Doug Lamborn

I understand that raising my child as a single mom that things are difficult sometimes.

Despite rhetoric from this Administration and its Democratic Members here in Congress, anti-energy and anti-human policies have increased the cost of energy.

I expect and hope that Congress will once again overrule that impulse and continue the funding and research on this, and do--on this critical capability.

I sincerely hope that this committee will oppose any attempt to move this bill forward, as it would be the demise of wildlife conservation in North America.

This Range Access Act helps to solve a more modern problem.

What most people do not realize is that this funding is generated through an excise tax on firearms, ammunition, and equipment.

This bill will achieve this goal.

Airmen in nuclear-coded billets are reporting elevated rates of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.

In the 2030s, both the ICBM and submarine-leg of the triad will be recapitalizing at the same time; do you think it would be prudent to invest and improve the readiness of the bomber force?

The Air Force's position has been that it should purchase at least 100 B-21 bombers--how many do you think we'll need?

Can you describe the process for uploading Minuteman III ICBMs? What would this look like in practice?

The 3M Company has announced it will discontinue use of a category of substances known as 'PFAS' by the end of 2025.

My priorities as we put together the fiscal year 2024 budget are that we keep the current nuclear modernization program of record on track.

The 2022 Nuclear Posture Review eliminated 'hedge against an uncertain future' as a formal role of nuclear weapons.

When a wildfire is threatening your constituents' community, they become panicked, they are scared.

There are some out there who oppose this legislation who have never been on the fire line.

Congress needs to step in to maintain the status quo and codify the 30-year exemption for the use of fire retardant.

Why at this time the Defense Production Act being deployed by the President, what need is it because you usually do that when, A, it is not there, B, industry is unwilling to do this.

It is just that this whole process I think needs to be reformed.

I think that is an abuse.

We cannot support a monument on our homelands that does not include the tribe.

They moved forward at the monument on our homelands without including us. They talk about tribal consultation, but their actions do not match their word.

In fact, the Republicans whose area this encompassed were opposed to this. A lot of civic groups and citizens were opposed.

By contrast, we have the Antiquities Act, and we have Presidential proclamations, executive orders designated what started out as antiquities and has morphed into hundreds of thousands or millions of acres of designations by the Executive…

I am honored to be the chairman of this subcommittee, and privileged to be the first person from Colorado to hold this position.