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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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Sep 9, 2014

Radical Islam is putting these Christians out of business by killing them. We ought to save them.

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Sep 8, 2014

My colleague from Texas outlined for us today the serious challenges that we face in the Middle East. We have a challenge that is of a historic nature where a significant number of Islamic extremists are taking control of territories; and…

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Sep 8, 2014

We should all consider what our economy would have like in the last 20 years had we not thought through the Alaskan pipeline because the Alaskan pipeline only won by one vote in the United States Congress.

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Sep 8, 2014

Your inability to answer directly these questions, will you confirm for us that there is game-playing going on and that you just won't answer anything that in any way could reflect badly on this whole idea of that--of what your agency is…

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Sep 8, 2014

Frankly, it is--most of us believe and--on the side of the aisle that social engineering goals are being accomplished by this Administration by using regulatory powers that government has been given.

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Sep 8, 2014

We are blessed with a great gift of oil and gas in North Dakota and I hope that we are able to get the flaring under control because that does reflect a waste of wealth and also something that could be harmful to people's health.

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Sep 8, 2014

I would just like to associate myself with the profound and passionate remarks of Judge Poe.

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Sep 8, 2014

Unfortunately, decisions made to continue the type of attacks and repression that the Burmese leadership are permitting on the ethnic groups as well as the elimination of freedom, personal freedoms, and individual rights among the Burmese…

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Sep 8, 2014

This legislation is a clear statement that the Government of Burma ignores at its own peril.

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Sep 8, 2014

This legislation today that we are submitting is a warning to the Government of Burma creating the facade of democratic reform is not enough.

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Jul 29, 2014

CO2 again is not harmful to people's health. Reducing it by this teeny weeny microscopic amount and hurting people's jobs, et cetera, throwing us into turmoil and restructuring our business is absurd.

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Jul 29, 2014

That is totally absurd, so CO2 is not harmful to human beings, right?

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Jul 29, 2014

CO2 actually is harmful to humans?

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Jul 29, 2014

I think that is the most troubling aspect of this is looking at that small subset as the model for the rest of the country.

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Jul 29, 2014

Let me just note that when jobs are really destroyed in our country... that means there are fewer jobs because there is not the wealth to create the jobs.

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Jul 28, 2014

Let me note that there seem to be some people in the United States who are hellbent to reignite the Cold War.

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Jul 28, 2014

I always think it is best to go specifically at the issues at hand, but people do have a right, and the ranking member certainly has a right to question the validity of witnesses.

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Jul 28, 2014

Let me just note, historically I have spent most of my life fighting communism and fighting the Soviet Union.

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Jul 28, 2014

The United States, along with the West, freedom-loving folks, need to impose sanctions that actually work.

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Jul 28, 2014

Putin has not been stopped. I don't know that he will be stopped unless we actually want some answers and some results from the aggression.

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Jul 28, 2014

I think all things should be transparent, and I think when we have hearings that we should be focusing on ideas and information that can help us determine what the reality is and find different avenues to find solutions to the problems we…

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Jul 28, 2014

Whatever agreement that he signed with Russia, could the people of Ukraine have elected a Parliament that would have eliminated that 2 years down the road?

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Jul 28, 2014

The most important thing that you are bringing out is that the violence that we are talking about did not start with the separatists taking over a building in the eastern part of Ukraine, although that was a violent act.

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Jul 28, 2014

So the people who are seizing buildings, the first buildings that were seized that I remember in Ukraine were seized by the people who were trying to force the democratically elected President out of his office.

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Jul 28, 2014

I think your point that we have been calling for cease-fires in Palestine, Israeli cease-fires, we don't seem to be putting that type of energy into calling for cease-fires and negotiations in Ukraine.

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