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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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May 21, 2013

This legislation focuses on exercising economic power to provide incentive for Iran's mullah regime to back away from the development of a nuclear weapon.

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May 20, 2013

In our own revolution, it was when King George I think decided he was going to start enforcing laws by kicking off the people who really were the owners of the property.

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May 20, 2013

I noticed that you are mentioning more now today the idea of districts has been important to democracy.

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May 20, 2013

Radical Islamic forces are not opposed to ownership and not opposed to entrepreneurship.

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May 20, 2013

We have to establish our priorities, and if we try to prioritize something that today has not come, we are doing a big disservice to the young people who are depending on the technologies that we can put in place right now.

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May 20, 2013

Yeah, I think we all agree that eventually human beings are going to go to Mars and we are--because we are on this Committee, we love that vision and hopefully it may be in our lifetime maybe, but eventually isn't the question.

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May 20, 2013

But that is not just saying that we are now going to start--this is our project, we are starting going to Mars and that is how we are doing it.

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May 20, 2013

Unless we think that the tooth fairy is going to leave all the money under the pillow in order to accomplish a mission to Mars, is it really worthwhile?

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May 20, 2013

I would like to ask the panel whether or not they think a mission to Mars is worth the cost or not.

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May 14, 2013

They were chanting in the streets, 'Which side are you on, Mr. Obama?' They didn't know which side the United States was on.

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May 14, 2013

Do you think the Iranian Government has played a role in initiating these attacks?

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May 14, 2013

I have been concerned that this administration from day one has not been as tough on the regime in other ways, other than these sanctions, which are debatably tough one way or the other.

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May 14, 2013

At this point, China is not--has not been given a waiver in its relationship to buy oil from Iran?

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May 8, 2013

Let us make sure we--because that telescope really remains a very important part of the very projects that we are talking about.

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May 8, 2013

And if that money was going to be taken out of your budget to develop the SLS Launch System rather than go with the launch systems that we have already got, would you be supportive of that?

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May 8, 2013

I just want to make sure we understand that the last mission concept does not necessarily rely on the SLS rocket, does it not?

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May 7, 2013

Well, transparency and accountability are two essential ingredients if we are going to have freedom and be able to have decent lives and have any security in our lives at all with freedom.

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May 7, 2013

Well, step one seems to be for us all to agree, Republican and Democrat, that we believe the consumer has a right to know what they are buying and has a right to know what country of origin they are coming from...

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May 7, 2013

I will end it with this, obviously from what we have heard today, the American people are facing a threat, a major threat to their well being.

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May 7, 2013

We need to make sure that number one, labeling means something.

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May 7, 2013

I personally go out of my way to try to not buy products in China because I have concluded, that is one of the reasons we are holding this hearing.

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May 7, 2013

So American consumer, if some of us are concerned with the standards in China, we don't know that we are consuming something from China even--and that's not on anywhere near on the label, right?

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May 7, 2013

Is there any question that some Vitamin C may not be up to standard?

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May 7, 2013

It is ironic that for all of these years, the communists were talking about how horrible free enterprise and capitalism is and here they have turned their back on their own country while they still have a government that claims allegiance…

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May 7, 2013

Chinese producers are motivated to cut corners, dilute content, counterfeit products to maximize profits.

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