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Mike Coffman
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado's 6th district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 2009
Preceded by	Tom Tancredo
Secretary of State of Colorado
In office January 9, 2007 – January 3, 2009
Governor	Bill Ritter
Preceded by	Gigi Dennis
Succeeded by	Bernie Buescher
Treasurer of Colorado
In office March 27, 2006 – January 9, 2007
Governor	Bill Owens
Preceded by	Mark Hillman (Acting)
Succeeded by	Cary Kennedy
In office January 3, 1999 – June 9, 2005
Governor	Bill Owens
Preceded by	Bill Owens
Succeeded by	Mark Hillman (Acting)
Member of the Colorado Senate from the 27th district
In office December 12, 1994 – January 3, 1999
Preceded by	Bill Owens
Succeeded by	John Andrews
Member of the Colorado House of Representatives from the 40th district
In office January 1989 – December 12, 1994
Preceded by	???
Succeeded by	Gary McPherson
Personal details
Born	Michael Coffman (1955-03-19) March 19, 1955 (age 69) Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Cynthia Coffman
Alma mater	University of Colorado, Boulder
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch/service	United States Army  United States Marine Corps
Years of service	1972–1978 (Army) 1979–1994, 2005–2006 (Marines)
Rank	Major
Battles/wars	Persian Gulf War Iraq War

Michael Howard "Mike" Coffman (born March 19, 1955) is the U.S. Representative for Colorado's 6th congressional district, serving since 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the Secretary of State of Colorado (2007–2009) and as Colorado State Treasurer (1999–2005 and 2006–2007).

Coffman is in favor of a "full repeal" of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), and supported measures in January 2017 that began the process of repealing the Affordable Care Act. Coffman opposes abortion and has voted to defund Planned Parenthood. He voted against the economic stimulus of 2009, citing a nonexistent CBO report to justify his vote. Coffman opposes same-sex marriage. Coffman has voted in favor of legislation that would end birthright citizenship. Coffman expressed doubt that President Barack Obama had been born in the United States in 2012 but later said that he "misspoke". He has voted with his party in 96.9% of votes so far in the current session of Congress and voted in line with President Trump's position in 100% of the votes.

Early life, education, and business career

Michael Coffman was born on March 19, 1955 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, to Harold and Dorothy Coffman, and is one of five children. His father served in the United States Army at Fort Leonard Wood, and after 1964, at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado.

In 1972, Coffman enlisted in the U.S. Army, and was assigned to a mechanized infantry battalion. The following year, he earned a high school diploma through an army program. Leaving active duty for the U.S. Army Reserve in 1974, he entered the University of Colorado, under the G.I. Bill graduating in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in political science. He also studied at Vaishnav College in Chennai, India, and the University of Veracruz in Mexico for a year. Upon graduation from the University of Colorado, Coffman transferred from the Army Reserve to the United States Marine Corps in 1979, becoming an infantry officer. In 1983, he transferred from active duty to the Marine Reserves, serving until 1994. In 1983, he created an Aurora, Colorado-based property management firm, serving as senior shareholder until 2000.

State politics

Legislature

Coffman began his political career serving as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from 1989 to 1994. Shortly after winning re-election in 1990, he took an unpaid leave-of-absence from the statehouse during his active duty service in the Persian Gulf War, during which he saw combat as a light armored infantry officer. In 1994, he retired from the U.S. Marine Corps after 20 years of combined service to the Army, Army Reserve, Marines, and Marine Reserve. In 2006 he returned to active duty in the Marines where he deployed to Iraq for combat service. Upon return from his deployment, he retired from the Marine Corps once again. When State Senator Bill Owens resigned his seat to become state treasurer, the party's vacancy committee named Coffman the replacement in December 1994. In 1996, he was elected to a full term to the Colorado State Senate unopposed. He became the Chairman of the Finance Committee.

Statewide offices

In 1998, Coffman was elected as State Treasurer of Colorado with 51% of the vote, defeating Democratic nominee Jim Polsfut. In 2002, he was re-elected with 56%, defeating Democratic State Senator Terry Phillips.

He resigned from that post in 2005 in order to resume his career in the U.S. Marines, and serve in the War in Iraq, where he helped support the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, which oversaw two national elections, and helped establish interim local governments in the western Euphrates Valley. In 2006, he completed his duty in Iraq and was re-appointed as State Treasurer. He served that position for only a few months because in November 2006, he was elected Colorado Secretary of State with 51% of the vote, defeating Democratic State Senator and Minority Leader Ken Gordon.

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2008

Coffman announced that he would run for the U.S. House seat being vacated by retiring Republican Tom Tancredo in 2008 in Colorado's 6th congressional district. Three other candidates decided to run in the Republican primary for the open seat: Wil Armstrong (son of former U.S. Senator Bill Armstrong), State Senator Ted Harvey, and State Senator Steve Ward. Coffman won the August primary with a plurality of 40% of the vote, beating runner-up Wil Armstrong by seven points.

The Denver Post endorsed Coffman on October 10, 2008. In November, Coffman defeated Democrat Hank Eng, an Appleton, Wisconsin City Common Councilman, 61%–39%. Governor Bill Ritter designated State Representative Bernie Buescher, a Democrat, to succeed Coffman as Secretary of State.

2010

Coffman defeated Democrat John Flerlage 66%–31%.

2012

In redistricting, Colorado's 6th congressional district was made more favorable to Democrats than previously. Aurora was added to the district. Democratic State Representative Joe Miklosi challenged Coffman. Coffman defeated Miklosi 48%–46%, a difference of 6,992 votes.

2014

Coffman ran for re-election to the U.S. House in 2014. He won the Republican nomination in the primary election on June 24, 2014, unopposed. He faced Democrat Andrew Romanoff in the general election. Coffman won 52%–43%.

2016

Coffman ran for re-election in 2016 as the Republican nominee against Democratic State Senator Morgan Carroll. He defeated Carroll in the general election, winning 51% of the vote to Carroll's 42%. In July 2016, the conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity announced plans to launch a major advertising campaign opposing Carroll.

Coffman faced protests and jeering at a town-hall meeting in February 2017. The protesters questioned Coffman about his political positions and whether he would hold President Trump to account. Coffman left the town-hall meeting early, and later said that "partisan activists showed up only to disrupt the event".

Committee assignments

• Committee on Armed Services
  • Subcommittee on Military Personnel
  • Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
  • Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces
• Committee on Veterans' Affairs
  • Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity
  • Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Chair

Caucus memberships

• Congressional Balanced Budget Amendment Caucus (Chairman)
• Congressional Bike Caucus
• Congressional Caucus on Turkey and Turkish Americans
• Congressional Coal Caucus
• International Conservation Caucus
• Natural Gas Caucus
• Sportsmen's Caucus

Political positions

He has voted with his party in 96.9% of votes so far in the current session of Congress and voted in line with President Trump's position in 100% of the votes.

Abortion

Coffman opposes abortion. He has voted to defund Planned Parenthood. In early 2014, Coffman announced that he no longer supports personhood laws.

Donald Trump

Coffman did not endorse Donald Trump, the Republican Party's nominee for U.S. president in 2016. In August 2016, he ran an advertisement promising to "stand up” to Trump. The ad represented the first time a House Republican used explicitly anti-Trump messaging in paid advertising. It is rare for incumbent members of Congress to run advertisements attacking presidential nominees of their own party. Coffman also released a version of the commercial which featured him speaking Spanish. He criticized Trump for his attacks on the parents of Captain Humayun Khan.

Economic stimulus of 2009

Coffman voted against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which was a stimulus package intended to save and create jobs, and provide temporary relief programs as a response to the Great Recession. Coffman cited a nonexistent Congressional Budget Office study to justify his vote against the stimulus package. Coffman later claimed that "the Congressional Budget Office estimates have been changed or suppressed".

Environment

Coffman opposes federal regulation of greenhouse gases.

Healthcare

Coffman is in favor of a "full repeal" of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). In January 2017, he voted in support of legislation that began the process of repealing the Affordable Care Act.

LGBT rights

Coffman opposes same-sex marriage.

In 2014, Coffman signed on as a co-sponsor of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which prohibits discrimination in hiring and employment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Later, in 2016, he expressed his support for provisions which would allow federal contractors to discriminate against people based on their sexual orientation. Later in 2016, he flip-flopped again; now opposing those provisions.

Michael T. Flynn controversy

After it had been revealed in February 2017 that White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had been covertly communicating with Russian officials and lying about the nature and content of those communications, Coffman said that he did not think that Flynn should be investigated any further.

Military and veterans affairs

In 2011, Coffman proposed a half billion dollars in cuts to military programs such as education reimbursements, the Selective Service and the military's health plan, TRICARE, saying that the programs "have been neglected for a long time. Every dollar wasted is a dollar not going to our war fighters. What they do is important to this country, and we should focus on them."

Coffman introduced the Veterans Paralympic Act of 2013, which funds disabled veterans who want to compete in the Paralympic Games. The bill was signed into law by President Obama in 2013. In response to a 2013 Gazette report about veterans with mental health conditions, such as Post-traumatic stress disorder, being stripped of medical benefits, Coffman sponsored a 2014 amendment that would allow servicemen with mental health issues who were discharged because of misconduct to appeal for medical discharge instead.

Coffman introduced the Gulf War Health Research Reform Act of 2014, a bill that would alter the relationship between the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illnesses (RAC) and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Coffman was the first congressman to call for Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki to resign after misconduct at multiple VA facilities was revealed. On May 30, 2014, Shinseki resigned as Secretary. In 2016, Coffman co-sponsored a bill to abolish the Selective Service System.

Immigration

Coffman has voted in favor of legislation that would end birthright citizenship, established by the 14th amendment to the Constitution.

In August 2014, Coffman broke ranks with the Republican Party and voted against a bill that would have dismantled the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. In October 2015, Coffman and Democrat Tammy Duckworth co-sponsored the Military Enlistment Opportunity Act, which would provide undocumented immigrant children an opportunity to serve in the U.S. military and gain a path to citizenship.

Collins opposed President Donald Trump's 2017 executive order to temporarily curtail Muslim immigration until better screening methods are devised. He stated “While I’ve supported heightened vetting procedures, I have never, nor will I ever support a blanket travel ban, for people solely based on ethnic or religious grounds.”

Questioning Obama's citizenship

During a campaign fundraiser in Elbert County on May 12, 2012, Coffman expressed doubt that President Barack Obama had been born in the United States and declared that: "I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that. But I do know this, that in his heart, he's not an American. He's just not an American." Coffman apologized several days later saying that, "I misspoke and I apologize", and "I have confidence in President Obama's citizenship and legitimacy as President of the United States."

Parental leave

In 2009, Coffman voted against legislation that would give four weeks of paid parental leave for federal employees.

Rape

EMILY's List, a political action committee that works to elect pro-choice Democratic women, endorsed Coffman's 2016 U.S. House opponent. It criticized Coffman for allegedly "co-sponsoring a bill to redefine rape". PolitiFact.com rated the claim "Mostly True", writing that "Coffman did co-sponsor the bill to redefine a ban on federal funding for abortions to exempt 'forcible rape.' Yet he later voted on the floor for an amended version that had removed the 'forcible' modifier from the bill."

Social issues

Coffman supports the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision, and supports maintaining access to birth control for women.

Coffman opposes federally mandated background checks for gun purchases. He supported the 2012 renewal of the Violence Against Women Act.

Taxes

Coffman has repeatedly voted to repeal the inheritance tax on property valued above $5 million.

Voting rights

During the general election of 2008, when Coffman was Secretary of State of Colorado, several groups accused the secretary of state's office of improperly marking 6,400 voter registration forms as incomplete, because they failed to check a box on the form, required by legislation sponsored by then Senate Majority Leader Ken Gordon, a Democrat, in 2006. Incomplete registrations require voters to either re-register or provide extra identification when they go to vote. Soon after the accusations were made, Common Cause filed suit against Coffman, in his official capacity as secretary of state. The secretary of state's office denied wrongdoing, and Coffman said he believes his office was correctly applying the law. On October 30, 2008, the court approved a preliminary injunction allowing purged voters to participate in the 2008 election. Bernie Buescher, Coffman's successor as secretary of state, replaced Coffman as defendant in the case in January 2009. The bulk of the litigation was settled in January 2010 after changes to Colorado's election regulations, and the remaining portions were decided in January 2011.

In September 2016, Coffman became co-sponsor of the Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2015, legislation that would restore some protections in the 1965 Voting Rights Act that have been stripped by the United States Supreme Court.

Personal life

Coffman's wife Cynthia Coffman was elected Colorado Attorney General in 2014. She previously served as Chief Deputy Attorney General in the office of Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, and as Chief Counsel in the office of then-Governor Bill Owens.

Coffman is a United Methodist.

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External links

• Congressman Mike Coffman official U.S. House website
• Mike Coffman for Congress
• Mike Coffman at Ballotpedia
• Appearances on C-SPAN

• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
• Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress
• Profile at Vote Smart

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At-large	Belford Patterson Belford Symes Townsend Brooks Cook Taylor Keating
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