United States Politicians
Lamborn, Doug

Lamborn, Doug

House of Representatives · Colorado · Rank #402 of 554

Score
-$3.6T

Employee Performance Review

Budget influence review.

Lamborn, Doug is a public employee. This review tracks the federal budget this office backed instead of pretending congressional votes are just vibes. At 929 dollars per patient, the military dollars this office backed could have funded pragmatic trials for about 3.9B patients.

Military $ Backed

$3.6T

Bills this office backed that expand military spending

Clinical Trials $

$2B

Bills this office backed that include clinical trial funding

Military : Medicine

2,312:1

Higher means more military than medicine

Score
-$3.6T

Clinical trial spending minus military spending. Everyone is negative.

blowing stuff up
$3.6T
Testing Medicines $ Voted For
$2B

3.3% of the NIH budget actually tests which medicines work

skeleton manufacturing : medicines ratio
2,312:1

System average: 1,094:1

Spending Scale (vs All Politicians)

killing strangers$3.6T
Testing Medicines$2B

Scaled to the same axis as military spending — the bar is barely visible because clinical trials get 0.04% of the funding

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Vote Record

How We Calculate

Military $
Military $ = Σ (bill amount for each YEA vote on NDAA, supplementals, or omnibus military portion)

NDAA and supplementals count at face value. Omnibus bills count only the military appropriation (~$858–886B/yr).

Clinical Trials $
Trials $ = NIH budget × 0.033

Only 3.3% of the NIH budget funds clinical trials ($1.56B of $47.3B). The other 96.7% is basic research, overhead, and administration. Source: JAMA.

Score
Score = Clinical Trials $ − Military $

Positive = net investment in medicine. Negative = net investment in military. Everyone is negative.

Ratio
Ratio = Military $ ÷ Clinical Trials $

Higher = worse. ∞ means the politician voted for military spending but never voted for any bill containing clinical trial funding.

The Maths

Lamborn, Doug spent $2,312 on limb removal services for every $1 finding out which medicines work. Your species average is 1,094:1. Your chance of dying from terrorism: 1 in 30 million. Your chance of dying from disease: 100%.

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