The I-70 shutdown shows why our country needs real infrastructure investments—not a liberal slush-fund that pays for salmon habitat restoration, electric school buses, the ‘Civilian Climate Corps,’ and other wasteful programs that have nothing to do with infrastructure.

Instead of supporting the Green New Deal-lite infrastructure spending spree, I introduced the American Infrastructure Modernization Act to repurpose the billions of unspent stimulus money to fund real infrastructure like roads, bridges, and airports. It’s a commonsense, reasonable solution that puts the American taxpayer first by not increasing government spending at all while also delivering results for much-needed infrastructure improvement projects

I am forever grateful for the brave men and women who served in Afghanistan. They are heroes who stepped up to lead and serve. Unfortunately, President Biden has not followed their example, and his pull-out of Afghanistan has lacked leadership and a clear plan for success.

It is time to bring our troops home, but Biden needed to have a better plan that did not abandon and put Americans at risk. He should have also taken action to secure weapons, protect personnel, and look out for our Afghan allies who served as interpreters and partners in the war on terror. I stand with our Afghan allies, and I voted for the Senate Amendment to H.R. 3237 to allocate $500 million to evacuate Afghan allies, to allocate $600 million to Afghan refugee emergency transport, and to allow 8,000 additional visas to rescue our Afghan allies.

You can’t solve Western drought from a desk in D.C., which is why the Bureau of Land Management headquarters needs to remain in Grand Junction. It’s also why I brought my D.C. team out to Colorado to meet with local stakeholders and work on solutions for water storage projects and other ways to mitigate Western drought by managing our resources effectively.

My team and I talked with farmers, ranchers, Forest Service officials, water district leaders, firefighters, and other regional leaders about the need for more water storage projects and the need to actively manage our forests to prevent catastrophic wildfires.

I’ve consistently called on the Bureau of Reclamation to support more water storage projects, and I will continue to make sure we build up dams rather than tear them down like the radical enviros want. Additionally, I will continue to advocate for policies that reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires by responsibly managing our forests. My Active Forest Management, Wildfire Prevention, and Community Protection Act will do just that by removing bark beetle-killed trees, cutting bureaucratic red tape, and reinvesting 25% of the revenue from timber harvests back into rural communities.

This week, President Biden begged OPEC to pump more oil to import into the United States. Under President Trump, America was energy dominant, and we were exporting our oil and natural gas to our allies around the world while enjoying good-paying jobs and cheap energy prices at home. We are not even a year into the Biden administration, and we are already back to being dependent on the Middle East again for our energy needs. We are also in the midst of a disastrous pullout from Afghanistan. History is repeating itself from when Joe Biden was Vice President. In just a few months, Biden took us from being strong and energy-independent to being weak and dependent on countries that hate us.

Enough is enough, and I introduced the Protecting American Energy Jobs Act to nullify and defund President Biden’s job-killing Green New Deal executive orders that locked up federal land to responsible energy development. Colorado lost 9,000 jobs in the oil and natural gas industry this past year, and economists project that over the next two decades, Biden's federal leasing ban will result in $639.6 billion in lost GDP, $286 billion in lost wages, $151 billion in lost state tax revenue, and job losses climbing to 343,088 annually in eight western states alone. Congress should stand up and put a halt to these disastrous policies by passing my Protecting American Energy Jobs Act.

Aspen Daily News, Rep. Lauren Boebert: Forestry legislation aims to fund firefighting efforts, protect homes

“My legislation empowers forestry experts to make real scientific improvements to our forests. It’s time to chart a new path in forest management that’s guided by science, protects rural communities, benefits the environment and actively manages our forests to prevent catastrophic wildfires.”

KJCT News 8, Representative Lauren Boebert takes action to reopen I-70

“Representative Boebert has been actively monitoring the I-70 mudslides, and she received a briefing from Governor Polis and CDOT today. Congresswoman Boebert pledged to offer her full support to secure federal disaster assistance.”

KKCO 11 News, Colorado delegation leads bipartisan and bicameral effort to reopen I-70

“Today, Rep. Lauren Boebert and the entire bicameral and bipartisan Colorado congressional delegation sent a letter to the Department of Transportation requesting assistance from the Federal Highway Administration’s Emergency Relief Program to respond to the Glenwood Canyon mudslides that damaged Interstate 70.”

Post Independent, Boebert, local reps get peek at Glenwood Canyon damage following governor’s visit

“Boebert offered her thanks to the crews that have been working nearly nonstop for the past 14 days to clear the debris, assess the damage and make the initial repairs to get I-70 reopened. ‘I am grateful to all the contractors and CDOT employees who are working around the clock to reopen this critical artery for Western Colorado and the West,’ Boebert said in a statement.”

Live Action, Colorado congresswoman to Planned Parenthood: ‘Go fund yourself’

“Boebert began by speaking out for preborn children. ‘I rise to speak in defense of those who cannot defend themselves,’ she said. ‘The voiceless. The unborn. I rise to say to say what we all know to be true: that the human life begins at conception, because we know science is real. That more than 60 million babies have been ripped from their mother’s wombs since Roe v. Wade were no less valuable or worthy of life than any of us here today.’

KRDO, Colorado Reps. Lamborn, Boebert ask IRS to take steps to address backlog in tax returns

“Tens of millions of tax returns still haven't been processed by the Internal Revenue Service, and Colorado Congressional Representatives Doug Lamborn and Lauren Boebert have signed on to a letter to the IRS requesting action to address the ‘severe backlog.’”