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.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And again I want to point out that the leadership of Mr. Engel and Mr. Royce have again demonstrated that there are a lot of areas that we can work together on.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Mr. Chairman, for having this hearing today and organized as it is so that we can have a better understanding of the goals and the technology needed to achieve those goals.
I'm very pleased to hear that all that money that we spent on fusion energy didn't go to waste.
Most of the people who come here, most of the people flooding here, even the illegals, are basically wonderful people. But that doesn't mean that we can bring in more than that, 1 million-- By the way, we need to understand, don't condemn…
I have not been a friend of necessarily spending more money on fusion energy. I felt that was something that doesn't seem like we've made much progress.
Venezuela used to be a shining example of how freedom can work, and although there were a lot of problems people were working together there peacefully.
Well let's see if we can do that. That's an avenue--we shouldn't just look at scientific basic research as simply it's going to be part of the federal bureaucratic programs that we--let's see if we can make things more efficient by making…
Rather than giving $150 billion to their oppressors, we should be seeing what people we can actually be supportive of in Iran who oppose the mullah regime.
I think that should be unacceptable and you can rest assured that those of us on this committee will be backing you up when you make such stands.
my colleagues on the other side of the aisle lament that we got out of the Paris Treaty, which really cost us billions of dollars, billions.
We should also be concerned about Turkey. Turkey is going exactly the wrong way.
I happen to believe in limited government, and I believe how we can make sure that government doesn't grow out of proportion is making sure that science develops alternatives so that we can solve vexing problems through science rather than…
If there is a way that someone is using the research, should we not try to make further demands on people?
I think it is highly likely, and I am not getting into details right now but probably behind closed doors, that we are conducting extensive and then listening and hacking, if you will, overseas and we are sharing that with our European…
we need to be working with Russia to defeat radical Islam because that threatens their people and it threatens our people.
I voted against permitting the government to have more spying on American citizens, all right.
The resilience of the British people, however, is inspiring and reminds me of why America is fortunate to call the British people our friends.
Our partners and our allies in Europe have suffered terribly at the hands of violent Islamic terrorists.
This hearing serves as one more example of our trans-Atlantic solidarity and our commitment to confront and destroy evil forces in this world.
We are cooperating with Europe, correctly, are we involved in spying on European citizens in order to track down these terrorists that we wouldn't be allowed to do in our own country?
With all due respect, saying that only 3 percent of the terrorists come from the migrant camps or have migrated in totally distorts the view of what we are really talking about.
I mentioned that the ranking member and I, Mr. Keating, went to Russia and we met with the head of their renamed KGB--FSB, I guess they call it--and they were very generous with us with information.





