Dana Rohrabacher

Dana Rohrabacher is a Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives who has represented three different California Congressional Districts. He was first elected in 1988 to represent the 42nd Congressional District, serving from 1989 to 1992. He represented the 45th Congressional District from 1993 to 2002 and began representing the 46th Congressional District in 2003.http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400343 Rohrabacher won reelection in 2010 with 62.3 percent of the vote.http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2010-general/58-united-states-representative.pdf

Dana Rohrabacher, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is chairman of the committee’s Oversight and Investigation Subcommittee.http://rohrabacher.house.gov/Committees/ He also serves on the subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment and is a senior member of the International Relations Committee.http://rohrabacher.house.gov/Biography/ http://rohrabacher.house.gov/Committees/ Rohrabacher has been on the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee, a subcommittee of the Science and Technology Committee, during his entire tenure in Congress. He chaired the subcommittee from 1997 to 2005.http://rohrabacher.house.gov/Committees/

Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher was born in Coronado, California on June 21, 1947.http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008/elections/ca/house/1048/dana-tyrone-rohrabacher/ http://rohrabacher.house.gov/Biography/ He earned a bachelor’s degree in history at California State University, Long Beach in 1969 and a master's degree in American Studies at the University of Southern California In 1971.http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008/elections/ca/house/1048/dana-tyrone-rohrabacher/ http://rohrabacher.house.gov/Biography/ After finishing college, Rohrabacher worked as a journalist for the Orange County Register and as assistant press secretary on the Ronald Reagan presidential campaigns in 1976 and 1980.http://rohrabacher.house.gov/Biography/ http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000409 He joined the White House staff in 1981 as a special assistant and speechwriter for President Reagan until his own election to Congress in 1988.http://rohrabacher.house.gov/Biography/ http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000409 Rohrabacher lives with his wife, Rhonda Carmony, in Huntington Beach, California.http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008/elections/ca/house/1048/dana-tyrone-rohrabacher/ http://congress.org/congressorg/bio/id/669 The couple became parents of triplets in 2004.http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008/elections/ca/house/1048/dana-tyrone-rohrabacher/

While chairman of the Oversight and Investigation Subcommittee, Rohrabacher introduced a resolution to boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympics because of human rights violations in China.http://rohrabacher.house.gov/Biography/ During Rohrabacher’s chairmanship of the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee, the Commercial Space Act of 1998, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2000 and the Commercial Space Transportation Competitiveness Act of 2000 were enacted. http://rohrabacher.house.gov/Committees/ He has also been honored by the National Federation of Independent Business, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Citizens Against Government Waste and the National Taxpayers Union for his efforts to promote lower taxes and lower government spending.http://rohrabacher.house.gov/Biography/ Rohrabacher supports privatizing Social Security, mandatory sentencing legislation and a presidential line item veto. He opposes enforcing limits on CO2 emissions, increased federal funding of health care and birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens.http://www.issues2000.org/CA/Dana_Rohrabacher.htm Rohrabacher voted along party lines 92.3 percent of the time in the 111th Congress.http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/111/states/ca/