Lauren Boebert
American politician
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| 2025 | Harassed a woman in the women's bathroom at the Capitol, making false accusations that she was transgender congress member Sarah McBride, and attempting to get her removed. |
| 2024 | Elected to a third term, representing the 4th congressional district for the first time. |
| 2024 | Reelected to a third term in Congress. |
| June 2024 | Publicly supported Louisiana's order to display the Ten Commandments in public schools, stating the need to bring 'morals back to the nation' |
| April 3 2024 | Boebert was hospitalized after experiencing severe leg swelling, diagnosed with a blood clot from May-Thurner syndrome which was successfully removed in surgery. |
| January 1 2024 | Announced her intention to run for re-election in Colorado's 3rd congressional district for the 2024 election cycle. |
| 2023 | Boebert was one of 47 Republicans who voted in favor of H.Con.Res. 21, a resolution directing President Biden to remove U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days. |
| December 2023 | Announces she will switch congressional districts to run in the 4th congressional district for the 2024 election. |
| December 27 2023 | Boebert announced she would switch her congressional campaign from Colorado's 3rd to the 4th congressional district, citing more favorable political conditions for Republicans. |
| October 10 2023 | Boebert's divorce from Jayson was finalized. |
| September 10 2023 | Boebert was removed from a Beetlejuice musical performance in Denver for causing a disturbance by vaping, singing, and recording the show. |
| June 2023 | Filed a privileged resolution to bring impeachment articles against President Biden for immigration and border protection policies, which was instead referred to House committees. |
| May 11 2023 | Lauren Boebert filed for divorce from her husband Jayson, citing 'irreconcilable differences'. |
| February 2023 | Boebert criticized the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' mandate requiring gun owners to register firearms with 'stabilizing braces', arguing the mandate violated separation of powers. |
| February 2023 | Boebert co-sponsored a bill to designate the AR-15-style rifle as the National Gun of the United States. |
| January 2023 | Boebert was one of 20 far-right Republican members who prevented Kevin McCarthy's election as House Speaker for the first 14 ballots during the 118th Congress. |
| January 13 2023 | Lauren Boebert filed her statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for the 2024 U.S. House of Representatives election. |
| 2022 | Lauren Boebert cosponsored two anti-LGBT bills: one introduced by Marjorie Taylor Greene to criminalize sex reassignment surgery and transgender health care for minors, and another introduced by Mike Johnson called the Stop the Sexualization of Children Act, which would prohibit federally funded institutions from promoting or instructing on LGBT issues. |
| 2022 | Boebert spoke to two audiences about being in the 'last of the last days' and suggested they would play a role in 'ushering in the second coming of Jesus'. |
| 2022 | Boebert was among 75 House Republicans who voted against the National Defense Authorization Act, criticizing what she described as a 'woke agenda' in the bill. |
| December 12 2022 | An automatic recount was completed, confirming Boebert's victory in the congressional election by a narrow margin of 546 votes out of 327,000 against Adam Frisch. |
| November 8 2022 | Lauren Boebert narrowly won re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives in Colorado's 3rd congressional district, defeating Democrat Adam Frisch in an extremely close race that required a recount. |
| October 2022 | A lawsuit by a blocked constituent seeking access to her Twitter account was dismissed with prejudice. |
| September 11 2022 | Lauren Boebert participated in a debate with Democratic nominee Adam Frisch, where she claimed credit for bills she had voted against, focused on attacking Nancy Pelosi, and proposed oil and gas development as a response to climate change. |
| August 2022 | The Colorado Sun reported Boebert violated the STOCK Act by failing to properly disclose stock, cryptocurrency, and brokerage fund sales belonging to her husband. |
| July 2022 | Shooters Grill closed after the building's new owner opted not to renew the lease. |
| June 2022 | Lauren Boebert told a church audience that the church should direct the government, challenging the traditional interpretation of separation of church and state. |
| June 2022 | Lauren Boebert introduced a congressional bill to classify fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, aiming to address concerns about the opioid crisis. |
| June 28 2022 | Lauren Boebert narrowly won the Republican primary for Colorado's 3rd congressional district, defeating state senator Don Coram with approximately 54.4% of the vote. |
| June 23 2022 | Boebert obtained a temporary restraining order against David Wheeler, a co-founder of a Democratic-aligned Super PAC, though the order was later vacated in July. |
| May 2022 | Boebert was one of nine House members who voted against two bills aimed at addressing the baby formula shortage, including the Access to Baby Formula Act and a bill invoking the Defense Production Act to increase formula production. |
| May 26 2022 | Lauren Boebert participated in the pre-primary debate, emphasizing her introduced bills in Congress, repeating election fraud claims, and criticizing COVID-19 restrictions while positioning herself against her primary challenger Don Coram. |
| March 2022 | Boebert confronted a group of Orthodox Jews visiting the Capitol, asking if they were on a 'reconnaissance mission', which she later claimed was a jest |
| January 2022 | Becomes communications chair of the Republican Freedom Caucus. |
| 2021 | Lauren Boebert sponsored H.R. 6202, the American Tech Workforce Act, which aimed to establish a wage floor for H-1B visas and eliminate the Optional Practical Training program for foreign graduates. |
| December 2021 | Boebert doubled down on allegations of voter fraud, claiming hundreds of thousands of ballots were illegally mailed to voters, without providing evidence. |
| November 20 2021 | Boebert repeated her elevator story about Omar at an event, this time adding a detail about a Capitol Police officer's reaction |
| November 18 2021 | During a speech on the House floor, Boebert referred to Omar as 'the Jihad Squad member from Minnesota' |
| September 2021 | Submitted a resolution to impeach President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris over the withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan. |
| September 2021 | Boebert submitted official documents to the FEC acknowledging that campaign money was used to pay rental and utility bills, and claimed the funds had been reimbursed. |
| September 2021 | Boebert made controversial comments about Democratic representative Ilhan Omar during a Republican fundraiser, referencing a supposed elevator encounter and calling her part of the 'Jihad Squad' |
| August 2021 | After the Afghan government fell to the Taliban, Boebert tweeted a provocative message using Biden's 'Build Back Better' campaign slogan, saying 'the Taliban are the only people building back better'. |
| August 2021 | Boebert belatedly revealed her husband Jayson's income of $478,000 from Terra Energy in 2020, following an FEC investigation into her campaign expenses. |
| June 2021 | Boebert tweeted about the Clinton body count conspiracy theory following the death of reporter Christopher Sign, questioning the circumstances surrounding deaths of those who 'cross the Clinton Crime Syndicate'. |
| June 2021 | Boebert advised her Mesa County constituents to 'turn off CNN and vote Republican' as a way to make the Delta variant go away, later deleting the tweet after public criticism. |
| June 2021 | Boebert was one of 21 House Republicans to vote against a resolution to give the Congressional Gold Medal to police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol. |
| March 15 2021 | During a closed Republican town hall in Montrose, Colorado, Boebert embraced QAnon conspiracy theories by discussing potential arrests of former officials and suggesting declassified documents would reveal corruption. |
| February 2021 | The Denver Post reported ethics experts' suspicions about Boebert's $22,259 mileage reimbursement from campaign finances. |
| February 2021 | Boebert and a dozen other Republican House members skipped votes while attending the Conservative Political Action Conference during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to an ethics complaint filed by the Campaign for Accountability. |
| February 2021 | Proposed a bill to ban executive moratoriums on oil and gas leases and permits on some federal lands, demonstrating her support for the energy industry and opposition to restrictions on fossil fuel extraction. |
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