Representative Doug Lamborn
United States Representative, Colorado, Republican
Representative Lamborn, of the Fifth District of Colorado, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006. He served in the Colorado House of Representatives from 1994 to 1998 and in the Colorado Senate from 1998 to 2006. He sits on the Armed Services Committee; the Natural Resources Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources; and the Veterans’ Affairs Committee. The following is from the March 17, 2011, House floor debate on H.R. 1076, to prohibit Federal funding of National Public Radio (NPR) and the use of Federal funds to acquire radio content. I…