U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, who attended the Water Congress this year for the first time since being elected in 2020, said she tries to bring awareness on the issues that matter in the West. She noted that everyone in the delegation advocated for keeping the Bureau of Land Management in her district in Grand Junction, Colorado “because we wanted boots on the ground for these policies that impact all of us.” 

Boebert pointed to her legislative efforts on water storage and reauthorization of fish recovery programs, and her attempts to work in a bipartisan manner with the Democrats in Colorado’s federal delegation.

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