Issues

America has always grown through deliberate investment. Every economic boom followed the same formula: invest in infrastructure, invest in people, and invest in innovation.

We need a 21st-century version of that strategy. The path runs through Colorado’s Fourth District.

Colorado Industries 

Colorado 4 can lead the next American century in:

• Aerospace

• Ag-tech

• Biomedical and medical-device manufacturing

• Advanced energy

• Climate and resilience technology

Re-shoring supply chains lowers costs, strengthens national security, and creates stable, middle-class jobs right here at home.

That is exactly what the bipartisan CHIPS & Science Act was designed to do. I helped pass it, and I will build on that progress.

Jobs

Talent is our greatest asset. It isn’t limited to the coasts. Opportunity is. We can fix that by building:

• Education and job training pathways that do not require a four-year degree

• Strong investment in science and technology jobs

• Clear paths into the trades and emerging industries starting in high school

• Community college, employer, and labor partnerships

• On-ramps for adults switching careers

The rising generation should be able to stay in the communities that raised them. And people who left should be able to come home to real opportunity.

Energy for a Competitive Century

China is out-competing the United States in renewable energy production while local energy prices spike here at home.

Colorado 4 was positioned to lead. A bill I helped shape and pass would have created 20,000 jobs in energy manufacturing and storage. Lauren Boebert voted to block that growth and opportunity.

We need a comprehensive, all-of-the-above energy strategy that uses our abundant natural gas while expanding renewables and modernizing the grid. That means:

• Coordinated state and federal investment in energy infrastructure

• Making Colorado a global leader in energy production, storage, and transmission

• Bringing private, public, and labor partners to the table

Done right, this will lower costs for consumers, support aerospace and advanced manufacturing, and create middle-class jobs. To finance it, we should use proven investment tools like bonds.

Opportunity for Builders, Makers, and Risk-Takers

Colorado 4 can be the Silicon Valley of the Mountain West.

Building here should be easier than shipping ideas elsewhere. Innovation should stay rooted in the communities that create it. I’ll fight to:

• Lower start-up costs

• Expand access to capital

• Open federal innovation resources, including AI, to small firms and entrepreneurs

• Help local companies build, test, and scale right here in Colorado

When we make it easier to build in Colorado, we create good jobs and keep economic power local.