By Ernest Luning | Colorado Politics
Republican U.S. Rep.-elect Greg Lopez is scheduled to be sworn into office on Monday, July 8, after winning last month’s vacancy election in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, a Lopez spokeswoman and House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office told Colorado Politics on Friday.
The 60-year-old Lopez is expected to serve the roughly six months remaining in former U.S. Rep. Ken Buck’s term, following the five-term Republican’s resignation from Congress in March.
Once Lopez is sworn in, Republicans will expand their slim majority in the House of Representatives to 220 members, compared to 213 Democrats, with two vacant seats remaining.
Lopez easily defeated Democratic nominee Trisha Calvarese for the solid GOP seat, which covers Douglas County, portions of Larimer and Weld counties and the state’s Eastern Plains.