamborn often called the pandemic a "hoax," lied to a Capitol physician, asked aides to run family errands, including loading furniture to be moved to their vacation home, and had aides assist his son in completing applications for federal jobs.