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Dana Rohrabacher

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Dana Rohrabacher is a former U.S. Representative for California's 48th congressional district, serving from 1989 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he is known for his libertarian views and strong support for the tech industry. During his time in Congress, Rohrabacher was an advocate for various issues, including technology innovation and foreign policy matters, particularly regarding Taiwan and its democratic governance. He often emphasized the importance of individual liberties and limited government intervention.

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Jul 20, 1998

Mr. Speaker, Mexico is our neighbor and I rise in strong support of this amendment by the gentleman from California (Mr. Bilbray) concerning our neighbor and our neighbors in Mexico. Like all neighbors, there are issues that deal with…

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Jun 16, 1998

reclaiming my time, we do not need some pointy-headed intellectual at some university, who may or may not be an ultra liberal receiving some kind of a grant for study, to tell me that it is more scientific to guesstimate who lives over…

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Jun 16, 1998

I know that all of us are committed, along with the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Maloney) to a fair census. I am glad to hear that she did not mention the words ``census sampling,'' because of course we know that what that really means…

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Jun 15, 1998

this weekend the communist government of China instructed its official news agency to issue the following statement in regard to its option to use force to conquer the Republic of China on Taiwan: ``Every sovereign state has the right to…

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Jun 11, 1998

President Clinton seems like he is absolutely committed on this upcoming trip to China. We have asked him to reconsider this trip and, no, he will not reconsider the trip. And Congress officially asked him whether or not he would at least…

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Jun 9, 1998

I came to the floor on April 30 as the chairman of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics. As someone who holds that title, I have the responsibility to oversee NASA and America's space effort. My purpose in that April 30 speech was to…

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Jun 9, 1998

Of course I support the gentleman's position that we should return those bells. It is an insult to the people of the Philippines. There is no reason for a country that is so close to us now that we should not bend over backwards to be…

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Jun 4, 1998

I am going to be blunt. The presence of the President in the United States, President Clinton with his record on human rights, in Tiananmen Square makes a mockery of this country's sincere commitment to human rights and democracy. This…

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May 19, 1998

outrage is sweeping the United States of America, and a justifiable outrage. The American people are finding out now that the technology that they paid for with their tax dollars to be developed during the Cold War, that some of that…

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May 18, 1998

Instead, I will refer to exactly what this speech is supposed to focus on and as only compared to those other items that I consider to be not understandable and trivial, but instead the fact that actions have been taken by this President…

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May 18, 1998

I will take the Chair's admonition and interest. We recognize that the media has trivialized the charges that have been made against the President and we realize that perhaps the American people are getting sick and tired of hearing about…

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May 18, 1998

what started off as leaks about American corporations upgrading Communist Chinese rockets and missiles is today emerging as one of our country's worst national security scandals. What could be worse than American corporations using…

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May 7, 1998

today I rise again to discuss one of the most disturbing issues with which I have had to deal since being elected to Congress 10 years ago. The facts are still being uncovered, but it appears now that America has been betrayed, betrayed by…

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Apr 30, 1998

This does fit into my special order which is focused on China because one of the things this administration is totally ignoring is the Chinese relationship to the drug lords in Burma. China has become a major distributer of heroin as it…

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Apr 30, 1998

I just came back from Southeast Asia where heroin is being grown, actually it is opium and turned into heroin, especially in Burma and in Afghanistan, and I was informed by the DEA agents there that we know exactly where the fields are…

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Apr 23, 1998

It is a travesty to have this debate so that Dana Rohrabacher has 1 minute to express himself on this issue. And the same with the rest of my colleagues. When are we going to stand up for our own rights in this body? Here we have the…

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Apr 22, 1998

Mr. Speaker, it has been long observed that a frog thrown into a pot of boiling water will jump right out, but throw a frog into a pot of tepid water and then slowly turn up the heat under the pot, and the frog will stay there until he is…

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Mar 30, 1998

it is sacrilegious, it is a Trojan horse, we are working somehow to gag and to silence the opposition. We are shutting down the opposition, shutting down free speech, and we are trying to silence people and this is a cynical fraud. We hear…

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Mar 27, 1998

I would gladly join with my colleague from Florida, and let me just say that if we are committed to protecting our people from this nuclear catastrophe that could happen, we have the means to prevent this from happening. We have the…

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Mar 25, 1998

Well, this administration, if the gentleman will yield, is a horrible record. This is totally consistent with what the administration did the last time we were out on vacation. What did they do? They moved to eliminate the final…

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Mar 18, 1998

it all comes down to this. Those people who are supporting the resolution of the gentleman from California (Mr. Campbell) believe that the President of the United States should not be able to send our troops all over the world in…

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Feb 12, 1998

I am here specifically to make sure that people understand that this is a serious issue and that it cannot be negated simply by a misreading of history that Saddam was our friend back in the 1980s or some other type of wishful thinking…

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Feb 12, 1998

we are being warned of possible military action against the Government of Iraq, and I remember well the last time, or should I say the first time, because there have probably been some other military actions against Iraq in the meantime…

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Feb 12, 1998

first of all, I do not know where the gentleman got his information that Saddam Hussein was an ally; a close ally, the gentleman says, of the United States. I am sorry that I was in the White House at the time. Saddam Hussein was never a…

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Feb 12, 1998

first and foremost, when the integrity of our election process is in question, it is certainly something that should be investigated when we have made it more easy for illegal aliens to register to vote with this motor voter program that…

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