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Robert Dornan: Well, you made a credible case earlier to me on the floor, not just in humor, that if he pursued this and got a finding…

On the recordMay 23, 1996
Well, you made a credible case earlier to me on the floor, not just in humor, that if he pursued this and got a finding of the Supreme Court that he truly was on active duty, at our press conference, one of the press, Less Consolving, of a local radio station, I think he is syndicated, said, ``Does that mean he would have to test for HIV?'' Henry Hyde, our distinguished colleague and chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, said maybe he would have to go through boot camp. An abbreviated one, to be sure. And imagine him on active duty and all the repercussions and fallout from that.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California

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Discussing implications of a Supreme Court finding on active duty status.

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