Rep. Lauren Boebert
Representative for Colorado’s 3rd District
pronounced LAW-run // BOH-bert
![Photo of Rep. Lauren Boebert [R-CO3]](/static/legislator-photos/456805-200px.jpeg)
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his senior government advisors, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided by themselves rather than by voters. Their attempts to suppress entire state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and using a disinformation campaign of lies and conspiracy theories was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.
Boebert was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Boebert voted to skip Arizona and/or Pennsylvania in the counting of presidential electors, states which returned certified results for Trump’s opponent. These legislators pumped the lies and preposterous legal arguments about the election that motivated the January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol. The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors. President Trump was indicted in 2023 for soliciting the Vice President to subvert Congress’s certification of the election and his role in the fraudulent slates of electors and the insurrection at the Capitol.
Misconduct
Rep. Boebert was fined for failing to wear a mask on the House floor during the COVID-19 pandemic.
| Mar. 21, 2022 | House Sergeant at Arms fined her for failing to wear a mask on the House floor during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| Nov. 30, 2021 | House Sergeant at Arms fined Boebert for failing to wear a mask on the House floor during the COVID-19 pandemic |
Earmarks
Boebert proposed $34 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:
- $5 million to Town of Silt for “Town of Silt Water Plant Renovations Project”
- $5 million to Rio Blanco Water Conservancy District for “Wolf Creek Reservoir Project”
- $5 million to Pueblo County Government for “Medal of Honor Blvd Extension”
View all requests and justifications on Boebert’s website »
View analysis and download spreadsheet from Demand Progress Education Fund »
These are earmark requests which may or may not survive the legislative process to becoming law. Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. Across representatives who requested earmarks, the median total amount requested for this fiscal year was $39 million.
Earmarks are federal expenditures, tax benefits, or tariff benefits requested by a legislator for a specific entity. Rather than being distributed through a formula or competitive process administered by the executive branch, earmarks may direct spending where it is most needed for the legislator's district. All earmark requests in the House of Representatives are published online for the public to review. We don’t have earmark requests for senators. The fiscal year begins on October 1 of the prior calendar year. Source: Appropriations.house.gov. Background: Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Boebert.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Boebert is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Boebert has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Sep 20, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Lauren Boebert sits on the following committees:
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Boebert sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Public Lands and Natural Resources (21%) Immigration (18%) International Affairs (13%) Crime and Law Enforcement (13%) Energy (10%) Government Operations and Politics (10%) Health (8%) Environmental Protection (8%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Boebert recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 4776: Protecting Free Speech Act
- H.R. 4596: Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Reauthorization Act …
- H.Res. 503: Impeaching Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, for high crimes …
- H.J.Res. 68: Relating to a national emergency declared by the President on October 27, 2006.
- H.R. 3675: Western Water Accelerated Revenue Repayment Act
- H.R. 3212: Shall Not Be Infringed Act of 2023
- H.R. 2997: CONVEY Act
View All » | View Cosponsors »
Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2021 to Sep 2023, Boebert missed 47 of 1,401 roll call votes, which is 3.4%. This is worse than the median of 1.7% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Office of Rep. Boebert for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
