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Robert Dornan: Dear Mr. Speaker, since 1992 Republican elected officials and Republican spokespeople have been critical of the…

On the recordJuly 30, 1996
Dear Mr. Speaker, since 1992 Republican elected officials and Republican spokespeople have been critical of the Democratic Party for the treatment of Gov. Robert Patrick Casey at the 1992 Democratic Convention because of his refusal to back down on a matter of conscious and religious conviction, the abortion issue. Well, he says with exclamation points, no more. Your treatment of Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey, an Irish Catholic, and I am going to leave out the next Irish Catholics because I am cooling my jets here as the conference chairman suggested, on the same issue ranks right up there with the insult to Casey and Catholics in general by the Clinton team in 1992, and that insult continues. Remember that George Bush was on the ramp of Detroit with the Holy Father when the Pope said, stand up for life. And Barbara and George Bush, then the President and First Lady, went yes, yes, yes. And the last time Clinton stiffed him because he was leaving from Baltimore Airport, I was there, and the Pope said again, we must defend and protect innocent human life.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California

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Discussing the treatment of pro-life politicians by the Democratic Party.

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