Lauren Boebert

Her campaign's Contract with Colorado says she will introduce and vote for a Balanced Budget Amendment every year she serves in Congress.⁹

1. Add a balanced budget requirement to the Constitution
2. No amendment; limit spending by law instead, such as with spending caps
3. No constitutional requirement or new spending limits

Her campaign's Contract with Colorado says the federal government has a spending problem rather than a revenue problem and does not need tax increases.⁹

1. Increase overall federal spending
2. Hold overall spending near current levels
3. Cut overall federal spending
4. Cut spending enough to balance the budget within 10 years

Her campaign's Contract with Colorado calls for term limits for all politicians.⁹

Her campaign's Contract with Colorado says a federal bureaucracy of more than 2 million employees who earn more than private-sector workers is not what the nation's founders envisioned, and calls for capping federal civilian pay and benefits at private-sector levels and giving the president more power to fire executive branch employees who do not carry out his policies.⁹

1. Cut the federal workforce further and make more federal jobs easier to fire
2. Keep the workforce near its current size, with current job protections
3. Rehire for jobs cut since 2025 and restore job protections, such as by undoing the 2026 at-will rule

Her campaign's Contract with Colorado says health care should be personal and portable, with transparent and competitive pricing.⁹

Her campaign's Contract with Colorado says veterans should also have a private-sector option for their care.⁹

Her campaign's Contract with Colorado says she believes life begins at conception, and a campaign flyer on her website lists her cosponsorship of the Life at Conception Act.^5,9

Her campaign's Contract with Colorado says Planned Parenthood should never receive federal tax dollars.⁹

1. Bar public funds for abortions and for groups that provide them, including for their other services
2. Bar public funds for most abortions, but let clinics that provide them be paid for other care
3. Let Medicaid and other public programs cover abortion (ending the Hyde Amendment)

Her campaign's Contract with Colorado calls for building the border wall, and a campaign flyer on her website lists a bill she introduced to finish building it.^5,9

1. Build walls or fencing along much more of the border
2. Add barriers only in selected places, relying mainly on technology and agents
3. Build no new barriers and spend the money on other border security

Her campaign's Contract with Colorado calls for putting a stop to sanctuary cities, and a campaign flyer on her website says a bill she introduced would bar funding for them.^5,9

1. Require full cooperation, with penalties for places that limit it
2. Let each state, county or city decide
3. Cooperate only in cases involving people convicted of serious crimes
4. Bar police and jails from helping without a judge's warrant

Her campaign's Contract with Colorado calls for enforcing current immigration laws, and a campaign flyer on her website lists her Build the Wall and Deport Them All Act, which it says would end catch and release and speed up the removal of people in the country illegally.^5,9

1. Abolish ICE and move any remaining enforcement work to other agencies
2. Deport only people convicted of serious crimes or who threaten national security
3. Focus on people with criminal records and recent border crossers
4. Deport as many people here without legal permission as possible, with or without criminal records

A campaign flyer on her website says her Build the Wall and Deport Them All Act would restore the Remain in Mexico policy.⁵

A campaign flyer on her website lists her No Amnesty Act, which it says would cancel and remove funding for President Biden's executive actions that the flyer calls amnesty.⁵

Her campaign's Contract with Colorado calls for more drilling, and her campaign website lists House passage of her Colorado Energy Prosperity Act, which it says stops the Bureau of Land Management from closing 1.6 million acres of Colorado land to oil and gas production.^5,9,10

1. Stop or sharply limit new leases
2. Continue leasing, but keep some coastlines and wildlife areas off-limits
3. Lease more federal land and offshore areas for drilling

Her campaign website lists among her accomplishments House passage of bills to lengthen drilling permits from two years to four and to speed up permitting for major infrastructure.¹⁰

Her campaign's Contract with Colorado supports an all-of-the-above energy strategy and adding new nuclear technology to the mix as a clean energy source.⁹

Her campaign website says she voted in June 2026 against extending warrantless government surveillance without new protections, and that the government should need a warrant to search Americans' data.¹⁰

Her campaign website lists House passage of her Trust the Science Act to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list, and a measure signed into law that blocks listing the sage-grouse.¹⁰

1. Strengthen protections and spend more on helping species recover
2. Keep current protections
3. Narrow protections and give states more control over listed species

A campaign flyer on her website lists her bill to end the 30x30 conservation initiative, which it says would protect ranching, grazing and multiple use of public land, and says she got a provision that would have restricted the use of 760,000 acres in Colorado removed from the National Defense Authorization Act.⁵

Her campaign website says that as a Farm Bill conferee she is pushing for a ban on Chinese Communist Party ownership of American farmland.¹⁰

1. Ban farmland purchases by all foreign buyers
2. Ban purchases by buyers tied to China, Russia, Iran or North Korea
3. Require more reporting and national security reviews of purchases, but no outright bans
4. Keep current reporting rules, with no new limits on foreign buyers

Her campaign's Contract with Colorado says there should not be a federal Department of Education.⁹

1. Close the department and move or end its programs
2. Shrink it and give states more control over federal school money
3. Keep the department and its programs, or expand it

Her campaign's Contract with Colorado says charter schools and school choice work and that local decision-making is better.⁹