Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California
In office January 3, 1989 – January 3, 2019
Preceded by
Dan Lungren
Succeeded by
Harley Rouda
Constituency
42nd district (1989–1993)
45th district (1993–2003)
46th district (2003–2013)
48th district (2013–2019)
Personal details
Born
(1947-06-21) June 21, 1947 (age 76) Coronado, California, U.S.
Political party
Republican
Spouse
Rhonda Carmony
(m. 1997)
Children
3
Education
Los Angeles Harbor College California State University, Long Beach (BA) University of Southern California (MA)
Dana Rohrabacher's voice
Dana Rohrabacher honors physicist Alfred E. Mann Recorded June 7, 2012
Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher (/ˈrɔːrəˌbɑːkər/ROR-ə-BAH-kər; born June 21, 1947) is an American former politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 2019. A Republican, he represented California's 48th congressional district for the last three terms of his House tenure. Rohrabacher was defeated by Democrat Harley Rouda in 2018. Rohrabacher has expressed strong pro-Russia and pro-Putin opinions which have raised questions about his relationship with Vladimir Putin and the Russian government. Politico dubbed him as "Putin's favorite congressman".
Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher (/ˈrɔːrəˌbɑːkər/ ROR-ə-BAH-kər; born June 21, 1947) is an American former politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives...
in the 2018 election, when he defeated 15-term Republican incumbent DanaRohrabacher. He was defeated for reelection by Orange County Supervisor Michelle...
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to intern for California congressman DanaRohrabacher, President Ronald Reagan's former speechwriter. Rohrabacher described Prince as "a bright, driven...
incumbents Jeff Denham, David Valadao, Steve Knight, Mimi Walters, and DanaRohrabacher (who had been elected to fifteen terms) were all defeated. Democrats...
congressional district seat for the 2018 midterm elections held by DanaRohrabacher. Baugh finished fourth in the primary. Baugh was a Republican candidate...
the 115th session. The bipartisan caucus was founded by Republicans DanaRohrabacher and Don Young and Democrats Earl Blumenauer and Jared Polis. The Congressional...
Angola, and former Reagan speechwriter and former U.S. Congressman DanaRohrabacher, who made several secret visits with the mujahideen in Afghanistan...
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all smoked pot back in the day". Chicago Tribune. Rohrabacher, Dana (May 13, 2013). "DanaRohrabacher: The colossal failure of marijuana prohibition"....
operating under Iranian state sponsorship. In 2006, US Congressman DanaRohrabacher said that the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the U...
Republican then-Congressman DanaRohrabacher over his defense of Russian president Vladimir Putin. At the time, Rohrabacher was considered a candidate...
are armed with guns. He also interviews other conservatives, such as DanaRohrabacher, Joe Wilson, and Joe Walsh, who are openly supportive. Only Matt Gaetz...
Rohrabacher was found guilty and fined $50,000. (2012) Jack Wenpo Wu (R) Treasurer for the Re-election Campaign of US Representative DanaRohrabacher...
citizens to other countries. On 11 April 2016, while on a trip to Moscow, DanaRohrabacher obtained from Yuri Chaika a confidential memo of accusations against...
please', you come home and she is gone." Smirnoff was enlisted by DanaRohrabacher, who was then a speechwriter for Reagan, to help with material for...
defense system. He gave the paper to California Republican Congressman DanaRohrabacher, and his career as a defense consultant began. Baxter received a series...
convictions deepened. — Steve Coll, in Ghost Wars U.S. Congressman DanaRohrabacher also recalled: [B]etween Bush's inauguration and 9/11, I met with the...