The relationships we have with our doctors are often the most trusted relationships of our lives. Our doctors tell us hard truths that others will not. We often tell our doctors what we will not tell others. We trust our doctors to give us the good, the bad and the ugly about our health so that each of us can make an informed decision.Collection: Trust
Let's learn from history and take a look at other infamous socialist central-planning experiments like China's Great Leap Forward or the Soviet Union's Five-Year Plan. Like those two disasters, the Green New Deal would cripple our country and sacrifice Americans on the altar of environmental extremism.Collection: History
I put rural Colorado first, and I introduced the MORE PILT Act to support rural law enforcement, search and rescue operations, wildfire fighting and quality education.Collection: Education
I am honored to be elected by my peers to serve on the Board of the House Freedom Caucus as a freshman member of Congress. These men and women of faith serve with real conviction and are in Congress for the right reasons.Collection: Faith
I was brought up in a Democrat household. My mom believed the lies she was told, that she needed government to raise her five children.Collection: Government
It is not the government's right to tell you what to inject into your body.Collection: Government
My doctor has never mandated I do anything, ever. It's one of the reasons I trust him so much.Collection: Trust
Parents have absolutely every right to express their opinions at public school board meetings concerning their children's education.Collection: Education
When times get tough, we get tougher. Failure and government assistance are not an option for us.Collection: Failure
Inflation is taxation and taxation is theft that takes more money out of hard-working Americans' pocket books.Collection: Money
I-70 is a crucial economic artery for Colorado and the West, and on an average day, almost 5,000 semi-trucks carrying medicine, food, livestock, fuel, and other critical supplies travel on this federal highway.Collection: Travel
If I were a Democrat, I'd talk about taking money out of politics, but would tax businesses to provide kickbacks and multiply my own campaign war chest by 600%.Collection: Politics
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.Collection: Science
When I say to beware of the 'Fauci Ouchi,' it is a way to cut through the clutter and communicate that the heavy hand of government should never threaten you with taking an injection you may be skeptical of or are unwilling to take.Collection: Government
We were on welfare, and my mom thought you needed the government to survive. 'Don't try to make it on your own, because it won't be enough. The kids won't be fed:' My mom believed that lie. So I've lived with a poverty mentality. But after I got my first job, at a local McDonald's, and I got my first check, I felt such a sense of pride.Collection: Government
If I were a Democrat, I'd siphon the power of states to the federal government. I'd ignore the Constitution and prevent states from determining their own voting practices.Collection: Government
The spirit of the great outdoors and the spirit of America is freedom - let's keep freedom alive by preventing woke bureaucrats from trampling on property rights with more land grabs.Collection: Freedom
I am a Christian. I have deep faith... They thought they canceled Jesus, but you can't cancel God.Collection: Faith
Allowing illegal immigrants that are gang members and criminals with COVID to enter the U.S. and receive citizenship is a slap in the face to the American people and the rule of law.
I've fought against the National Popular Vote to make sure someone like Hillary Clinton can't steal their way to the presidency.
I sleep really well at night.
Ensuring the San Luis Valley's Radar data is fully integrated into National Weather Service systems will improve weather forecasting and warnings across southern Colorado for the benefit of farmers, ranchers, tourists, first responders, water district managers, and the general population.
Rather than relying on farmers, ranchers, outdoorsmen, lumberjacks, surveyors, oil workers, miners, or community leaders who have decades of land use experience, government policymakers turn to 25-year-olds with master's degrees in ecology and political science to run the country's public lands policy.
Decades of eco-terrorism have effectively shut down our national forests from responsible management.
President Joe Biden's administration is led by this particular brand of educated and out-of-touch staffers, freshly released from leftist ideology indoctrination camps - otherwise known as colleges and universities.
Westerners deserve a voice in the land-use decisions that affect their daily lives, and it would be wrong to move the Bureau of Land Management thousands of miles away from the land it manages back to a faceless marble building in D.C.
Cancel culture has always been an issue. I mean, if you look at the Book of Genesis, Cain canceled Abel. This has always been an issue, the 'I don't like you, I don't like what you're doing, I don't like the attention that you're getting, so you shouldn't be here. You shouldn't have a voice. You shouldn't have a movement.'
I refuse to bow to the cancel mob.
We do not need more federal government overreach and control of our land and water, and I will always fight to protect private property, preserve local control, and defend the economy from radical legislation.
If I were a Democrat, I'd be a career politician, so I'd enrich the Swamp while further bankrupting America.
Forests in Colorado and the West that once had 50-100 trees per acre are now dangerously overcrowded with 500-1,000 trees per acre. Our forests are overgrown and poorly managed, making them more susceptible to large wildfires, disease, and bark beetle attacks.
Decades of mismanagement have left our nation's forests vulnerable to insects and disease and ripe for catastrophic wildfires.
Impeachment isn't a tool that should be used to virtue signal.
The creation of useless offices and mandatory trainings to promote 'wokeness' and diversity inclusion among our troops distracts from the national security mission of the armed services.
I am proud to take the oath of office to represent and serve the great people of Colorado's Third Congressional District.
There have been no resignations, no indictments, no investigations, no congressional oversight, no outcry from the mainstream media, and no apologies - so I'm stepping up to hold Biden and Harris accountable by filing articles of impeachment for giving aid and comfort to America's enemies and colluding with the Taliban.
Joe Biden willfully abandoned his duty as President of the United States and violated his constitutional oath to 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed' by failing to ensure the national security of the United States and its citizens.
Earmarks are counterproductive tools for entrenched politicians to shut down debate and buy votes.
My staff hosts mobile office hours to serve constituents throughout the district in addition to our permanent offices in Durango, Pueblo and Grand Junction.
I'll be the first to say our military should always be fully funded.
Bipartisan reformers have long recognized that earmarks make way for corruption.
When Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders first brought up the Green New Deal, it sounded like a leftist pipe dream.
Voters see I'm a fighter.
While dam-busting Democrats are focusing on destroying water storage projects, I'm busy working on real solutions that put rural communities first.
If the earmark is reinstated, get ready for an avalanche of government waste coming in the form of a Democrat wish list.
Our children shouldn't be saddled with trillions of dollars of more debt and forced to pay for Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi's extreme agenda.
Congress needs to stop kicking the proverbial spending can down the road and make the hard decisions necessary to rein in our debt and balance the federal budget.
Forest management is a pillar of rural communities.
It's government's role to inform us of risks and let us use personal responsibility to evaluate that risk ourselves.
If I were a Democrat, I'd centralize power in Washington by nationalizing our elections. It wouldn't be enough to hold all three branches temporarily. I'd need to make it permanent.