Dana Rohrabacher

Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-08-28-mn-39769-story.html | work=Los Angeles Times | first=Gebe | last=Martinez | title=Moving From the Fringe to the Forefront: Politics: O.C.'s Dana Rohrabacher is having fun with his newfound clout | date=1995-08-28 | access-date=February 18, 2020 | archive-date=March 6, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306183937/http://articles.latimes.com/1995-08-28/news/mn-39769_1_dana-rohrabacher | url-status=live }} was born on June 21, 1947,{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-12-me-31778-story.html|title=Rohrabacher Won't Coast This Campaign|first=Jean O.|last=Pasco|date=October 12, 1998|website=Los Angeles Times}} in Coronado, California,{{Cite web|url=http://capitolweekly.net/surfer-dana-rohrabacher-blue-wave/|title=Surfer Dana Rohrabacher faces the 'blue wave' - and more|first=Rich|last=Ehisen|date=May 7, 2018|website=Capitol Weekly}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CDIR-1999-06-15/html/CDIR-1999-06-15-CA-H-45.htm|title=Congressional Directory for the 106th Congress (1999-2000), June 1999. -|website=www.govinfo.gov}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/CA/bios/H/669.html|title=Dana Rohrabacher (R - CA - 45)|website=www.cnn.com}} the son of Doris M. (née Haring) and Donald Tyler Rohrabacher.{{cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/reps/rohrabacher.htm|title=rohrabacher|publisher=freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com|access-date=September 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170409200529/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/reps/rohrabacher.htm|archive-date=April 9, 2017|url-status=dead}}{{Better source needed|reason=ancestry.com is not a reliable source and must not be used for ethnicity or descent, per WP:BLPCAT and WP:EGRS.|date=May 2020}} Rohrabacher graduated from Palos Verdes High School in Palos Verdes Estates, California, attended Los Angeles Harbor College, and earned a bachelor's degree in history at California State University, Long Beach in 1969. He received his master's degree in American Studies at the University of Southern California.

File:C38147-7.jpg faking a punch to Dana Rohrabacher aboard Air Force One and trip back to California in 1986]]

While in graduate school and during the early 1970s, Rohrabacher had a side activity as a folk singer.{{cite book|last=Doherty|first=Brian|title=Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement|date=April 28, 2009|publisher=PublicAffairs|title-link=Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement}} He was also a writer for the Orange County Register.{{cite web|title=Dana Rohrbacher – Early Life|url=http://www.rohrabacher.house.gov/about/full-biography|access-date=January 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190102040901/https://rohrabacher.house.gov/about/full-biography|archive-date=January 2, 2019|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}

Rohrabacher served as assistant press secretary to Ronald Reagan during his 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns.{{cite news|last= May|first= Clifford D.|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/11/us/washington-talk-two-house-freshmen-reflect-clash-of-cultures.html|title= Washington Talk; Two House Freshmen Reflect Clash of Cultures|newspaper= The New York Times|date= 1989-05-11|access-date= 2008-04-15|archive-date= July 29, 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180729081516/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/11/us/washington-talk-two-house-freshmen-reflect-clash-of-cultures.html|url-status= live}} Rohrabacher then worked as a speechwriter and special assistant to President Reagan from 1981 to 1988.{{cite web|url=https://medium.com/the-eastern-project/there-s-a-u-s-senator-taking-out-his-frustrations-on-twitter-a5f404b9b20d|title=Dana Rohrabacher's No Good, Very Bad Weekend|last=Gais|first=Hannah|date=April 7, 2015|publisher=The Eastern Project|access-date=May 18, 2015|archive-date=April 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415071923/https://medium.com/the-eastern-project/there-s-a-u-s-senator-taking-out-his-frustrations-on-twitter-a5f404b9b20d|url-status=dead}} During his tenure at the White House, Rohrabacher played a leading role in the formulation of the Reagan Doctrine.

Rohrabacher left the Reagan administration in 1988 to pursue Dan Lungren's recently vacated House seat.{{Cite web |last=Luther |first=Claudia |date=1988-06-02 |title=Rohrabacher Backer : Ollie North Arrives to Play Campaign Role |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-06-02-me-5496-story.html |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} With his friend Oliver North's fundraising help,{{citation needed|date=June 2023}} Rohrabacher won the Republican primary with a plurality of 35%.{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=418202|publisher=Our Campaigns|title=CA District 42 – R Primary Race – Jun 07, 1988|access-date=June 22, 2015|archive-date=June 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622205754/http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=418202|url-status=live}} He won the general election with 64% of the vote.{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=38154|publisher=Our Campaigns|title=CA District 42 Race – Nov 08, 1988|access-date=June 22, 2015|archive-date=June 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622201914/http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=38154|url-status=live}} He twice experienced serious primary competition, in 1992 and 1998. After redistricting, he won a three-candidate primary election in 1992 with a plurality of 48%.{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=502191|publisher=Our Campaigns|title=CA District 45 – R Primary Race – Jun 02, 1992|access-date=June 22, 2015|archive-date=June 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622205827/http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=502191|url-status=live}} In 1998, he won an open primary with 54% of the vote.{{cite web |url=http://primary98.sos.ca.gov/Final/P98_SOV.pdf |title=Statement of Vote, Primary Election June 2, 1998 |access-date=2008-07-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202041654/http://primary98.sos.ca.gov/Final/P98_SOV.pdf |archive-date=2009-02-02 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=555736|publisher=Our Campaigns|title=CA District 45 – Open Primary Race – Jun 02, 1998|access-date=June 22, 2015|archive-date=June 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622220442/http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=555736|url-status=live}}

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In 2008, Rohrabacher defeated Democratic nominee Debbie Cook, 53–43%.{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=334946|publisher=Our Campaigns|title=CA – District 46 Race – Nov 04, 2008|access-date=June 22, 2015|archive-date=June 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622195300/http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=334946|url-status=live}}

{{Main|2010 United States House of Representatives elections in California#District 46}}

In 2010, Rohrabacher defeated Democratic nominee Ken Arnold, 62–38%.{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=488392|publisher=Our Campaigns|title=CA – District 46 Race – Nov 02, 2010|access-date=June 22, 2015|archive-date=June 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622200231/http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=488392|url-status=live}}

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After redistricting, Rohrabacher announced in 2012 that he would run in the newly redrawn 48th Congressional district. He said "The new 48th District is a good fit and something that will enable me to serve my constituents and the country well."{{cite news|url=http://articles.dailypilot.com/2011-08-15/news/tn-dpt-0816-redistricting-20110815_1_new-district-48th-congressional-district-74th-district|title=Redistricting changes 2012 electoral battles|work=Daily Pilot|access-date=June 22, 2015|archive-date=June 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622210957/http://articles.dailypilot.com/2011-08-15/news/tn-dpt-0816-redistricting-20110815_1_new-district-48th-congressional-district-74th-district|url-status=dead}} He won election in the 48th district with 61% of the vote.{{Cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/2012-election/results/house/california/|title=2012 California House Results|website=POLITICO}}

File:U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher shakes hands with a supporter wearing Guy Fawkes mask.jpg in 2013]]

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Rohrabacher won re-election with 64% of the vote.{{cite web |title=Congressional election results by district |url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2014-general/pdf/43-congress.pdf |website=Office of the Secretary of State of California |access-date=25 February 2020 |archive-date=December 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201060037/https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2014-general/pdf/43-congress.pdf |url-status=live }}

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Rohrabacher won re-election with 59% of the vote.{{Cite web|url=https://west.ops.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/house/california/|title=California Election Results 2016: House Live Map by District, Real-Time Voting Updates|website=Election Hub}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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In March 2018, CNN reported that Erik Prince, a former intern of Rohrabacher while he was freshman congressman in 1990 and very close ally of Rohrabacher, hosted a fundraiser at Prince's Virginia home with expected attendees including Oliver North on March 18, 2018.{{cite news |last=Berg |first=Rebecca |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/08/politics/erik-prince-fundraiser/index.html |title=Amid renewed scrutiny, Erik Prince to host fundraiser for Russia-friendly congressman |work=CNN |date=March 8, 2018 |access-date=January 27, 2021 |archive-date=February 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201225114/https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/08/politics/erik-prince-fundraiser/index.html |url-status=live }} On October 12, 2018, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Congressional Leadership Fund, a Super PAC closely associated with House Speaker Paul Ryan, had passed over Rohrabacher in its initial round of broadcast television advertising across Southern California.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-gop-money-20181012-story.html|title=Top GOP funding group snubs incumbents Rohrabacher and Walters 3 weeks before midterm election|last1=Finnegan|first1=Michael|last2=Barabak|first2=Mark Z.|date=October 13, 2018|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2018-11-11|archive-date=February 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212125002/https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-gop-money-20181012-story.html|url-status=live}} Rohrabacher's campaign denied this, saying that CLF had spent "about $2.4 million and they have an additional $1 million in media buys scheduled" for Rohrabacher.{{Cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/411416-top-gop-funding-group-pulls-money-from-embattled-california-rep-dana/|title=GOP super PAC pushes back on report it skipped ad buys for California's Rohrabacher, Walters|last=Keller|first=Megan|date=2018-10-15|work=TheHill|access-date=2018-11-11|language=en|df=mdy-all|archive-date=March 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210311232802/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/411416-top-gop-funding-group-pulls-money-from-embattled-california-rep-dana|url-status=live}}

Democrat Harley Rouda defeated Rohrabacher on Election Day.{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/10/rouda-defeats-rohrabacher-in-southern-california-race-982946|title=Rouda defeats Rohrabacher in southern California|author=Quint Forgey|date=November 10, 2018|work=Politico|access-date=November 11, 2018|archive-date=November 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115041604/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/10/rouda-defeats-rohrabacher-in-southern-california-race-982946|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-voters-cal-20181130-story.html|title=California Republicans see what happens when more voters vote, and they don't like it one bit|last=Hiltzik|first=Michael|date=November 30, 2018|access-date=2018-12-03|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|archive-date=February 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213052839/https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-voters-cal-20181130-story.html|url-status=live}}

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File:FRC President Tony Perkins presents the "True Blue" award to Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.jpg President Tony Perkins in 2003]]

Rohrabacher was charged with improper use of campaign contributions in connection with a 1995 state assembly election. Rohrabacher provided some of his campaign funds to his campaign manager (and future wife), Rhonda Carmony, to promote a decoy Democratic candidate to draw away votes from another Democratic candidate. Rohrabacher was found guilty and fined $50,000.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/tn-dpt-1029-rohrabacher-20111028-story.html|title=Rohrabacher defends wife's pay|date=October 28, 2011|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=March 23, 2023|archive-date=November 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114141634/http://www.latimes.com/tn-dpt-1029-rohrabacher-20111028-story.html|url-status=live}}[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-10-26-me-57826-story.html "Rohrabacher Pays Fines for Not Filing Report"] Gene Martinez, LA Times, latimes.com, October 26, 1996

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On November 4, 2005, the Los Angeles Times reported that Rohrabacher was paid $23,000 for a 30-year-old screen play he had written. At issue was whether the producer paid him for the screenplay or for introductions to congressional and federal officials. Rohrabacher said that the introductions were made in good faith, were nothing that was not done regularly for legitimate causes, and that the introductions had only become an issue because of Joseph Medawar's alleged misdeeds.{{cite news|last= Welkos|first= Robert W.|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-dec-11-ca-rohrabacher11-story.html|title= And now, the plot thickens|newspaper= Los Angeles Times|date= 2005-12-11|access-date= 2008-04-15|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080609060204/http://articles.latimes.com/2005/12/11/calendar/ca-rohrabacher11|archive-date= June 9, 2008|url-status= live}} In May 2006, Rohrabacher announced through his press secretary that he would return the $23,000 (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US|value=23000|start_year=2006}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}). The decision was made public shortly before Medawar took responsibility in a United States District Court for bilking $3.4 million from about 50 investors.{{cite news|title=Rohrabacher to Give Back $23,000 – Los Angeles Times | first1=Greg | last1=Krikorian | first2=Christine | last2=Hanley | date=2006-05-17}}

During a trip to Iraq in June 2011, Rohrabacher said that when Iraq becomes a wealthy nation, it should pay back the US for all the money it had spent since the Iraq invasion. Rohrabacher also commented that he would be holding a hearing with the Sub-Committee on Oversight and Investigations into whether Iraq committed "crimes against humanity" during an attack on Camp Ashraf in April 2011. The incident left 34 residents killed and over 300 wounded. The delegation was denied access to the camp by Iraqi government, citing their sovereignty. Rohrabacher's delegation was subsequently asked to leave the country.{{cite news|title=Dana Rohrabacher, U.S. Congressman, Suggests That Iraq Pay Back U.S. For War Cos|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/10/dana-rohrabacher-iraq-war-cost_n_875163.html|work=The Huffington Post|access-date=June 11, 2011|date=2011-06-10|archive-date=June 12, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612180109/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/10/dana-rohrabacher-iraq-war-cost_n_875163.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/war-zones/iraq-bars-us-visit-to-iranian-camp/2011/06/10/AGqpHFPH_story.html | newspaper=The Washington Post | first=William | last=Wan | date=2011-06-10 | title=Iraq bars U.S. visit to Iranian camp | access-date=August 26, 2017 | archive-date=November 1, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171101095540/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/war-zones/iraq-bars-us-visit-to-iranian-camp/2011/06/10/AGqpHFPH_story.html | url-status=live }}

Rohrabacher was warned in 2012 in a secure room at the Capitol building by an agent from the FBI that Russian spies may have been trying to recruit him to act on Russia's behalf as an "agent of influence", after he met with a member of the Russian foreign ministry privately in Moscow.{{cite news|last=Sharkov|first=Damien|url=https://www.newsweek.com/republican-congressman-russian-spy-recruit-612381|title=FBI Warned Republican Congressman Who Arm-Wrestled Putin of Russian Spy Recruitment|work=Newsweek|date=May 19, 2017|access-date=January 22, 2019|archive-date=May 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505060757/https://www.newsweek.com/republican-congressman-russian-spy-recruit-612381|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Apuzzo|first1=Matt|last2=Goldman|first2=Adam|last3=Mazzetti|first3=Mark|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/dana-rohrabacher-russia-spies.html?_r=0&login=smartlock&auth=login-smartlock|title=F.B.I. Once Warned G.O.P. Congressman That Russian Spies Were Recruiting Him|work=The New York Times|date=May 19, 2017|access-date=January 22, 2019|archive-date=January 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122195636/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/dana-rohrabacher-russia-spies.html?_r=0&login=smartlock&auth=login-smartlock|url-status=live}} Following the ISIS terrorist attacks in Tehran on June 7, 2017, in which 17 civilians were killed, he suggested that the attack could be viewed as 'a good thing', and surmised that President Trump might have been behind the coordination of this terrorist attack.Rep. Dana Rohrabacher suggested that the #ISIS attacks on #Iran could be viewed as 'a good thing.', [https://www.facebook.com/NIACouncil/videos/10155549174868938/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404103839/https://www.facebook.com/NIACouncil/videos/10155549174868938/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED|date=April 4, 2023}}, Retrieved June 9, 2017 An article in The Atlantic suggested that there was serious concern in the State Department of ties between Rohrabacher and the Russian government.Rosie Gray, July 18, 2017, The Atlantic, [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/russian-anti-sanctions-campaign-turned-to-california-congressman/534102/ Russian Anti-Sanctions Campaign Turned to California Congressman: U.S. diplomats were concerned about Russian outreach to House Republican Dana Rohrabacher while on a trip to Moscow last year.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224010744/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/russian-anti-sanctions-campaign-turned-to-california-congressman/534102/ |date=February 24, 2018 }}, Retrieved July 18, 2017, "...{{nbsp}}Rohrabacher's 2016 Moscow trip raised eyebrows among U.S. officials, particularly at the State Department{{nbsp}}..."

In June 2015, Rohrabacher released a statement accusing former treasurer of his reelection committee, Jack Wu, of embezzling more than $170,000 from his campaign. Rohrabacher's attorney, Charles H. Bell Jr., stated that the congressman had filed criminal charges against Wu with the Orange County district attorney and state attorney general.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-rohrabacher-campaign-embezzlement-170-000-20150624-story.html|title=Rohrabacher accuses campaign treasurer of stealing $170,000|first=Michael|last=Finnegan|date=June 24, 2015|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=February 18, 2020|archive-date=October 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025210211/https://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-rohrabacher-campaign-embezzlement-170-000-20150624-story.html|url-status=live}}

Following the election of Donald Trump in 2016, Rohrabacher was on the shortlist for Secretary of State along with Mitt Romney and eventual pick Rex Tillerson.{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/307540-california-rep-says-hes-under-consideration-for-secretary-of-state/|title=Calif. rep says he's under consideration for secretary of State|first=Evelyn|last=Rupert|date=November 25, 2016|newspaper=The Hill|access-date=December 19, 2017|archive-date=August 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802155557/http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/307540-california-rep-says-hes-under-consideration-for-secretary-of-state|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/secretary-of-state-candidate-rep-dana-rohrabacher-defends-russia-denounces-china-201557094.html|title=Secretary of state candidate Rep. Dana Rohrabacher defends Russia, denounces China|first=Christopher|last=Wilson|date=December 7, 2016|newspaper=Yahoo News|access-date=November 11, 2018|archive-date=September 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919195104/https://www.yahoo.com/news/secretary-of-state-candidate-rep-dana-rohrabacher-defends-russia-denounces-china-201557094.html|url-status=live}}

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• Committee on Foreign Affairs
• Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia
• Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Chair)
• Committee on Science, Space and Technology
• Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics
• Subcommittee on Energy and Environment

Rohrabacher chaired the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee of the House Science Committee from 1997 until January 2005; he received a two-year waiver to serve beyond the six-year term limit.

As a senior member of the International Relations Committee, Rohrabacher led the effort to deny Most Favored Nation trading status to the People's Republic of China, citing that nation's dismal human rights record and opposition to democracy. His subcommittee assignments were East Asia and Pacific, and Middle East and South Asia.

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• Freedom Caucus{{cite web|url=http://kelliward.com/articles/u-s-rep-dana-rohrabacher-endorses-dr-kelli-ward-for-united-states-senate|title=U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher endorses Dr. Kelli Ward for United States Senate|date=January 23, 2018|access-date=July 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124071634/http://kelliward.com/articles/u-s-rep-dana-rohrabacher-endorses-dr-kelli-ward-for-united-states-senate|archive-date=January 24, 2018|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}{{cite news|url=http://onthehill.tnjournal.net/gop-rep-rohrabacher-campaigns-for-matheny/|title=GOP Rep. Rohrabacher campaigns for Matheny|newspaper=The Tennessee Journal|first=Erik|last=Schelzig|date=July 2, 2018|access-date=July 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728035737/http://onthehill.tnjournal.net/gop-rep-rohrabacher-campaigns-for-matheny/|archive-date=July 28, 2018|url-status=dead}}
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In foreign policy, Rohrabacher supported withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan, called for Trump to punish Turkish President Erdoğan on embassy violence,{{Cite news|url=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lawmakers-push-trump-to-punish-erdogan-over-embassy-violence/article/2624165|title=Lawmakers push Trump to punish Erdogan over embassy violence|last=Gehrke|first=Joel|work=The Washington Examiner|access-date=2017-05-26|language=en|archive-date=May 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170527102415/http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lawmakers-push-trump-to-punish-erdogan-over-embassy-violence/article/2624165|url-status=live}} sided with Russia in the Russia–Georgia war, and gave a qualified defense of the annexation of Crimea in 2014.Jonathan Weisman, March 28, 2014, The New York Times, [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/29/us/politics/kremlin-finds-a-defender-in-congress.html Kremlin Finds a Defender in Congress] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111224321/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/29/us/politics/kremlin-finds-a-defender-in-congress.html |date=November 11, 2020 }}, Retrieved August 1, 2017, "...{{nbsp}}There is some logic to Mr. Rohrabacher's stalwart defense of the Kremlin's actions. The people of Crimea{{nbsp}}..."

Rohrabacher has expressed strong pro-Russia and pro-Putin opinions{{cite web |last1=Tau |first1=Byron |last2=Nicholas |first2=Peter |last3=Hughes |first3=Siobhan |title=GOP Congressman Sought Trump Deal on WikiLeaks, Russia |website=The Wall Street Journal |date=September 15, 2017 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-congressman-sought-trump-deal-on-wikileaks-russia-1505509918 |access-date=February 16, 2023 |archive-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114003031/https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-congressman-sought-trump-deal-on-wikileaks-russia-1505509918 |url-status=live}} which have raised questions about his relationship with Vladimir Putin and the Russian government. Politico{{Cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/putin-congress-rohrabacher-trump-231775|title=Putin's favorite congressman|date=November 23, 2016|website=Politico}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/10/dana-rohrabacher-loses-congressional-seat-orange-county-russia-putin|title=Republican dubbed 'Russia's favorite congressman' loses seat after 30 years|first=Andrew|last=Gumbel|date=November 11, 2018|newspaper=The Guardian}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/dana-rohrabacher-capitol-riot-maine-b1866552.html|title='Putin's favourite congressman' Dana Rohrabacher spotted at the Capitol insurrection rally|date=June 15, 2021|website=The Independent}} and others{{Cite web|url=https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/vladimir-putin-going-need-new-favorite-congressman-msna1164271|title=Vladimir Putin is going to need a new favorite congressman|date=November 12, 2018|publisher=MSNBC}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/2018/11/10/18071518/midterm-election-results-dana-rohrabacher-russia-putin|title=Dana Rohrabacher, Putin's favorite Congress member, just lost his House seat|first=Alex|last=Ward|date=November 10, 2018|website=Vox}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/dana-rohrabachers-democratic-opponent-declares-victory/575203/|title=Putin's Favorite Congressman Has Lost His Reelection|first=Natasha|last=Bertrand|date=November 11, 2018|website=The Atlantic}}{{Cite web|url=https://observer.com/2018/04/rachel-payne-dana-rohrabacher-congressional-challenger/|title=Meet the Former Google Executive Challenging Vladimir Putin's Favorite Congressman|website=The New York Observer |date=April 18, 2018}} have dubbed him "Putin's favorite congressman".

Early in Rohrabacher's congressional career in 1990 or 1991, KGB agent and deputy mayor of Saint Petersburg Vladimir Putin and two other Russians entered Rohrabacher's congressional office in Washington, D.C. In a 2013 interview, Rohrabacher asserted that he and Putin later became close friends.{{cite web |last1=Rabe |first1=John |last2=Felde |first2=Kitty |url=https://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/2013/09/12/33692/congressman-dana-rohrabacher-i-arm-wrestled-vladim/ |title=Rep. Dana Rohrabacher: I arm-wrestled Vladimir Putin ... and lost! |publisher=KPCC |date=September 12, 2013 |access-date=October 7, 2020 |archive-date=October 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021091347/https://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/2013/09/12/33692/congressman-dana-rohrabacher-i-arm-wrestled-vladim/ |url-status=live }}

According to Erik Prince, Prince, as an intern on Rohrabacher's staff, travelled around the world on fact finding missions to support Rohrabacher's interests.{{cite magazine |last=Hettena |first=Seth |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/erik-prince-libya-blackwater-roger-stone-trump-2020-election-1077089/ |title=Erik Prince's Private Wars: The Blackwater founder wants to bring back his company's glory days — and he's campaigning for Donald Trump's help to do it. But he's haunted by past failures and is facing questions about a mercenary fiasco in Libya |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=October 25, 2020 |access-date=September 27, 2023 |archive-date=March 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210313133051/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/erik-prince-libya-blackwater-roger-stone-trump-2020-election-1077089/}}{{cite book |last=Prince |first=Erik |author-link=Erik Prince |title=Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror |publisher=Portfolio |date=November 18, 2013 |isbn=978-1-59184-721-2}}

Rohrabacher called the Russian banker Aleksandr Torshin, a Putin ally, "sort of the conservatives' favorite Russian".{{cite web |last=Glum |first=Julia |url=https://www.newsweek.com/alexander-torshin-donald-trump-jr-meeting-716095 |title=Who Is Alexander Torshin? Russian Banker Linked With Putin Talked With Donald Trump Jr. at 2016 Dinner |work=Newsweek |date=November 18, 2017 |access-date=October 7, 2020 |archive-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201005222741/https://www.newsweek.com/alexander-torshin-donald-trump-jr-meeting-716095}}

On September 8, 2008, at a House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee meeting, Rohrabacher argued that the Georgians had initiated a recent military confrontation in the ongoing Russia–Georgia war.{{cite news|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/12/america/NA-US-Lawmaker-Russia-Georgia.php|title=US Congressman defends Russia in Georgia conflict|work=International Herald Tribune|date=2008-09-12|access-date=2008-09-12|archive-date=September 18, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918021713/http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/12/america/NA-US-Lawmaker-Russia-Georgia.php|url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=http://www.kommersant.com/p-13183/r_538/Russia_Georgia_conflict_U.S._hearings |title=U.S. Intelligence Sees It Russia's Way |work=Kommersant |date=2008-09-10 |access-date=2008-09-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080912231620/http://www.kommersant.com/p-13183/r_538/Russia_Georgia_conflict_U.S._hearings/ |archive-date=2008-09-12 }}{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/2827424/Rebel-Republican-congressman-Dana-Rohrabacher-backs-Russia-over-Georgia.html|title=Rebel Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher backs Russia over Georgia|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=2008-09-14|access-date=2008-09-14|location=London|archive-date=April 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404223053/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/2827424/Rebel-Republican-congressman-Dana-Rohrabacher-backs-Russia-over-Georgia.html|url-status=live}}

In 2012, the FBI warned Rohrabacher that his support for Russia's interests was allowing Russia to cultivate him for its purposes.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/dana-rohrabacher-russia-spies.html |title=F.B.I. Once Warned G.O.P. Congressman That Russian Spies Were Recruiting Him |work=The New York Times |last1=Apuzzo |first1=Matt |last2=Goldman |first2=Adam |last3=Mazzetti |first3=Mark |date=May 19, 2017 |access-date=March 11, 2020 |archive-date=November 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171121144509/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/dana-rohrabacher-russia-spies.html}}

In February 2013, Rohrabacher gave a speech urging the right to self-determination for the Baloch people in Pakistan at an UNPO conference in London.{{cite news|url=http://dawn.com/2013/02/27/us-congressman-rohrabacher-demands-referendum-in-balochistan/|title=US Congressman Rohrabacher demands referendum in Balochistan|work=Dawn|access-date=June 22, 2015|archive-date=May 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524142418/http://dawn.com/2013/02/27/us-congressman-rohrabacher-demands-referendum-in-balochistan/|url-status=live}}

In April 2014, he tweeted that "If majority of people legally residing in Alaska want to be part of Russia then it's OK with me."{{cite tweet |user=DanaRohrabacher |number=451228349869088768 |date=April 1, 2014 |title=@YoImSean If majority of people legally residing in Alaska want to be part of Russia then its OK with me |access-date=2017-02-08}}{{cite web |last1=Summer |first1=Mark |title=Dana Rohrabacher is prepared to support his president—Vladimir Putin |url=https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/19/1682025/-Dana-Rohrabacher-is-prepared-to-support-his-president-Vladimir-Putin |publisher=Daily Kos |access-date=August 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180807044109/https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/19/1682025/-Dana-Rohrabacher-is-prepared-to-support-his-president-Vladimir-Putin |archive-date=2018-08-07 |url-status=live |language=en |date=July 19, 2017 }}

In April 2016, Rohrabacher and a member of his staff, Paul Behrends, traveled to Russia and returned with Yuri Chaika's confidential talking points memo about incriminating information on Democratic donors. The talking points paper used at the Trump Tower meeting on June 9, 2016 by Natalia Veselnitskaya was very similar to the document Rohrabacher had obtained from Chaika in April.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/us/politics/trump-tower-veselnitskaya-russia.html |title=Talking Points Brought to Trump Tower Meeting Were Shared With Kremlin |work=The New York Times |last1=LaFraniere |first1=Sharon |last2=Kramer |first2=Andrew E. |date=October 27, 2017 |access-date=March 11, 2020 |archive-date=November 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171122152318/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/us/politics/trump-tower-veselnitskaya-russia.html}}

Rohrabacher is known for his longtime friendship with Putin and for his defense of "the Russian point of view".{{cite news|title=Putin's Washington|url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/putins-washington-113894#ixzz3O6keOMJp|work=Politico Magazine|date=January–February 2015|last=O'Brien|first=Luke|access-date=April 24, 2023|archive-date=October 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007222835/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/putins-washington-113894/#ixzz3O6keOMJp|url-status=live}}{{cite magazine|url=https://theweek.com/speedreads/666135/gop-rep-dana-rohrabacher-fiercely-defends-russia-calls-human-rights-violations-baloney|title=GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher fiercely defends Russia, calls human rights violations 'baloney'|date=December 8, 2016|magazine=The Week|access-date=February 18, 2020|archive-date=October 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191004130536/https://theweek.com/speedreads/666135/gop-rep-dana-rohrabacher-fiercely-defends-russia-calls-human-rights-violations-baloney|url-status=live}} On June 15, 2016, then-House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told a group of Republicans, "'There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump. Swear to God'". Then-House Speaker Paul Ryan ended the conversation by saying "'No leaks. This is how we know we're a real family here'". The Republicans present were sworn to secrecy.{{cite news |first=Adam |last=Entous |date=May 17, 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html |title=House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: 'I think Putin pays' Trump |access-date=May 17, 2017 |quote='There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,'...Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia... |archive-date=February 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180225005538/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html}} Brendan Buck, counselor to Paul Ryan, initially denied these reports, but was then told that The Washington Post had a recording.{{cite news |title=Majority Leader McCarthy in 2016: 'I think Putin pays Trump' |work=The Hill |date=May 17, 2017 |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/333951-majority-leader-mccarthy-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/ |access-date=May 17, 2017 |archive-date=May 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517224357/http://thehill.com/homenews/house/333951-majority-leader-mccarthy-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump |url-status=live }} After the recording was leaked by the Post in May 2017, McCarthy said the comment was intended as a joke.{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/341788-exclusive-doj-let-russian-lawyer-into-us-before-she-met-with-trump/|title=Exclusive: DOJ let Russian lawyer into US before she met with Trump team|first=Alicia|last=Cohn|date=July 12, 2017|newspaper=The Hill|access-date=July 13, 2017|archive-date=July 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713154720/http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/341788-exclusive-doj-let-russian-lawyer-into-us-before-she-met-with-trump|url-status=live}}

Around that time, Rohrabacher planned—in his capacity as chair of the Europe subcommittee—to hold a hearing on the Magnitsky Act, which bars certain Russian officials from entering the United States or holding any financial assets in American banks. Rohrabacher reportedly wanted Bill Browder, the American-born investor who had lobbied for the act's passage after what he claims was the illegal appropriation of his hedge fund's assets and the subsequent murder of his Russian lawyer, to testify. Rohrabacher planned to subject him to what was described as a "show trial". In addition to questioning Browder closely and skeptically about his claims, Rohrabacher intended to show a feature-length documentary film critical of the Magnitsky claims.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/10/world/europe/sergei-magnitsky-russia-vladimir-putin.html|title=Film About Russian Lawyer's Death Creates an Uproar|newspaper=The New York Times|last=Landler|first=Mark|date=June 9, 2016|access-date=March 11, 2020|archive-date=June 15, 2016|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160615131010/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/10/world/europe/sergei-magnitsky-russia-vladimir-putin.html?_r=0|url-status=live}} Another scheduled witness was Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, a longtime lobbyist against the Magnitsky Act who attended the June 9 Trump Tower meeting.{{cite news|last=Hines|first=Nico|title=GOP Lawmaker Got Direction From Moscow, Took It Back to D.C.|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-lawmaker-got-direction-from-moscow-took-it-back-to-dc|newspaper=The Daily Beast|date=July 19, 2017|access-date=July 19, 2017|archive-date=July 20, 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170720015603/http://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-lawmaker-got-direction-from-moscow-took-it-back-to-dc|url-status=live}} In July 2017, Browder testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that persons supporting the interests of foreign governments or acting on their behalf, especially Russia, must comply with Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) requirements, and that no one behind the screening of the Andrei Nekrasov film had met the disclosure filings under FARA.{{cite news |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/bill-browders-testimony-to-the-senate-judiciary-committee/534864/ |title=Bill Browder's Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee |work=The Atlantic |last=Gray |first=Rosie |date=July 25, 2017 |access-date=March 11, 2020 |archive-date=July 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20170726042452/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/bill-browders-testimony-to-the-senate-judiciary-committee/534864/ |url-status=live}}

When Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Ed Royce learned of Rohrabacher's plans, he canceled the hearing and forbade Rohrabacher from showing the film. In its stead, he held a full committee hearing on U.S.–Russia relations at which Rohrabacher was allowed to submit some of the pro-Russian claims into evidence. The film was ultimately shown at the Newseum, and an intern in Rohrabacher's office who later worked for the Trump transition team sent emails promoting the film from the subcommittee offices.

After Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, Rohrabacher defended his approach to improving Russian–American relations. He had previously met at least twice with Rinat Akhmetshin, a former Soviet spy "who met with President Trump's son, son-in-law and campaign manager in June 2016", to discuss Russian sanctions.{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-rohrabacher-has-met-with-lobbyist-who-1500062618-htmlstory.html|title=California politics updates: Legislature extends cap-and-trade on a rare bipartisan vote|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2017-07-18|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|archive-date=December 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181230115142/https://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-rohrabacher-has-met-with-lobbyist-who-1500062618-htmlstory.html|url-status=live}}

In a May 2017 interview with CNN, Rohrabacher said, "'We have a huge double standard with Russia when it comes to prisoners and other things'". Rohrabacher added that interference by the Russian intelligence services' in the 2016 U.S. election was the same as the National Security Agency (NSA) bugging German Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone.{{Cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/04/politics/rohrabacher-prevezon/index.html|title=US Congressman talks Russian money laundering with alleged ex-spy in Berlin|author=Michael Weiss|publisher=CNN|access-date=2017-07-18|archive-date=March 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301135558/https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/04/politics/rohrabacher-prevezon/index.html|url-status=live}}

In July 2017, Rohrabacher voted to impose sanctions on Iran, North Korea, and Russia.{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/25/house-overwhelmingly-approves-russia-sanctions-240951|title=House approves Russia sanctions that handcuff Trump|date=July 25, 2017|work=Politico|access-date=November 17, 2018|archive-date=November 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116131540/https://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/25/house-overwhelmingly-approves-russia-sanctions-240951|url-status=live}}

On 16 August 2017, Rohrabacher visited Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and told him that Trump would pardon him on the condition that he would agree to say that Russia was not involved in the 2016 Democratic National Committee email leaks. At his extradition hearings in 2020, Assange's defense team alleged in court that this offer was made "on instructions from the president". Trump and Rohrabacher subsequently said they had never spoken about the offer, and Rohrabacher said he had made the offer on his own initiative.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/feb/19/donald-trump-offered-julian-assange-pardon-russia-hack-wikileaks |title=Donald Trump 'offered Julian Assange a pardon if he denied Russia link to hack' |work=The Guardian |date=19 February 2020 |access-date=19 February 2020 |author=Bowcott, Owen and Julian Borger}}{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-201708-htmlstory.html#rohrabacher-on-meeting-with-wikileaks-assange-we-talked-about-what-might-be-necessary-to-get-him-out |title=Rohrabacher on meeting with WikiLeaks' Assange: We talked about 'what might be necessary to get him out' |work=Los Angeles Times |date=17 August 2017 |access-date=20 February 2020 |author=Mai-Duc, Christine}}{{cite news |url=https://news.yahoo.com/rohrabacher-confirms-he-offered-trump-pardon-to-assange-for-proof-russia-didnt-hack-dnc-email-131438007.html |title=Rohrabacher confirms he offered Trump pardon to Assange for proof Russia didn't hack DNC email |publisher=Yahoo News |last=Isikoff |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Isikoff |date=February 20, 2020 |access-date=March 2, 2020 |archive-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200220162904/https://news.yahoo.com/rohrabacher-confirms-he-offered-trump-pardon-to-assange-for-proof-russia-didnt-hack-dnc-email-131438007.html?guccounter=1 |url-status=live}}

In October 2017, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs placed restrictions on Rohrabacher's ability to use committee money to pay for foreign travel due to concerns over his interest in Russia.{{cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-leaders-refusing-to-pay-for-dana-rohrabachers-travel-over-russia-fears|title=GOP Leaders Refusing To Pay For Dana Rohrabacher's Travel Over Russia Fears|newspaper=The Daily Beast|access-date=2017-10-24|date=October 24, 2017|last1=Hines|first1=Nico|first2=Sam|last2=Stein|archive-date=October 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171024190703/https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-leaders-refusing-to-pay-for-dana-rohrabachers-travel-over-russia-fears|url-status=live}}

On November 21, 2017, The New York Times reported that Rohrabacher had come under scrutiny from special counsel Robert Mueller and the Senate Intelligence Committee for his close ties to the Kremlin.{{cite web |last=Fandos |first=Nicholas |title=He's a Member of Congress. The Kremlin Likes Him So Much It Gave Him a Code Name. |website=The New York Times |date=November 21, 2017 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/us/politics/dana-rohrabacher-putin-trump-kremlin-under-fire.html |access-date=February 16, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=November 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171121185252/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/us/politics/dana-rohrabacher-putin-trump-kremlin-under-fire.html |url-status=live }}

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File:Larry and Kirk Elder accept Congressional Gold Medal on behalf of Staff Sgt. Randolph Elder.jpg and Kirk Elder accept Congressional Gold Medal on behalf of Staff Sgt. Randolph Elder]]

In an interview with Fox Business Channel on August 24, 2018, Rohrabacher attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions because Sessions had refused to fire Robert Mueller and shut down the Russia collusion investigation. He said: "'The fact that Jeff Sessions has not quit is a disloyalty to this president and to the country, the fact is, if he disagrees with what the president wants him to do, he should resign'".{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-rohrabacher-sessions-20180824-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |title=Rohrabacher says Sessions should resign if he won't bend to Trump's will|access-date=August 25, 2018|archive-date=August 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180825033832/http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-rohrabacher-sessions-20180824-story.html|url-status=live}}

In February 2020, Rohrabacher told Yahoo News that his goal during his 2017 meeting with Julian Assange was to find evidence for a widely debunked conspiracy theory that WikiLeaks' real source was not Russian intelligence agents for the DNC emails but former DNC staffer Seth Rich. Stephanie Grisham, a White House spokesperson for President Trump, stated that Trump barely knew Rohrabacher and had not spoken with Rohrabacher "'on this subject or almost any subject'".{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-assange/trump-offered-to-pardon-assange-if-he-denied-russia-helped-leak-democrats-emails-lawyer-idUSKBN20D2A2 |title=Trump offered to pardon Assange if he denied Russia helped leak Democrats' emails: lawyer |agency=Reuters |date=February 19, 2020 |access-date=March 11, 2020 |archive-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200220012112/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-assange/trump-offered-to-pardon-assange-if-he-denied-russia-helped-leak-democrats-emails-lawyer-idUSKBN20D2A2 |url-status=live}}

On February 19, 2020, Edward Fitzgerald, Julian Assange's attorney, asserted at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London that Rohrabacher had been sent on behalf of President Trump in August 2017 to offer Assange a pardon from Trump if Assange could release material to show that Russian intelligence was not involved in the 2016 United States election interference.

In 2006, Rohrabacher chaired the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the U.S. House Committee on International Relations, which investigated whether the Oklahoma City bombers had assistance from foreign sources; the committee determined there was no conclusive evidence of a foreign connection.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/24/AR2006122400571.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |first=John |last=Solomon |title=Panel Faults FBI in Okla. Bombing Follow-Up |date=2006-12-25 |access-date=August 26, 2017 |archive-date=December 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171229112203/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/24/AR2006122400571.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news|last=Rohrabacher|first=Dana|author-link=Dana Rohrabacher|author2=Phaedra Dugan|title=The Oklahoma City Bombing: Was There A Foreign Connection?|publisher=Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee|url=http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/OKC_ForeignConnection.pdf|access-date=March 25, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090324214032/http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/OKC_ForeignConnection.pdf|archive-date=March 24, 2009}} In the 113th Congress, Rohrabacher was chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats.

Speaking about Islam, he said during a hearing in April 2013, "I hope we all work together against a religion that will motivate people to murder children and other threats to us as a civilization."{{cite web|last=Brown|first=Hayes|title=GOP Congressman Says Islam Will 'Motivate People To Murder Children'|url=http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/04/26/1928321/rohrabacher-boston-islam/|website=ThinkProgress|access-date=December 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207015028/http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/04/26/1928321/rohrabacher-boston-islam/|archive-date=December 7, 2013|url-status=dead}}

In the wake of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, Rohrabacher put out a press release stating that he felt "outrage" and a "renewed commitment to defeat and destroy the radical Islamic movement that fosters such mayhem." He stressed that Americans must "be sure not to label all Muslims as terrorist murderers." Rohrabacher met Seddique Mateen, the father of the shooter, in 2014 during routine meetings with constituents. He called Mateen an "estranged individual."{{cite news|last1=Berkowitz|first1=Bonnie|last2=Cai|first2=Weiyi|last3=Lu|first3=Denise|last4=Gamio|first4=Lazaro|title=Everything lawmakers said (and didn't say) after the Orlando mass shooting|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/how-lawmakers-responded-to-the-orlando-mass-shooting/|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=December 31, 2017|archive-date=June 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141106/https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/how-lawmakers-responded-to-the-orlando-mass-shooting/|url-status=live}}

In a statement to clarify his position, Rohrabacher wrote that he opposes "the use of force against unarmed civilians no matter who is the victim or who is doing the killing" but he is also against "Iran's vicious Mullah monarchy" and "when it comes to Sunni terrorists or Shiite terrorists, I prefer them to target each other rather than any other victims, especially innocent civilians and Americans." He added that it will "require support for those proud Iranians who want to win their freedom and heritage from Mullahs and are willing to fight for it. That does not include Isis, but it may include a lot of Iranians who see blowing up Khomeini's mausoleum as an expression of freedom from the yolk [sic] of Islamic terror."{{cite web|title=Terrorist Attack: Clarification of My Position|url=http://www.rohrabacher.com/news/terrorist-attack-clarification-of-my-position|publisher=rohrabacher.com|date=June 12, 2017|access-date=June 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170616215855/http://www.rohrabacher.com/news/terrorist-attack-clarification-of-my-position|archive-date=June 16, 2017|url-status=dead}}

On April 17, 2007, during a House hearing on trans-Atlantic relations, Rohrabacher defended the Bush administration's program of extraordinary rendition. He said that the unfair treatment of one innocent suspect is an acceptable "unfortunate consequence" of holding others who would otherwise be free to commit terror acts. After he received boos and groans from the gallery, Rohrabacher responded, "Well, I hope it's your families, I hope it's your families that suffer the consequences," and "I hope it's your family members that die." Rohrabacher was subsequently interrupted by protesters wearing orange jumpsuits who were removed from the gallery. For his comment that imprisoning and torturing one innocent person was a fair price to pay for locking up 50 terrorists who would "go out and plant a bomb and kill 20,000 people", on April 25 Rohrabacher was named Countdown with Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World".{{cite news|title=Congressman Dana Rohrabacher Personifies Why Many Dislike America and Its Policies|author=Ann Wright|url=http://www.truth-out.org/article/ann-wright-rep-rohrabacher-typifies-why-many-dislike-america|newspaper=truthout|date=April 23, 2007|access-date=February 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615203430/http://www.truth-out.org/article/ann-wright-rep-rohrabacher-typifies-why-many-dislike-america|archive-date=2010-06-15|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/24/rohrabacher-terrorists/|title=Rep. Rohrabacher: 'I Hope It's Your Families That Suffer' From A Terrorist Attack|website=ThinkProgress|access-date=June 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070425002320/http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/24/rohrabacher-terrorists/|archive-date=April 25, 2007|url-status=dead}}

Rohrabacher's interest in Afghanistan extends back at least to the late 1980s, before his time in office, when he entered the country in the company of Afghan mujahideen fighters who were fighting Soviet occupation forces. Reportedly, these fighters "actually engaged Soviet troops in combat near the city of Jalalabad during the two months Rohrabacher was with them."{{cite news |title=U.S. Lawmaker Questions Approaches To Pakistan, Afghanistan |author=Ron Synovitz |date=December 7, 2007 |publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/1079238.html |access-date=August 22, 2017 |archive-date=August 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822182300/https://www.rferl.org/a/1079238.html |url-status=live }} In the years after the Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989), Rohrabacher said his "passion" was to bring back the country's exiled king, Muhammad Zahir Shah.{{cite news|title=Dana Rohrabacher's War|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/04/dana-rohrabacher-afghanistan-war/|work=Mother Jones|first=Daniel|last=Schulman|date=2010|access-date=April 24, 2023|archive-date=April 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404140502/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/04/dana-rohrabacher-afghanistan-war/|url-status=live}}

In 2003, Rohrabacher defended the new Afghan constitution against those who saw in it mainly empowerment of warlords, saying:

{{blockquote|I've heard a lot of negative posturing about ... these people who happened to have been the guys who sided with the United States ... Dostam, Atta, Khan ... these were the people who defeated the Taliban ... Just keep that in mind if you're an American. They came to help us defeat people who slaughtered our own people [September 11, 2001]. And I'm grateful for that. And I'm not about to label them in these pejorative terms [as warlords], especially when the Taliban are still on the border. ... I would admonish [you] not to go so quickly in getting rid of people who helped us defeat the Taliban.Quoted in {{cite web |title=The New Afghan Constitution: A Step Backwards for Democracy |author=James Ingalls |date=March 10, 2004 |url=http://www.fpif.org/articles/the_new_afghan_constitution_a_step_backwards_for_democracy |access-date=2011-10-02 |archive-date=April 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402201131/http://www.fpif.org/articles/the_new_afghan_constitution_a_step_backwards_for_democracy |url-status=live }}}}

Rohrabacher has since become a proponent of withdrawing from Afghanistan. He protested against the troop build-up in Afghanistan by President Obama, saying "If the Taliban is going is be defeated, it's got to be by the Afghan people themselves, not by sending more U.S. troops, which could actually be counterproductive."{{cite magazine |magazine = The New Republic |author = Michael Crowley |title = Dana Rohrabacher, Unlikely Afghanistan Dove |date = October 1, 2009 |url = http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-plank/dana-rohrabacher-washingtons-most-surprising-afghanistan-dove |access-date = 2011-10-02 |archive-date = June 1, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110601075539/http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-plank/dana-rohrabacher-washingtons-most-surprising-afghanistan-dove |url-status = live }} When Congressman Jim McGovern offered an amendment in 2011 requiring the Pentagon to draw up an exit plan from Afghanistan, Rohrabacher was just one of six Republicans to sign on. Rohrabacher voted for McGovern's Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, requiring an exit plan from Afghanistan. The bill failed by a 204–215 margin.{{Cite web |url=http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll373.xml |title=Archived copy |access-date=June 4, 2011 |archive-date=June 1, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110601231534/http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll373.xml |url-status=dead }}

Rohrabacher was against former President Obama's gradual drawdown of troops, instead supporting a full withdrawal. Saying "If we're going to leave, we should leave." Rohrabacher has said that "The centralized system of government foisted upon the Afghan people is not going to hold after we leave." And "So let's quit prolonging the agony and inevitable. Karzai's regime is corrupt and non representative of Afghanistan's tribal culture. This failed strategy is not worth one more drop of American blood. Under the current strategy, our military presence alienates more Afghans that it pacifies. So if you're going to pull the plug, then we need to get the hell out now."{{cite web|url=https://rohrabacher.house.gov/|title=Congressman Dana Rohrabacher|publisher=Congressman Dana Rohrabacher|access-date=January 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190102040634/https://rohrabacher.house.gov/|archive-date=January 2, 2019|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} Rohrabacher has repeatedly raised high-level concerns in the US Congress and Washington, D.C., about the significant corruption in Afghanistan, including the Kabul Bank scandal, where hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayers' dollars allegedly disappeared in a short period of time at the apparent hands of close Karzai family members, including brothers Mahmoud Karzai (a.k.a. Mahmood Karzai) and Ahmed Wali Karzai. Rohrabacher worked to bring attention to the systemic corruption in the Karzai government and cut U.S. taxpayers' funding for these wasteful projects and programs, involving corruption within the Hamid Karzai government.

In April 2012, CNN reported that "A top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs committee was asked by the State Department not to go to Afghanistan because President Hamid Karzai objected to the visit. ... Dana Rohrabacher, R-California, told Security Clearance he was readying to travel with five other Republicans from Dubai to Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, when the State Department requested he stay behind."{{cite news |url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/23/republican-congressman-asked-to-stay-out-of-afghanistan/ |publisher=CNN |title=Clinton, Panetta ask congressman to stay out of Afghanistan |date=2012-04-23 |access-date=April 23, 2012 |archive-date=April 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425062818/http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/23/republican-congressman-asked-to-stay-out-of-afghanistan/ |url-status=dead }}

File:U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher speaking at the 2016 Young Americans for Liberty California State Convention.jpg California State Convention]]

Rohrabacher was opposed to the involvement of American ground troops in the Yugoslav Wars. He advocated for the direct bombing of the military on Yugoslav soil, criticizing the ineffectiveness of western forces against the Bosnian Serbs. (NATO was limited to small fixed attacks, as these Serbs penetrated UN safe areas and attacked Bosniak forces.) Rohrabacher said they "should bomb Serbia's military infrastructure, in Serbia – get that, in Serbia – rather than dropping a couple of duds on tents, which only proves the West's gutlessness, and emboldens Serbian cutthroats."{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hE3oIMB6aj8C&q=rohrabacher%20bomb%20serbs.%20military&pg=PA58|title=Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia at peace and at war: selected writings, 1983–2007|author=Sabrina P. Ramet|year=2008|publisher=LIT Verlag Münster|isbn=978-3-03735-912-9|page=58|access-date=May 4, 2011|archive-date=April 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424232111/https://books.google.com/books?id=hE3oIMB6aj8C&q=rohrabacher%20bomb%20serbs.%20military&pg=PA58|url-status=live}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XB83xFA-tQ4C&q=rohrabacher%20bomb%20serbs&pg=PA658|title=Serbien und Montenegro: Raum und Bevölkerung, Geschichte, Sprache und Literatur, Kultur, Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Recht|author1=Walter Lukan|author2=Ljubinka Trgovcevic|author3=Dragan Vukcevic|year=2006|publisher=LIT Verlag Münster|isbn=3-8258-9539-4|page=658|access-date=May 3, 2011|archive-date=April 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424232111/https://books.google.com/books?id=XB83xFA-tQ4C&q=rohrabacher%20bomb%20serbs&pg=PA658|url-status=live}} Rohrabacher considered the events in Bosnia to constitute genocide.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GGgjAAAAMAAJ&q=rohrabacher+genocide|title=The Future of U.S. Foreign Policy: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session|author=United States|year=1993|publisher=U.S. G.P.O.|isbn=0-16-041063-0|page=290|access-date=May 3, 2011|archive-date=April 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424232111/https://books.google.com/books?id=GGgjAAAAMAAJ&q=rohrabacher+genocide|url-status=live}} In 1995, Rohrabacher personally visited Sarajevo in Bosnia, criticizing the devastation Serb forces inflicted on the city, saying "This is a loss to all mankind, not just to the people of Sarajevo." He also encountered vagabond children asking for money.{{cite news|title=Rohrabacher Diplomacy Misses Its Mark : Balkans: Children encountered in ruins give O.C. congressman glimpse of resources needed to rebuild Bosnia.|agency=Associated Press|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-24-mn-49634-story.html|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=September 24, 1995|access-date=May 4, 2011|archive-date=July 15, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120715013129/http://articles.latimes.com/1995-09-24/news/mn-49634_1_dana-rohrabacher|url-status=live}}

In 2001, the leader of the Albanian American Civic League ethnic lobby group, Joseph J. DioGuardi, praised Rohrabacher for his support to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), a militia that was once labeled by Bill Clinton's special envoy to the Balkans Robert Gelbard as a terrorist organization,{{cite news |last1=Shenon |first1=Philip |title=U.S. Says It Might Consider Attacking Serbs |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/13/world/us-says-it-might-consider-attacking-serbs.html |work=The New York Times |date=March 13, 1998 |access-date=September 15, 2019 |archive-date=July 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701202334/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/13/world/us-says-it-might-consider-attacking-serbs.html |url-status=live }} saying "He was the first member of Congress to insist that the United States arm the Kosova Liberation Army, and one of the few members who to this day publicly supports the independence of Kosova."{{cite news|title=Rohrabacher Shills for the KLA.(Rep Dana Rohrabacher and the Kosovo Liberation Army)(Brief Article)|author=The New American|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-79789123|newspaper=The New American|date=May 4, 2001|access-date=January 7, 2011|archive-date=April 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424232116/https://www.gale.com/databases/questia|url-status=live}} Also in 2001, Rohrabacher gave a speech in support of American equipping the KLA with weaponry, comparing it to French support of America in the Revolutionary War, saying "Based on our own experience, the Kosova Liberation Army should have been armed. ... If the U.S. had armed the KLA in 1998, we would not be where we are today. The 'freedom fighters' would have secured their freedom and Kosova would be independent."{{cite news|title=Rohrabacher Shills for the KLA.|author=The New American|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Rohrabacher+Shills+for+the+KLA-a079789123|newspaper=The New American|date=September 24, 2001|access-date=May 4, 2011|archive-date=October 23, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023230809/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Rohrabacher+Shills+for+the+KLA-a079789123|url-status=live}}

After a reconnaissance flight over the Spratly Islands in 1998, Rohrabacher said, "We can't ignore this bullying by the Communist Chinese in the Spratlys. The presence of the Chinese military troops...is not only a concern of the Philippines. It is also a concern of the U.S. and other democratic countries in the world."{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-15-mn-54172-story.html|title=Spratly Spat Heats Up Over Chinese 'Bullying'|first=David|last=Lamb|date=December 15, 1998|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=February 18, 2020|archive-date=April 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424232115/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-15-mn-54172-story.html|url-status=live}}

In July 1999, Rohrabacher led the House floor in opposition to legislation normalizing trade ties between the United States and China. The following year, as the House weighed another China trade bill, Rohrabacher said the trade bill was a giveaway to a select number of American billionaires and the Beijing regime, adding that President Bill Clinton could call "communist China 'our strategic partner' until his face turns blue, but it won't make them any less red."{{cite news|url=https://articles.latimes.com/2000/may/07/news/mn-27471/2|title=GOP Split Over China Trade Bill|first=Nick|last=Anderson|date=May 7, 2000|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=August 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124131731/http://articles.latimes.com/2000/may/07/news/mn-27471/2|archive-date=November 24, 2015|url-status=dead}}

In 2011 interviews, Rohrabacher described the Chinese government under the leadership of Hu Jintao as "a gangster regime that murders its own people" and described the Chinese government as Nazis.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/20/china-hu-jintao-us-congress|title=Chinese president Hu Jintao given frosty reception on Capitol Hill|date=January 20, 2011|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=November 17, 2018|archive-date=November 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117193331/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/20/china-hu-jintao-us-congress|url-status=live}}

In December 2016, after President-elect Trump had a phone call with President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen, Rohrabacher said the call "showed the dictators in Beijing that he's not a pushover" and that China "has had an enormously aggressive foreign policy".{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/dana-rohrabacher-trump-taiwan-232188|title=Rohrabacher: Trump's Taiwan call shows China he's not a pushover|date=December 5, 2016|publisher=Politico|access-date=November 17, 2018|archive-date=November 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117193446/https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/dana-rohrabacher-trump-taiwan-232188|url-status=live}}

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In 2012 Rohrabacher stated,

{{blockquote|The CCP and its state security machine uses a wide range of repression techniques including, not only limited to, censorship, beatings, home imprisonment, forced labor camps, those labor camps called the Laogai of course. And the most ghoulish manifestation of this gangsterism is the forced harvesting of organs of the political prisoners and religious followers that it arrests, particularly of the Chinese religious movement known as the Falun Gong.}}

and

{{blockquote|to rip open the body of someone who is simply involved in a religious or personal or political idea that is contrary to the wishes of the ruling elite, to rip a body open of someone like that especially if that person's religious or political beliefs are pacifistic and not a physical threat to the regime, this is about the most monstrous crime that I can conceive of.[http://archives.republicans.foreignaffairs.house.gov/112/75859.pdf "Organ Harvesting of Religious and Political Dissidents by the Chinese Communist Party"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160907020421/http://archives.republicans.foreignaffairs.house.gov/112/75859.pdf |date=2016-09-07 }}, Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, United States House of Representatives, September 12, 2012}}

Rohrabacher voted in support of the Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against Iraq in 2002,{{cite web|url=http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2002/roll455.xml|title=Final Vote Results For Roll Call 455|publisher=U.S. House of Representatives|access-date=April 7, 2014|archive-date=January 15, 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040115043607/http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2002/roll455.xml|url-status=live}} a position that he later said was "a mistake".{{cite web|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/dana-rohrabacher-afghanistan-war|title=Dana Rohrabacher's War|work=Mother Jones|access-date=June 22, 2015|archive-date=June 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619085252/http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/dana-rohrabacher-afghanistan-war|url-status=live}}

In August 2012, Rohrabacher noted on his official website that he had written a letter addressed to the U.S. State Department, noting his support of U.S. sponsorship of separatist movements in Iran. This elicited criticism from the Iranian-American community, which included challenging Rohrabacher's understanding of the historical background alluded to in his letter to the Department of State.{{Cite web |date=27 August 2012 |title=Congressman Dana Rohrabacher Embarrasses Himself By Calling for a Separatist Movement in Iran Based on a Flawed Historical Understanding |url=http://iranianfacebook.com/2012/08/27/congressman-dana-rohrabacher-embarrasses-himself-by-calling-for-a-separatist-movement-in-iran-based-on-a-flawed-historical-understaning/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918064700/http://iranianfacebook.com/2012/08/27/congressman-dana-rohrabacher-embarrasses-himself-by-calling-for-a-separatist-movement-in-iran-based-on-a-flawed-historical-understaning/ |archive-date=18 September 2012 |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=iranianfacebook.com}}

In June 2017, a day after an ISIL attack in Tehran, during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Rohrabacher stated: "Isn't it a good thing for us to have the United States finally backing up Sunnis who will attack Hezbollah and the Shiite threat to us, isn't that a good thing?" This comment was strongly criticized by the National Iranian American Council, which wrote, "Rohrabacher has a long history of bizarre and offensive statements on Iran, but his callousness toward the Iranian victims of ISIS terror might be his most callous and extreme thus far."{{Cite news|url=https://www.niacouncil.org/rohrabacher-tehran-terror-attacks-isnt-good-thing/|title=Rohrabacher on Tehran Terror Attacks: "Isn't That a Good Thing?"|date=June 7, 2017|publisher=National Iranian American Council|access-date=June 10, 2017|archive-date=June 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170610013544/https://www.niacouncil.org/rohrabacher-tehran-terror-attacks-isnt-good-thing/|url-status=live}}

Rohrabacher supported removing the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) from the United States State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations; it was included on the list from 1997 to 2012.{{citation|url=https://theintercept.com/2015/02/26/long-march-yellow/|title=Long March of the Yellow Jackets: How a One-Time Terrorist Group Prevailed on Capitol Hill|publisher=The Intercept|author=Ali Gharib, Eli Clifton|date=26 February 2015|access-date=March 30, 2018|archive-date=March 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180331140458/https://theintercept.com/2015/02/26/long-march-yellow/|url-status=live}}

In May 2011, in the wake of Osama Bin Laden's death, Rohrabacher introduced a bill to stop aid to Pakistan, stating that members of the government and of Pakistan's security force, the ISI, were either sheltering Bin Laden or completely incompetent.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}} "We can no longer afford this foolishness. ... The time has come for us to stop subsidizing those who actively oppose us. Pakistan has shown itself not to be America's ally." Rohrabacher also demanded the return of the US helicopter that crashed in the operation to kill Bin Laden, stating "If this is not done immediately, it is probable, given Pakistan's history, that our technology has already found its way into the hands of the Communist Chinese military that is buying, building, and stealing the necessary military technology to challenge the United States."

In June 2017, while speaking to Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Tina Kaidanow, Rohrabacher said, "We need to go on the record here, in this part of our government, to say that we're not going to be providing weapons systems to Pakistan that we're afraid are going to shoot down our own people. And we know they're engaged in terrorism."{{cite news|url=https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2017/06/15/us-lawmakers-skeptical-of-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-pakistan-lebanon/|title=US lawmakers skeptical of arms sales to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Lebanon|first=Joe|last=Gould|date=June 15, 2017|publisher=defensenews.com|access-date=November 17, 2018|archive-date=April 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424232113/https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2017/06/15/us-lawmakers-skeptical-of-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-pakistan-lebanon/|url-status=live}}

In 2007, Rohrabacher supported Mohiuddin Ahmed, a detainee in the U.S., who was said to be involved in an attempted coup in Bangladesh, during which several people were murdered. He was convicted of the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/6-killers-bangabandhu-no-progress-bringing-them-back-1448734|title=6 Killers of Bangabandhu: No progress in bringing them back|date=2017-08-15|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2017-10-13|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013081303/http://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/6-killers-bangabandhu-no-progress-bringing-them-back-1448734|archive-date=2017-10-13|url-status=dead}} the first President of Bangladesh.{{Cite news|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-man-who-allegedly-murdered-the-president-of-bangladesh-is-safe-in-canada/|title=The Man Who Allegedly Murdered the President of Bangladesh Is Safe in Canada|date=2013-05-29|work=Vice|access-date=2017-10-13|language=en-ca|archive-date=October 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013071837/https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/wdb45b/the-man-who-allegedly-murdered-the-president-of-bangladesh-is-safe-in-canada|url-status=live}} Bangladesh's extradition request was halted as Rohrabacher voiced concern about his legal rights, saying that he should be sent somewhere with no death penalty. His support was applauded by both Amnesty International and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.{{cite web|url=http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2007/01/c8181.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120904002412/http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2007/01/c8181.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 4, 2012|title=Amnesty International and Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops Call Upon Canada to Grant Safe Haven for Man About to Face Death|publisher=newswire.ca|access-date=June 22, 2015}}{{cite news |author=Ashley Surdin |date=Mar 28, 2007 |title=Deportation to Bangladesh fought; A Los Angeles man faces execution for his role in the South Asian nation's 1975 military coup, in which the country's president was killed. |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/1245137841.html?dids=1245137841:1245137841&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+28%2C+2007&author=Ashley+Surdin&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Deportation+to+Bangladesh+fought%3B+A+Los+Angeles+man+faces+execution+for+his+role+in+the+South+Asian+nation's+1975+military+coup%2C+in+which+the+country's+president+was+killed.&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120725044413/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/1245137841.html?dids=1245137841%3A1245137841&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS%3AFT&type=current&date=Mar+28%2C+2007&author=Ashley+Surdin&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Deportation+to+Bangladesh+fought%3B+A+Los+Angeles+man+faces+execution+for+his+role+in+the+South+Asian+nation%27s+1975+military+coup%2C+in+which+the+country%27s+president+was+killed.&pqatl=google |archive-date=July 25, 2012 |access-date=February 17, 2011 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}[https://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=But+time+is+running+out.+Ahmed+was+to+have+left+the+country+Monday+night%2C+but+Rep.+Dana+Rohrabacher+%28R-Huntington+Beach%29+called+Homeland+Security+Secretary+Michael+Chertoff%E2%80%99s+office+and+requested+a+delay+%22And+because+of+that%2C+Dana+felt+as+though+there+would+be+no+harm+in+trying+to+buy+some+time+for+his+legal+counsel+to+find+a+country%22+where+he+would+not+be+put+to+death.&oe=UTF-8&scoring=a] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424232114/https://news.google.com/home?as_drrb=a&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en|date=April 24, 2023}} [https://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22Amnesty+International+and+our+State+Department+has+questioned+the+integrity+of+the+Bangladeshi+judicial+system%2C%22+said+Tara+Setmayer%2C+a+spokeswoman+for+Rohrabacher&btnG=Search+Archives&oe=UTF-8&scoring=a] [https://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22And+because+of+that%2C+Dana+felt+as+though+there+would+be+no+harm+in+trying+to+buy+some+time+for+his+legal+counsel+to+find+a+country%22+where+he+would+not+be+put+to+death.&btnG=Search+Archives&oe=UTF-8&scoring=a] [https://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22Given+the+circumstances%2C+he+said+he%E2%80%99d+be+willing+to+place+a+phone+call+or+two+to+buy+some+time+and+figure+things+out%2C%22+she+said.&btnG=Search+Archives&oe=UTF-8&scoring=a] [http://www.docstrangelove.com/2007/04/03/dana-rohrabachers-hypocrisy-of-terror/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710142137/http://www.docstrangelove.com/2007/04/03/dana-rohrabachers-hypocrisy-of-terror/|date=July 10, 2011}} Mohiuddin Ahmed was found guilty of being a participant in the assassinations and was executed on January 28, 2010.{{cite news |last=Ahmed |first=Anis |date=January 27, 2010 |title=Bangladesh Hangs Killers of Independence Leader Mujib |newspaper=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60Q67320100127 |access-date=July 28, 2018 |archive-date=December 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201225004044/https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60Q67320100127 |url-status=live }}{{cite magazine |author=Charlie Gillis |date=February 15, 2011 |title=The assassin among us – Nur Chowdhury faces execution for killing Bangladesh's president. That's why he's safe in Canada. |url=http://www.macleans.ca/2011/02/15/the-assassin-among-us-2/ |magazine=Maclean's |access-date=February 3, 2021 |archive-date=March 5, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305201146/http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/02/15/the-assassin-among-us-2/ |url-status=live }}

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After President-elect Donald Trump answered a congratulatory phone call from democratically elected President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen on December 2, 2016,[https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-spoke-with-taiwan-president-tsai-ing-wen-1480718423 Trump Spoke With Taiwan President in Break With Decades of U.S. Policy: Leaders 'noted close' economic, political and security ties, Trump transition team said] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809155544/https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-spoke-with-taiwan-president-tsai-ing-wen-1480718423 |date=August 9, 2020 }}, The Wall Street Journal, 2016-12-2[http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/trump-phone-call-taiwan-president-major-breakthrough-article-1.2896742 President-elect Donald Trump's phone call to Taiwan's leader is a major breakthrough for U.S. relations with the nation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200826011644/https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/trump-phone-call-taiwan-president-major-breakthrough-article-1.2896742 |date=August 26, 2020 }}, New York Daily News, 2016-12-2[https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/why-trump-was-right-to-talk-with-taiwans-president Why Trump was right to talk with Taiwan's president], Fox News, 2016-12-4[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-trump-taiwan-call-china-20161205-story.html Trump's Taiwan call wasn't a mistake. It was brilliant.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415140205/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-trump-taiwan-call-china-20161205-story.html |date=April 15, 2019 }}, Chicago Tribune, 2016-12-5 Rohrabacher said Trump's phone call with Taiwan's president was "terrific" because of the diplomatic warning it sent to China. "He showed the dictators in Beijing that he's not a pushover." He emphasized, "China has had an enormously aggressive foreign policy and by him actually going to Taiwan, he's showing the people in Beijing that they cannot have this aggressive foreign policy and expect to be treated just the same by an American president."[http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/dana-rohrabacher-trump-taiwan-232188 Rohrabacher: Trump's Taiwan call shows China he's not a pushover] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117193446/https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/dana-rohrabacher-trump-taiwan-232188 |date=November 17, 2018 }}, Politico, 2016-12-5

Rohrabacher gave a "qualified defense" of the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014.Elias Isquith, March 25, 2014, Salon magazine, [http://www.salon.com/2014/03/25/gop_rep_dana_rohrabacher_half_defends_russias_annexation_of_crimea/ GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher half-defends Russia's annexation of Crimea: The California congressman isn't saying it was right of Russia to seize the former Ukrainian territory, but ...] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802041437/http://www.salon.com/2014/03/25/gop_rep_dana_rohrabacher_half_defends_russias_annexation_of_crimea/ |date=August 2, 2017 }}, Retrieved August 1, 2017, "...{{nbsp}}Rohrabacher went off-script for a moment and offered a qualified defense of Russia's annexation of Crimea{{nbsp}}..." On March 6, 2014, he was one of 23 members of the House of Representatives to vote against a $1 billion loan guarantee to support the new government of Ukraine.{{cite news|last=Simon|first=Richard|title=Dana Rohrabacher on Russia-Ukraine crisis: 'Putin is not Satan'|url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-dana-rohrabacher-ukraine-putin-20140314,0,1857686.story#axzz2wNymU526|access-date=March 19, 2014|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=March 14, 2014|archive-date=March 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318221501/http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-dana-rohrabacher-ukraine-putin-20140314,0,1857686.story#axzz2wNymU526|url-status=live}} On March 11, 2014, Rohrabacher voted "present", the only member to do so, on a resolution condemning Russian military actions in Ukraine; the resolution passed 402-7.{{cite web |title=Roll Call 117 - Bill Number: H. Res. 499 |url=https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2014117 |website=Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives |date=March 11, 2014 |access-date=5 May 2023}} Commenting on the issue, he stated, "Starting with our own American Revolution, groups of people have declared themselves, rightfully, to be under a different government or a government of their choosing. People forget that's what our Declaration of Independence is all about." He also said, "The sanctions are an abomination of hypocrisy. This is ridiculous: What we were doing with the violence and military action we took to secure the Kosovars' right to self-determination was far more destructive and had far more loss of life than what Putin's done trying to ensure the people of Crimea are not cut off from what they would choose as their destiny with Russia."{{cite news|last=Nelson|first=Steven|title=Crimea Policy an 'Abomination of Hypocrisy,' Says GOP Congressman|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/03/18/crimea-policy-an-abomination-of-hypocrisy-says-gop-congressman|access-date=March 19, 2014|newspaper=U.S. News & World Report|date=March 18, 2014|archive-date=March 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318231712/http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/03/18/crimea-policy-an-abomination-of-hypocrisy-says-gop-congressman|url-status=live}}

During a US Congressional delegation's visit to Uzbekistan in February 2013, Rohrabacher made several controversial statements. The chief among those statements was that the United States should treat Uzbekistan like Saudi Arabia by disregarding the former's human rights abuses in achieving America's national interests, particularly in selling armaments and drones to Uzbekistan.{{cite news |first=Sunggi |last=Yangilanish |date=1 March 2013 |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/uzbek/uzbekistan/2013/03/130301_cy_uzbek_us_drone.shtml |script-title=uz:АҚШ Ўзбекистонга дрон учоқлари етказиб беради |language=uz |title=US supplies drones to Uzbekistan |work=BBC News |access-date=June 22, 2015 |archive-date=March 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130302124440/http://www.bbc.co.uk/uzbek/uzbekistan/2013/03/130301_cy_uzbek_us_drone.shtml |url-status=live }}

In 2017, in an interview for an Albanian TV channel Vizion Plus Rohrabacher suggested that Macedonia "is not a country" and that the "Kosovars and Albanians from Macedonia should be part of Kosovo and the rest of Macedonia should be part of Bulgaria or any other country to which they believe they are related", which provoked a response from the Macedonian foreign ministry which accused him of inflaming "nationalistic rhetoric".{{cite news|last=Embury-Dennis|first=Tom|title=Republic of Macedonia furious after senior US Republican says it 'is not a country'|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/macedonia-not-a-country-senior-us-republican-congressman-dana-rohrabacher-a7569666.html|access-date=February 9, 2016|newspaper=The Independent|date=February 19, 2017|archive-date=February 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170208212746/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/macedonia-not-a-country-senior-us-republican-congressman-dana-rohrabacher-a7569666.html|url-status=live}}

In the wake of the clashes at the Turkish Ambassador's Residence in May 2017, Rohrabacher called for Donald Trump to never invite Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan again to the United States, and to bar Americans from purchasing Turkish government debt.{{Cite news|url=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lawmakers-push-trump-to-punish-erdogan-over-embassy-violence/article/2624165#!|title=Lawmakers push Trump to punish Erdogan over embassy violence|last=Gehrke|first=Joel|work=The Washington Examiner|access-date=2017-05-26|language=en|archive-date=May 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170527102415/http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lawmakers-push-trump-to-punish-erdogan-over-embassy-violence/article/2624165#!|url-status=live}}

In August 2017, Rohrabacher proposed amending the Department of Defense budget whereby the United States would establish military ties with Eritrea.{{Cite news | author=Salem Solomon | url=https://www.voanews.com/a/congressman-pushes-eritrea-us-military-partnership/3972539.html | title=Congressman Calls for US Military Partnership with Eritrea | publisher=Voice of America | date=4 August 2017 | access-date=11 August 2017 | archive-date=August 12, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812021917/https://www.voanews.com/a/congressman-pushes-eritrea-us-military-partnership/3972539.html | url-status=live }} Rohrabacher suggested that the two countries should cooperate in fighting the War on Terror, curbing Iranian influence in the Yemeni Civil War, and securing the Red Sea region. At the time of Rohrabacher's proposal, Eritrea was subject to international sanctions due to its alleged support of Al-Shabaab in Somalia, and to U.S. sanctions against the Eritrean Navy following an alleged shipment of North Korean military hardware to Eritrea.{{Cite news | author=Conor Gaffey | url=http://www.newsweek.com/us-military-al-shabab-dana-rohrabacher-eritrea-647542 | title=U.S. Should Fight Terror With Eritrea, Accused of Sponsoring Al-Qaeda Affiliate, GOP Congressman Says | work=Newsweek | date=7 August 2017 | access-date=11 August 2017 | archive-date=August 12, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812004508/http://www.newsweek.com/us-military-al-shabab-dana-rohrabacher-eritrea-647542 | url-status=live }}

In August 2017, Rohrabacher attended a meeting in London with Julian Assange organized and attended by right-wing political activist Charles C. Johnson. Rohrabacher said that the discussion was about the possibility of a presidential pardon in exchange for Assange supplying information on the theft of emails from the Democratic National Committee, which were published by WikiLeaks before the 2016 presidential election.{{cite news |author=Christine Mai-Duc |date=August 17, 2017 |url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-right-wing-blogger-charles-c-johnson-1502992726-htmlstory.html |title=Rohrabacher on meeting with WikiLeaks' Assange: We talked about 'what might be necessary to get him out.' |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=February 18, 2020 |archive-date=November 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116224852/http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-right-wing-blogger-charles-c-johnson-1502992726-htmlstory.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |author=Nico Hines |date=February 2, 2020 |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-offered-assange-pardon-if-he-covered-up-russian-hack-court-hears |title=Trump Offered Assange Pardon if He Covered Up Russian Hack, WikiLeaks Founder's Lawyer Claims |newspaper=Daily Beast |access-date=February 19, 2020 |archive-date=February 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219175049/https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-offered-assange-pardon-if-he-covered-up-russian-hack-court-hears |url-status=live }} In October 2017, Rohrabacher and Johnson met with Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) to discuss Assange supplying information about the source of leaked emails. However, Assange responded to news accounts of the meeting, tweeting, "WikiLeaks never has and never will reveal a source. Offers have been made to me—not the other way around. I do not speak to the public through third parties."{{cite news | url=https://www.rollcall.com/2017/10/12/assange-upends-rohrabacher-denies-he-will-reveal-dnc-emails-source/ | title=Assange Upends Rohrabacher, Denies He Will Reveal DNC Emails Source | work=Roll Call | date=12 October 2017 | access-date=20 February 2020 | author=Connolly, Griffin | archive-date=February 20, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220201025/https://www.rollcall.com/2017/10/12/assange-upends-rohrabacher-denies-he-will-reveal-dnc-emails-source/ | url-status=live }}

In March 2005, Rohrabacher introduced HR 1061, the American Property Claims Against Ethiopia Act, which would "prohibit United States assistance to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia until the Ethiopian government returns all property of United States citizens". The bill was introduced by Rohrabacher at the behest of Gebremedhin Berhane, a former Eritrean national and friend of the Rohrabacher family, after his business was expropriated by the Ethiopian government.

On March 7, 2006, Rohrabacher introduced HR 4895, an amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, "to limit the provision of the United States military assistance and the sale, transfer, or licensing of United States military equipment or technology to Ethiopia".{{cite news|url=http://www.eritreadaily.net/News0306/article0306261.htm|title=Eritrea, Ethiopia, Abramoff, and Rohrabacher|work=Eritrea Daily|date=2006-03-26|access-date=2008-04-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704070429/http://www.eritreadaily.net/News0306/article0306261.htm|archive-date=2008-07-04|url-status=dead}}

During an appearance on MSNBC's The Ed Show, Rohrabacher accused Barack Obama of allowing violence in Iran to get out of hand because he did not speak forcefully enough against the country's leadership. He also said that Gorbachev tore down the Berlin Wall because Reagan told him to ("Tear down this wall").[https://www.votesmart.org/speech_detail.php?sc_id=476422 MSNBC "The Ed Show" Interview – Transcript] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424232117/https://justfacts.votesmart.org/public-statements/ |date=April 24, 2023 }} 2009-06-23

In early 2010, he went to Honduras to commend the election of the new president. His entourage included a group of Californian property investors and businessmen, a dealer in rare coins, and CEOs from San Diego biofuels corporation (which is headed by a family friend).{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/21/wikileaks-summary-key-points-day-22 |location=London |work=The Guardian |title=WikiLeaks embassy cables, day 22: summary of today's key points |date=2010-12-21 |access-date=December 14, 2016 |archive-date=March 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310083300/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/21/wikileaks-summary-key-points-day-22 |url-status=live }}

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Rohrabacher voted to repeal Obamacare, disputed evidence of man-made global warming,{{cite news|url= http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46101.html|title= Ralph Hall to chair Science panel|newspaper= Politico|date= 2010-12-07|access-date= 2012-10-24|archive-date= May 10, 2012|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120510040403/http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46101.html|url-status= live}} was a staunch opponent of illegal immigration,{{cite news|url=http://www.scpr.org/blogs/politics/2013/02/14/12556/golden-west-student-says-congressman-rohrabacher-d/|title=Did OC Rep. Dana Rohrabacher make an immigrant student cry?|author=Kitty Felde|publisher=Southern California Public Radio|access-date=June 22, 2015|archive-date=June 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622211125/http://www.scpr.org/blogs/politics/2013/02/14/12556/golden-west-student-says-congressman-rohrabacher-d/|url-status=live}} and favored the legalization of cannabis.

Rohrabacher had drawn public criticism for some of his positions. His controversial statements included the conspiracy theory, first promoted by the politically-biased conspiracy theory website InfoWars, that Democrats secretly organized the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville to provoke violence by the alt-right to discredit President Trump.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/critics-fear-dana-rohrabacher-creating-wikileaks-back-channel-to-trump/article/2632649 |title=Critics fear Dana Rohrabacher creating WikiLeaks back channel to Trump |author=Steven Nelson |date=September 23, 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Examiner |access-date=September 23, 2017 |quote=...plan to brief President Trump on a meeting with WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange that he says touched on information disproving Russia's role hacking Democratic emails. |archive-date=September 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924093107/https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/critics-fear-dana-rohrabacher-creating-wikileaks-back-channel-to-trump/article/2632649 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-rep-dana-rohrabacher-blames-democrats-1505426333-htmlstory.html |title=Citing conspiracy theory, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher blames Democrats for Charlottesville violence: 'It was a setup' |author=Sarah D. Wire |date=September 14, 2017 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=September 23, 2017 |quote=The conspiracy theory that a Democrat organized the white supremacist rally that led to the death of one person was stoked by right-wing provocateur Alex Jones of InfoWars and had been debunked by nonpartisan fact-checking site Politifact. |archive-date=September 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922213216/http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-rep-dana-rohrabacher-blames-democrats-1505426333-htmlstory.html |url-status=live }}{{cite magazine |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/04/dana-rohrabacher-afghanistan-war |title=Dana Rohrabacher's War; In the '80s he took up arms with Afghanistan's mujahideen. Now the California Republican is fighting against Obama's surge. |author=Daniel Schulman |magazine=Mother Jones |access-date=September 23, 2017 |quote=Following a 2001 meeting with the Taliban's foreign minister in Qatar, US critics accused Rohrabacher of breaching the Logan Act, which prohibits American citizens from making unofficial diplomatic overtures. |archive-date=September 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922061419/http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/04/dana-rohrabacher-afghanistan-war/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/rohrabacher-sees-his-out-of-mainstream-russia-views-taking-hold-under-trump/2016/12/17/46476c86-c3c9-11e6-9578-0054287507db_story.html |title=Rohrabacher sees his out-of-mainstream Russia views taking hold under Trump |author=Elise Viebeck |date=December 17, 2016 |newspaper=The Washington Post PowerPost blog |access-date=September 23, 2017 |quote=Last week, Rohrabacher praised the president-elect's choice of ExxonMobil chief Rex Tillerson to be secretary of state, describing it as a victory in his lonely and oft-criticized struggle to relax Washington's posture toward Russia. |archive-date=September 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924045717/https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/rohrabacher-sees-his-out-of-mainstream-russia-views-taking-hold-under-trump/2016/12/17/46476c86-c3c9-11e6-9578-0054287507db_story.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.nbc.com/late-night-with-seth-meyers/video/the-check-in-who-the-hell-is-dana-rohrabacher/3588626 |title=The Check In: Who the Hell is Dana Rohrabacher? |author=Late Night with Seth Meyers |date=September 20, 2017 |work=NBC |access-date=September 23, 2017 |author-link=Late Night with Seth Meyers |archive-date=September 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923003245/https://www.nbc.com/late-night-with-seth-meyers/video/the-check-in-who-the-hell-is-dana-rohrabacher/3588626 |url-status=live }}

He had been a staunch supporter of Donald Trump.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-me-ln-rohrabacher-kavanaugh-accusation-20180920-story.html|title=Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, facing a tough reelection fight, ridicules sex assault accusation against Kavanaugh|last=Mozingo|first=Joe|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2018-09-23|archive-date=November 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191130230109/https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-me-ln-rohrabacher-kavanaugh-accusation-20180920-story.html|url-status=live}}

In 1990, Rohrabacher opposed the National Endowment of the Arts and joined Mel Hancock in demanding its abolition.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-04-05-ca-1105-story.html|title=Embattled NEA Will Survive, Lawmaker Says : Arts: Although Orange County Rep. Dana Rohrabacher demands abolition of the National Endowment for the Arts, most officials back the government grant program.|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=February 18, 2020|archive-date=October 20, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151020134516/http://articles.latimes.com/1990-04-05/entertainment/ca-1105_1_dana-rohrabacher|url-status=live}} In a February letter to other members of Congress, Rohrabacher sent a photograph by artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/04/21/nea-funded-art-exhibit-protested/1c9a2564-15b0-453d-9fc2-1b7162d1de81/|title=NEA-Funded Art Exhibit Protested|date=April 21, 1990|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=November 14, 2018|archive-date=November 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122092251/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/04/21/nea-funded-art-exhibit-protested/1c9a2564-15b0-453d-9fc2-1b7162d1de81/|url-status=live}}

In April, liberal constitutional rights group People for the American Way announced its intent to launch a newspaper advert campaign against Rohrabacher. Western vice president of the organization Michael Hudson stated, "'Americans overwhelmingly reject censorship of the arts and support the NEA'". Rohrabacher welcomed the announcement, stating that his constituents "don't want federal dollars to go to sacrilegious or obscene art'" and that it would help voters to understand the issue. Explaining his position, Rohrabacher stated that he did not believe "'anyone should be prevented from seeing what they want to see or painting what they want to paint...on their own time and their own dime. But if you get a government subsidy, that's another question'".{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-04-20-me-1509-story.html|title=Group Plans Anti-Rohrabacher Ads|first=Robert W.|last=Stewart|date=April 20, 1990|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=February 18, 2020|archive-date=May 28, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528231545/http://articles.latimes.com/1990-04-20/local/me-1509_1_dana-rohrabacher|url-status=live}}

In October, the House passed a bill to reauthorize funds for the NEA with the directive that the organization could not fund obscene art. Rohrabacher introduced an amendment that would include specific guidelines on the kind of art projects that could not be funded, such as works that were sexually explicit or denigrated the American flag or religions; the amendment was rejected by a vote of 249-175. Rohrabacher stated his amendment was supposed to ensure that the federal government was ""not subsidizing obscenity, child pornography, attacks on religion, desecration of the American flag or any other of the outrages we have seen in the past'". By the time the House passed the bill, Rohrabacher had become known as " the House's most outspoken critic of the NEA".{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/10/11/House-passes-arts-funding-compromise/1858655617600/|title=House passes arts-funding compromise|date=October 10, 1999|publisher=UPI|access-date=November 14, 2018|archive-date=November 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114224138/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/10/11/House-passes-arts-funding-compromise/1858655617600/|url-status=live}}

In October 1991, Rohrabacher wrote a letter to the civil rights division of the Education Department after seven Filipino students complained to the media that they were denied admission to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Rohrabacher requested the department conduct a federal civil rights investigation on what seemed to be "a quota based upon race that illegally discriminates against Filipino-Americans and possibly applicants of other races". UCSD vice chancellor for undergraduate affairs Joseph Watson refuted the letter, dismissing Rohrabacher as "wrong when he says that 40% of admissions are reserved for certain races". He stated that the school ranks all applicants using a grade-based formula. Watson charged Rohrabacher with fanning hysteria over discrimination: "The Rohrabacher approach is to play to public fears that something fishy is going on. We don't want anyone to feel we're not giving everyone a fair and equitable review that can stand up to any scrutiny."{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-10-me-205-story.html|title=Congressman Accuses UCSD of Bias : Quotas: Rep. Dana Rohrabacher seeks an inquiry into allegations that the school's admissions procedures discriminate against ethnic groups such as Filipinos. A UCSD official denies the charges.|date=October 10, 1991|first=David|last=Smollar|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=February 18, 2020|archive-date=October 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018035815/http://articles.latimes.com/1991-10-10/local/me-205_1_dana-rohrabacher|url-status=live}}

{{see also|Impeachment of Bill Clinton}}

In November 1997, Rohrabacher was one of eighteen Republicans in the House to co-sponsor a resolution by Bob Barr that sought to launch an impeachment inquiry against President Bill Clinton.{{cite web |last1=Pace |first1=David |title=17 in House seek probe to impeach president |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/498562556 |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=The Record |agency=The Associated Press |access-date=4 March 2021 |language=en |date=6 Nov 1997 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=April 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413151956/http://www.newspapers.com/image/498562556/ |url-status=live }} The resolution did not specify any charges or allegations.{{cite web |last1=Hutcheson |first1=Ron |title=Some House Republicans can't wait for elections |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/197738955 |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=Asheville Citizen-Times |agency=Knight-Rider Newspapers |language=en |url-access=subscription |date=17 Nov 1997 |access-date=March 6, 2021 |archive-date=April 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413151941/http://www.newspapers.com/image/197738955/ |url-status=live }} This was an early effort to impeach Clinton, predating the eruption of the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal. The eruption of that scandal would ultimately lead to a more serious effort to impeach Clinton in 1998.{{cite web |last1=Barkham |first1=Patrick |title=Clinton impeachment timeline |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/1998/nov/18/clinton.usa |website=The Guardian |access-date=6 March 2021 |language=en |date=18 November 1998 |archive-date=February 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228133624/http://www.theguardian.com/world/1998/nov/18/clinton.usa |url-status=live }} On October 8, 1998, Rohrabacher voted in favor of legislation that was passed to open an impeachment inquiry.{{cite web |title=Roll Call 498 Roll Call 498, Bill Number: H. Res. 581, 105th Congress, 2nd Session |url=https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/1998498 |website=clerk.house.gov |publisher=Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives |access-date=1 March 2021 |language=en |date=8 October 1998 |archive-date=April 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413150937/https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/1998498 |url-status=live }} On December 19, 1998, Rohrabacher voted in favor of all four proposed articles of impeachment against Clinton (only two of which received the majority of votes needed to be adopted).{{cite web |title=Roll Call 546 Roll Call 546, Bill Number: H. Res. 611, 105th Congress, 2nd Session |url=https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/1998546 |website=Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives |access-date=6 March 2021 |language=en |date=19 December 1998 |archive-date=November 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125214436/https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/1998546 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Roll Call 545 Roll Call 545, Bill Number: H. Res. 611, 105th Congress, 2nd Session |url=https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/1998545 |website=Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives |access-date=6 March 2021 |language=en |date=19 December 1998 |archive-date=November 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125214517/https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/1998545 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Roll Call 544 Roll Call 544, Bill Number: H. Res. 611, 105th Congress, 2nd Session |url=https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/1998544 |website=Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives |access-date=6 March 2021 |language=en |date=19 December 1998 |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126161740/https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/1998544 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last1=Washington |first1=U. S. Capitol Room H154 |last2=p:225-7000 |first2=DC 20515-6601 |title=Roll Call 543 Roll Call 543, Bill Number: H. Res. 611, 105th Congress, 2nd Session |url=https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/1998543 |website=Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives |access-date=6 March 2021 |language=en |date=19 December 1998 |archive-date=March 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303091343/https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/1998543 |url-status=live }}

In 2018, Sacha Baron Cohen's television program Who Is America? premiered, showing Rohrabacher supporting a hoax "kinderguardians program" which supported training toddlers with firearms.Matthew Michaels, July 15, 2018, Business Insider, [http://www.businessinsider.com/sacha-baron-cohen-who-is-america-arm-preschoolers-guns-2018-7 In video from Sacha Baron Cohen's new show, GOP members of congress support arming preschoolers with guns] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405060712/https://www.businessinsider.com/sacha-baron-cohen-who-is-america-arm-preschoolers-guns-2018-7 |date=April 5, 2023 }}, Retrieved July 15, 2018 Rohrabacher claims that he never spoke to Cohen, that he was taken out of context, and that he spoke, "broadly of making sure young people could get training in self-defense".{{Cite news|url=https://www.ocregister.com/2018/07/16/sacha-baron-cohen-spoof-was-fraud-rohrabacher-says-high-schoolers-not-toddlers-should-get-gun-training/|title=Sacha Baron Cohen spoof was 'fraud,' Rohrabacher says; high schoolers, not toddlers, should get gun training|date=2018-07-16|work=Orange County Register|access-date=2018-07-30|language=en-US|archive-date=July 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730080449/https://www.ocregister.com/2018/07/16/sacha-baron-cohen-spoof-was-fraud-rohrabacher-says-high-schoolers-not-toddlers-should-get-gun-training/|url-status=live}}

Rohrabacher doubts the scientific consensus that global warming is caused by humans. During a congressional hearing on climate change on February 8, 2007, Rohrabacher mused that previous warming cycles may have been caused by carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by "dinosaur flatulence": Politico and The New York Times reported that on May 25, 2011, Rohrabacher expressed further skepticism regarding the existence of man-made global warming and suggested that, if global warming is an issue, a possible solution could be clear-cutting rain forests, and replanting. These reports sparked strong criticism by some scientists, including Oliver Phillips, a geography professor at the University of Leeds. They noted the consensus that intact forests act as net absorbers of carbon, reducing global warming.{{cite news|url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55731.html|title=Do trees cause global warming?|work=Politico|date=May 25, 2011|access-date=2011-05-30|first=Darren|last=Samuelsohn|archive-date=May 29, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110529100128/http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55731.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/republicans-climate-solution-clearcut-the-rain-forest/|title=Republican's Climate Solution: Clear-Cut the Rain Forest|work=The New York Times|date=May 26, 2011|access-date=2011-05-30|first=John|last=Rudolf|archive-date=May 29, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110529153335/http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/republicans-climate-solution-clearcut-the-rain-forest/|url-status=live}}

Rohrabacher does not believe that global warming is a problem. At a town hall meeting with the Newport Mesa Tea Party in August 2013, Rohrabacher said "global warming is a total fraud" and part of a "game plan" by liberals to "create global government".{{cite news |title=Member of Congressional Science Committee: Global Warming a 'Fraud' to 'Create Global Government' Representative Dana Rohrabacher says global warming is a "fraud" to "create global government". |author-link=Lee Fang |first=Lee |last=Fang |date=August 10, 2013 |access-date=March 16, 2017 |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/science-committee-congressman-global-warming-fraud-create-global-government/ |magazine=The Nation |quote=Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), a senior member of the House Science Committee, used a portion of his time at a town hall this week to launch into a rant about global warming, which he described as a plot by liberals to "create global government to control our lives". |archive-date=March 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316211506/https://www.thenation.com/article/science-committee-congressman-global-warming-fraud-create-global-government/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |title=The GOP does the climate change dance |url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-column-climate-change-republicans-20140511-column.html |author-link=Doyle McManus |first=Doyle |last=McManus |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=March 16, 2017 |date=May 10, 2014 |quote=Some current GOP members of Congress still deny that the problem exists, including Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa), who has called global warming 'a total fraud' designed by 'liberals who ... want to create global government'. |archive-date=March 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317054202/http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-column-climate-change-republicans-20140511-column.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |date=August 12, 2013 |title=Dana Rohrabacher, GOP House Science Committee Member: 'Global Warming Is A Total Fraud' |first=Nick |last=Wing |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/12/dana-rohrabacher-global-warming_n_3743390.html |access-date=March 16, 2017 |work=The Huffington Post |quote=Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), a longtime member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, recently brushed aside concern that the wildfires currently scorching across his state and causing millions of dollars of damage have anything to do with climate change. In fact, he told constituents at a town hall that 'global warming is a total fraud,' employed by liberals to 'create global government'. |archive-date=March 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316205400/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/12/dana-rohrabacher-global-warming_n_3743390.html |url-status=live }}

On May 4, 2017, Rohrabacher voted in favor of repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and passing the American Health Care Act.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/ahca-house-vote/|title=How the House voted to pass the GOP health-care bill|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-04|archive-date=May 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504203121/https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/ahca-house-vote/|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/04/health-care-vote-puts-pressure-dozens-vulnerable-gop-reps/101297824/|title=Health care vote puts pressure on dozens of vulnerable GOP reps|work=USA Today|access-date=2017-05-04|language=en|archive-date=May 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170505063452/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/04/health-care-vote-puts-pressure-dozens-vulnerable-gop-reps/101297824/|url-status=live}} During his 2018 re-election campaign, Rohrabacher pledged to protect protections for individuals with preexisting conditions.{{Cite news|date=2018-10-09|title=Republicans Fought Obamacare. Now They're Campaigning to Save It|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-09/republicans-fought-obamacare-now-they-re-campaigning-to-save-it|access-date=2018-10-09|website=Bloomberg.com|archive-date=November 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127232818/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-09/republicans-fought-obamacare-now-they-re-campaigning-to-save-it|url-status=live}} Rohrabacher voted for his party's Obamacare replacement bill that included state waivers from rules that prohibit charging higher prices to people with pre-existing conditions.

Rohrabacher was an advocate for the state of California's Proposition 187, which prohibited illegal immigrants from acquiring government services. In 2004, he sponsored an amendment that would have prohibited federal reimbursement of hospital-provided emergency care and certain transportation services to undocumented aliens unless the hospital provided information about the aliens' citizenship, immigration status, financial data, and employer to the Secretary of Homeland Security. Aliens who were in the country illegally would receive reimbursement only after they were deported. The proposed bill was defeated, 331–88.{{cite web |title=H.R.3722 |publisher=Library of Congress |url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.03722: |access-date=2008-06-18 |date=May 18, 2004 |archive-date=November 11, 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041111024513/http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.03722: |url-status=dead }}

In 2005, Rohrabacher opined that the Republican Party was split on the issue of immigration: "There are those of us who identify with the national wing and patriotic wing of the party who have always been adamant on the illegal immigration issues. And, on the other side, you have those people who believe in the business and global marketplace concept. So, you have a party with two different views on one of the major issues of the day."{{cite news|url=https://www.ocregister.com/2005/12/16/house-immigration-bill-focuses-on-security/|title=House immigration bill focuses on security|first=Dena|last=Buris|date=December 12, 2005|publisher=ocregister.com|access-date=November 11, 2018|archive-date=November 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111133619/https://www.ocregister.com/2005/12/16/house-immigration-bill-focuses-on-security/|url-status=live}}

In early 2008, Rohrabacher endorsed Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential primary, citing his positions on stemming illegal immigration and criticizing John McCain. About McCain, he said: "He's been the enemy of those of us who have stemmed the flow of illegals into our country, whereas Romney has made some very tough commitments."{{cite news |last=Caesar |first=Chris |url=http://www.dailypilot.com/articles/2008/01/23/politics/dpt-endorsement23.txt|title=Rohrabacher supports Mitt Romney for president|publisher=Daily Pilot|date=2008-01-23|access-date=2008-04-15}}

In 2011, Rohrabacher proposed the bill H.R. 787 known as the "No Social Security for Illegal Immigrants Act of 2011". The bill: "Amends title II of the Social Security Act to exclude from creditable wages and self-employment income any wages earned for services by aliens performed in the United States, and self-employment income derived from a trade or business conducted in the United States, while the alien was not authorized to be so employed or to perform a function or service in such a trade or business."{{cite web |url=http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h787/show |title=H.R.787: No Social Security for Illegal Immigrants Act of 2011 – U.S. Congress |publisher=OpenCongress |access-date=June 22, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729191127/http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h787/show |archive-date=July 29, 2013}}

In 2013, an 18-year-old student visited Rohrabacher's office to discuss immigration reform. At some point their conversation became disagreeable, and the student said the congressman yelled at her: "I hate illegals!" He also allegedly threatened to deport her family. Rohrabacher's spokesperson has disputed both statements, averring that it was actually the student who started the confrontation by yelling at the spokesperson and telling her to "butt out".

In September 2017, Rohrabacher supported the Trump administration's rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, saying that those "in Congress must work to prevent such cynical loopholes from being created again by executive fiat" despite their possible empathy for the immigrants.{{cite news|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Dreamers-denied-Trump-administration-12173747.php|title=Trump ending DACA immigration program; Opponents slam 'heartless' move on Dreamers|first=Hamed|last=Aleaziz|date=September 5, 2017|publisher=sfgate.com|access-date=November 11, 2018|archive-date=November 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111133943/https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Dreamers-denied-Trump-administration-12173747.php|url-status=live}}

The organization NumbersUSA has given Rep. Rohrabacher an A+ rating in accordance to his stance on illegal immigration.{{cite web|url=https://www.numberusa.com/content/my/congress/124/gradescoresheet/|title=Representative Dana Rohrabacher, Report Card – NumbersUSA – For Lower Immigration Levels|publisher=www.numbersusa.com}}{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Rohrabacher has drawn controversy over his views on LGBT rights. He opposed same-sex marriage and endorsed Proposition 8, the ballot initiative in 2008 that would have prohibited same-sex marriage in California, during a debate at Orange Coast College, stating he "would suggest not changing the definition of marriage in our society to make a small number of people feel more comfortable".{{cite news|url=https://www.ocregister.com/2008/10/21/46th-congressional-candidates-debate-global-warming-and-bailout/|title=46th congressional candidates debate global warming and bailout|newspaper=Orange County Register|access-date=2018-05-26|date=2008-10-21|archive-date=April 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404155649/https://www.ocregister.com/2008/10/21/46th-congressional-candidates-debate-global-warming-and-bailout/|url-status=live}}

Rohrabacher voted in favor of the Federal Marriage Amendment in both 2004 and 2006, a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would have defined marriage as between a man and a woman and forbade states from recognizing or legalizing same-sex marriage.{{cite web|url=http://www.ontheissues.org/CA/Dana_Rohrabacher.htm|title=Dana Rohrabacher on the Issues|last=OnTheIssues.org|publisher=www.ontheissues.org|access-date=June 16, 2017|archive-date=June 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170610061821/http://ontheissues.org/CA/Dana_Rohrabacher.htm|url-status=live}} After the Supreme Court issued its decision in Hollingsworth v. Perry in 2013, that legalized same-sex marriage in California, Rohrabacher criticized the decision, stating that the decision was "not based on the merits of the issue but on a technicality".{{cite news|url=http://www.ocregister.com/2013/06/26/voices-on-gay-marriage-rulings/|title=Voices on gay-marriage rulings|date=June 26, 2013|newspaper=Orange County Register|access-date=September 13, 2017|archive-date=September 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914034613/http://www.ocregister.com/2013/06/26/voices-on-gay-marriage-rulings/|url-status=live}} However, Rohrabacher has appeared to have endorsed the idea of leaving marriage to religious institutions only, stating on Twitter that churches should be solely responsible for conducting marriages but that the government should only recognize them.{{cite tweet |user=DanaRohrabacher |number=388739977871257600 |date=October 11, 2013 |title=@Diusgh @jlop117 Only so much space per tweet. Marriage should be issue 4 churches.Partnerships can be treated as contracts. Sex not issue }}{{cite tweet |user=DanaRohrabacher |number=516026644528893952 |date=September 27, 2014 |title=@mustikhan time 4 Baloch to be free and back on USA time to get gov out of role of defining marriage, leave it up to churches}}

In May 2018, Rohrabacher provoked severe criticism after telling a meeting of the Orange County Association of Realtors that homeowners "should be able to make a decision not to sell their home to someone (if) they don't agree with their lifestyle." Though the statement did not explicitly refer to LGBT people, it was widely interpreted as such. LGBT groups denounced Rohrabacher for the remarks, and the National Association of Realtors, which had previously donated to Rohrabacher's re-election campaigns, condemned Rohrabacher, halted all of its financial support for him and repudiated its past donations to him. After Rohrabacher's constituents unseated him in favor of Harley Rouda, The Advocate praised the results and condemned Rohrabacher.{{cite news|last1=Collins|first1=Jeff|title=Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher says it's OK to not sell homes to gays; loses support of Realtors|url=https://www.ocregister.com/2018/05/24/dana-rohrabacher-says-its-ok-to-not-sell-homes-to-gays-loses-support-of-realtors/|access-date=May 24, 2018|archive-date=May 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525000248/https://www.ocregister.com/2018/05/24/dana-rohrabacher-says-its-ok-to-not-sell-homes-to-gays-loses-support-of-realtors/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.advocate.com/politics/2018/11/10/homophobe-dana-rohrabacher-loses-congressional-seat-harley-rouda|title=Homophobe Dana Rohrabacher Loses Congressional Seat to Harley Rouda|date=10 November 2018|publisher=The Advocate|access-date=3 January 2019|archive-date=November 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111101722/https://www.advocate.com/politics/2018/11/10/homophobe-dana-rohrabacher-loses-congressional-seat-harley-rouda|url-status=live}}

Despite criticism from the LGBT community later in his career, early in his political career, Rohrabacher supported a proposal by gays to move to a rural California county and take leadership roles. Rohrabacher's "California Libertarian Alliance endorsed the project. 'Your main resources are the freedom you offer plus the environment you are locating in,' Dana Rohrabacher, one of the libertarian group’s founders and later speechwriter to then-President Reagan, wrote in a letter to GLF. 'The economic goods are perfect for some kind of a combination ski gambling resort.'" {{cite news|last1=Algeo|first1=Matthew|title=Gaytopia:Fed up with the horrific discrimination and violence against his community, Don Jackson had a plan: turn a remote spot in Northern California into the world's first gay-majority county. Their ultimate obstacle would come from the least expected enemy.|url=https://medium.com/truly-adventurous/gaytopia-9d297f8d0d61/|access-date=January 26, 2021|archive-date=January 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127142520/https://medium.com/truly-adventurous/gaytopia-9d297f8d0d61|url-status=live}}

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Rohrabacher supported the legalization of cannabis for both medical and recreational purposes. He spoke against the policy of cannabis prohibition as early as May 2013, calling it a "colossal failure" in an op-ed penned for the Orange County Register.{{cite news|last1=Rohrabacher|first1=Dana|title=The colossal failure of marijuana prohibition|url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/marijuana-508206-federal-prohibition.html|access-date=January 22, 2017|work=Orange County Register|date=May 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607142718/http://www.ocregister.com/articles/marijuana-508206-federal-prohibition.html|archive-date=June 7, 2013|url-status=live}} He further outlined his views in a May 2014 op-ed in National Review, arguing that the prohibition of cannabis has incurred a number of undesirable costs upon free society, such as an increase in gang violence, soaring incarceration rates, unconstitutional seizure of private property through civil forfeiture, corruption and militarization of police forces, and negative impacts on minority communities and relationships with Latin-American countries.{{cite news|last1=Rohrabacher|first1=Dana|title=Let States Decide on Pot|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/379018/let-states-decide-pot-dana-rohrabacher|access-date=November 16, 2016|work=National Review|date=May 29, 2014|archive-date=November 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161117063825/http://www.nationalreview.com/article/379018/let-states-decide-pot-dana-rohrabacher|url-status=live}} Rohrabacher has called on fellow Republicans to reconsider their stance towards cannabis, citing core conservative principles such as limited government, individual liberty, respect for the Tenth Amendment, and respect for the doctor–patient relationship that Rohrabacher says lend support to loosening current laws.{{cite news|last1=Davis|first1=Aaron C.|title=GOP congressman: Republicans should embrace marijuana legalization|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/gop-congressman-republicans-should-embrace-marijuana-legalization/2014/11/14/49e20ad8-6b77-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html|access-date=November 16, 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=November 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161117144405/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/gop-congressman-republicans-should-embrace-marijuana-legalization/2014/11/14/49e20ad8-6b77-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html |archive-date=November 17, 2016 |url-status=live}} He also notes conservative leaders such as Milton Friedman, William F. Buckley, and Grover Norquist that have espoused similar drug policy views.{{cite press release|date=May 13, 2014|title=Rep. Rohrabacher: Get The Feds Off Marijuana Meds Enforcement|url=https://rohrabacher.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-rohrabacher-get-the-feds-off-marijuana-meds-enforcement|access-date=November 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109065345/https://rohrabacher.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-rohrabacher-get-the-feds-off-marijuana-meds-enforcement |archive-date=November 9, 2016 |url-status=dead}} In April 2016, Rohrabacher announced his endorsement of California's Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act.{{cite news|title=California's Adult Use Of Marijuana Act Endorsed By Longtime Congressman Dana Rohrabacher|url=http://www.yeson64.org/news/press-releases/californias-adult-use-of-marijuana-act-endorsed-by-longtime-congressman-dana-rohrabacher|access-date=November 16, 2016|publisher=Yes on 64|date=April 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116164542/http://www.yeson64.org/news/press-releases/californias-adult-use-of-marijuana-act-endorsed-by-longtime-congressman-dana-rohrabacher |archive-date=November 16, 2016 |url-status=dead}}

Rohrabacher is a strong proponent of states' rights when it comes to cannabis policy. He has introduced the Rohrabacher–Farr amendment for a number of years beginning in 2003, to prohibit the Justice Department from spending funds to interfere with the implementation of state medical cannabis laws.{{cite news|last1=Sullum|first1=Jacob|title=The Federal Ban on Medical Marijuana Was Not Lifted|url=http://reason.com/archives/2016/01/04/the-federal-ban-on-medical-marijuana-was|access-date=November 16, 2016|work=Reason|date=January 4, 2016|archive-date=November 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129110302/http://reason.com/archives/2016/01/04/the-federal-ban-on-medical-marijuana-was|url-status=live}} The amendment passed the House for the first time in May 2014,{{cite press release|date=October 26, 2016|title=Rohrabacher Urges Continuation of Medical Marijuana Amendment|url=https://rohrabacher.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rohrabacher-urges-continuation-of-medical-marijuana-amendment|access-date=November 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129210038/https://rohrabacher.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rohrabacher-urges-continuation-of-medical-marijuana-amendment |archive-date=November 29, 2016 |url-status=dead}} becoming law in December 2014 as part of an omnibus spending bill.{{cite press release|date=December 16, 2014|title=Rohrabacher, Farr Hail Medical Marijuana Amendment in Funding Bill|url=https://rohrabacher.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rohrabacher-farr-hail-medical-marijuana-amendment-in-funding-bill|access-date=November 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161209021923/https://rohrabacher.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rohrabacher-farr-hail-medical-marijuana-amendment-in-funding-bill |archive-date=December 9, 2016 |url-status=dead}}{{cite press release|date=June 4, 2015|title=Rohrabacher Hails Passage of Medical Marijuana Amendment|url=https://rohrabacher.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rohrabacher-hails-passage-of-medical-marijuana-amendment|access-date=November 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109031557/https://rohrabacher.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rohrabacher-hails-passage-of-medical-marijuana-amendment |archive-date=November 9, 2016 |url-status=dead}} Additional legislation that Rohrabacher has introduced includes the Respect State Marijuana Laws Act{{cite press release|date=April 12, 2013|title=Rep. Rohrabacher Introduces Bipartisan "Respect State Marijuana Laws Act of 2013"|url=https://rohrabacher.house.gov/press-release/rep-rohrabacher-introduces-bipartisan-respect-state-marijuana-laws-act-2013|access-date=November 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109101652/https://rohrabacher.house.gov/press-release/rep-rohrabacher-introduces-bipartisan-respect-state-marijuana-laws-act-2013 |archive-date=November 9, 2016 |url-status=dead}} and the Veterans Equal Access Act.{{cite press release|date=November 21, 2014|title=Rohrabacher: Allow VA Doctors to Prescribe Medical Marijuana|url=https://rohrabacher.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rohrabacher-allow-va-doctors-to-prescribe-medical-marijuana|access-date=November 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109032258/https://rohrabacher.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rohrabacher-allow-va-doctors-to-prescribe-medical-marijuana |archive-date=November 9, 2016 |url-status=dead}} Rohrabacher has called on the DEA / DOJ to remove cannabis from the list of Schedule I drugs.{{cite press release|date=August 11, 2016|title=Rohrabacher Condemns DEA Refusal to Reschedule Medical Marijuana|url=https://rohrabacher.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rohrabacher-condemns-dea-refusal-to-reschedule-medical-marijuana|access-date=November 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108204225/https://rohrabacher.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rohrabacher-condemns-dea-refusal-to-reschedule-medical-marijuana |archive-date=November 8, 2016 |url-status=dead}}{{cite press release|date=January 22, 2015|title=Rohrabacher praises Holder on seizures, urges removal of pot from Schedule I|url=https://rohrabacher.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rohrabacher-praises-holder-on-seizures-urges-removal-of-pot-from|access-date=November 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109030251/https://rohrabacher.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rohrabacher-praises-holder-on-seizures-urges-removal-of-pot-from |archive-date=November 9, 2016 |url-status=dead}} In February 2017, Rohrabacher co-founded the Congressional Cannabis Caucus – along with Reps. Don Young (R–AK), Jared Polis (D–CO), and Earl Blumenauer (D–OR) – to help advance policy change regarding cannabis at the federal level.{{cite news|last1=Margolin|first1=Madison|title=Cannabis Now Has Its Own Congressional Caucus|url=https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/cannabis-now-congressional-caucus|access-date=June 5, 2017|publisher=Leafly|date=February 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226094628/https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/cannabis-now-congressional-caucus|archive-date=February 26, 2017|url-status=dead}}

Rohrabacher was an opponent of the America Invents Act, a bill that is attempting to change the current Patent System. Rohrabacher opposes changing from a "first to invent system" to a "first to file system" saying it "hurts the little guy". Rohrabacher commented: "Make no mistake, 'first to file' weakens patent protection. It is likely to make vulnerable individual and small inventors, who don't have an army of lawyers on retainer. These 'little guys' have been the lifeblood of American progress and competitiveness for more than 200 years. Our system was designed to protect individual rights, and it has worked for all – not just the corporate elite." Rohrabacher went on to comment in a Politico op-ed: "We're told this is necessary to harmonize with Japanese and European patent law. But those systems were established by elitists and economic shoguns interested in corporate power, not individual rights."{{cite news|url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53564.html|title=Opinion: Patent reform hurts 'little guy' – Rep. Dana Rohrabacher|author=Dana Rohrabacher|work=Politico|access-date=June 22, 2015|archive-date=October 20, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020172001/http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53564.html|url-status=live}}

Rohrabacher was chairman of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics from 1997 to January 2005{{cite web |title=Biography – Past Accomplishments |publisher=Rohrabacher Congressional Webpage |url=http://rohrabacher.house.gov/Biography/ |access-date=2008-06-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080625212356/http://rohrabacher.house.gov/Biography/ |archive-date=2008-06-25}} and has been active on space-related issues. In 2000, Space.com described Rohrabacher as "a strident advocate for supremacy in space, a philosophy shaped along a winding road from libertarian activist to White House speech writer in the Reagan administration". In 2007, Rohrabacher introduced a bill that would direct NASA to develop a strategy "for deflecting and mitigating potentially hazardous near-Earth objects".{{cite news |last=Stein |first=Jeff |title=The End Might Be Nearer Than You Think |publisher=CQ Politics |date=2008-05-16 |url=http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=hsnews-000002877953 |access-date=2008-05-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080521112020/http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=hsnews-000002877953 |archive-date=2008-05-21 }} Rohrabacher has applauded the Apollo astronauts, calling them unofficial ambassadors. Rohrabacher stated "I applaud their efforts and accomplishments over the past fifty years. And I encourage all Americans to join with me in thanking them for their accomplishments and for the international role they have played in serving as unofficial Ambassadors to the world on our behalf."{{Cite web|url=http://rohrabacher.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=243037|title=Rohrabacher Congressional Webpage|access-date=2017-08-14|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110602051627/http://rohrabacher.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=243037|archive-date=2011-06-02}}

On July 18, 2017, Rohrabacher asked a panel of space experts testifying before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology if civilizations could have existed on Mars in the past. Kenneth Farley, a project scientist on NASA's Mars Rover 2020 Project, said: "I would say that is extremely unlikely."{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/07/19/nasa-wanted-to-talk-about-science-a-congressman-wanted-to-ask-about-martian-civilizations/|title=NASA wanted to talk about science. A congressman wanted to ask about Martian civilizations.|last=Selk|first=Avi|date=2017-07-19|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2017-08-14|archive-date=August 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811060655/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/07/19/nasa-wanted-to-talk-about-science-a-congressman-wanted-to-ask-about-martian-civilizations/|url-status=live}}

Rohrabacher voted against the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Despite efforts made by Republicans to change the bill to be more generous regarding cap deductions on new home mortgages, Rohrabacher remained staunch at voting nay on the bill, as the more than half of the new mortgages in his district are above the $750,000 cap.{{cite web|last1=Lynch|first1=Dennis|title=How the new tax bill could negatively affect LA homebuyers|url=https://therealdeal.com/la/2017/12/20/how-the-new-tax-bill-could-negatively-affect-la-homebuyers/|publisher=The Real Deal Los Angeles|access-date=December 20, 2017|date=December 20, 2017|archive-date=December 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222050902/https://therealdeal.com/la/2017/12/20/how-the-new-tax-bill-could-negatively-affect-la-homebuyers/|url-status=live}} He stated on his Facebook page that "Due to the pressure of several members like me, the bill was improved, but not enough for my constituents."{{cite news|last1=Wisckol|first1=Martin|title=All but two area Republicans vote for tax reform|url=https://www.ocregister.com/2017/12/19/all-but-two-area-republicans-vote-for-tax-reform/|newspaper=Orange County Register|access-date=December 20, 2017|date=December 20, 2017|archive-date=December 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222042701/https://www.ocregister.com/2017/12/19/all-but-two-area-republicans-vote-for-tax-reform/|url-status=live}}

{{See also|Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election}}

After leaving office, Rohrabacher participated in "Stop the Steal" rallies in support of Donald Trump. On January 6, 2021, Rohrabacher was filmed breaching a United States Capitol Police barricade during the January 6 United States Capitol attack, although he was not charged with an offense.{{cite news |last=Staggs |first=Brooke |date=June 14, 2021 |title=Dana Rohrabacher breached Capitol police barricades on Jan. 6 |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2021/06/14/dana-rohrabacher-breached-capitol-police-barricades-on-jan-6/ |work=Orange County Register |access-date=June 15, 2021 |archive-date=June 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625145646/https://www.ocregister.com/2021/06/14/dana-rohrabacher-breached-capitol-police-barricades-on-jan-6/ |url-status=dead }}

In May 2019, Rohrabacher announced his appointment to the advisory board of BudTrader.com, a company that provides cannabis-related advertising services.{{cite news |last1=Gangitano |first1=Alex |title=Former GOP Rep. Rohrabacher joins board of cannabis company |url=https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/446035-ex-congressman-rohrabacher-joins-board-of-cannabis-group/ |access-date=June 4, 2019 |work=The Hill |date=May 29, 2019 |archive-date=June 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190604210029/https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/446035-ex-congressman-rohrabacher-joins-board-of-cannabis-group |url-status=live }}

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Rohrabacher has been married to his wife, Rhonda Carmony, since 1997. In 2004, they became parents of triplets.{{cite news|url=http://www.ocregister.com/2013/11/18/five-things-to-know-about-dana-rohrabachers-reelection-campaign/|title=Five Things to Know About Dana Rohrabacher's Reelection Campaign|newspaper=Orange County Register|access-date=May 31, 2017|archive-date=May 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170523070922/http://www.ocregister.com/2013/11/18/five-things-to-know-about-dana-rohrabachers-reelection-campaign/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Gangitano|first1=Alex|title=The Triplet Caucus: Members Talk About Raising Kids in Threes|url=https://www.rollcall.com/news/hoh/triplet-caucus-members-talk-raising-kids-threes|access-date=February 16, 2018|newspaper=Roll Call|date=September 18, 2017|archive-date=February 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180217024049/https://www.rollcall.com/news/hoh/triplet-caucus-members-talk-raising-kids-threes|url-status=live}}

Rohrabacher is Protestant.{{cite web|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2022/12/PF_2023.01.03_religion-congress_REPORT.pdf|title=Faith on the Hill. The religious composition of the 118th Congress|access-date=5 April 2023|website=PEW Research Center|date=3 January 2023|author=Jeff Diamant|archive-date=March 16, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230316090407/https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2022/12/PF_2023.01.03_religion-congress_REPORT.pdf|url-status=live}} He was described by the Los Angeles Times as "an avid surfer".{{cite news|last=Reyes|first=David|title=More Beach Closed by Mystery Sewage|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-aug-26-me-3931-story.html|access-date=May 22, 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=August 26, 1999|author2=Haldane, David|archive-date=December 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224120811/http://articles.latimes.com/1999/aug/26/local/me-3931|url-status=live}}

Rohrabacher revealed in May 2016 that he uses a cannabis-infused topical rub to treat his arthritis pain, allowing him to sleep through the night. The product is legal under California state law, but remains a banned substance under federal law.{{cite news|last1=Ferner|first1=Matt|title=GOP Congressman Says He Uses Medical Marijuana To Ease Arthritis Pain|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-congressman-says-he-uses-medical-marijuana_us_5744bff2e4b055bb117084d8|access-date=November 16, 2016|work=The Huffington Post|date=May 24, 2016|archive-date=November 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116225407/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-congressman-says-he-uses-medical-marijuana_us_5744bff2e4b055bb117084d8|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Edwards|first1=Brooke|title=Rep. Dana Rohrabacher: I use medical marijuana for my arthritis|url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/-717105--.html|access-date=November 16, 2016|work=Orange County Register|date=May 25, 2016|archive-date=November 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116225814/http://www.ocregister.com/articles/-717105--.html|url-status=live}}

In December 2018, a month after losing his bid for re-election, Rohrabacher announced that he intended to move to Maine and to write film scripts.{{cite news |last1=Graham |first1=Jordan |title=Defeated Rep. Dana Rohrabacher moving to Maine after 30 years representing coastal Orange County |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2018/12/13/defeated-rep-dana-rohrabacher-moving-to-maine-after-30-years-representing-coastal-orange-county/ |work=Orange County Register |date=December 13, 2018 |access-date=January 8, 2019 |archive-date=January 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108200640/https://www.ocregister.com/2018/12/13/defeated-rep-dana-rohrabacher-moving-to-maine-after-30-years-representing-coastal-orange-county/ |url-status=live }}

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| candidate = Dana Rohrabacher (incumbent)

| votes = 149,818

| percentage = 52.5

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = California Democratic Party

| candidate = Debbie Cook

| votes = 122,891

| percentage = 43.1

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Green Party of California

| candidate = Thomas Lash

| votes = 8,257

| percentage = 2.9

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Libertarian Party of California

| candidate = Ernst Gasteiger

| votes = 4,311

| percentage = 1.5

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| votes = 285,277

| percentage = 100

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| percentage = 70.1

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| winner = California Republican Party

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| title = California's 46th congressional district election, 2010

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| candidate = Dana Rohrabacher (incumbent)

| votes = 139,822

| percentage = 62.3

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Ken Arnold

| votes = 84,940

| percentage = 37.7

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Jay Shah (write-in)

| votes = 20

| percentage = <0.1

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{{Election box total no change

| votes = 224,782

| percentage = 100

}}

{{Election box hold with party link no change

| winner = Republican Party (United States)

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| title = California's 48th congressional district election, 2012

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| candidate = Dana Rohrabacher (incumbent)

| votes = 73,302

| percentage = 66.3

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| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Ron Varasteh

| votes = 31,912

| percentage = 28.9

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = No party preference

| candidate = Alan Schlar

| votes = 5,355

| percentage = 4.8

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{{Election box total no change

| votes = 110,569

| percentage = 100

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| candidate = Dana Rohrabacher (incumbent)

| votes = 177,144

| percentage = 61.0

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Ron Varasteh

| votes = 113,358

| percentage = 39.0

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{{Election box total no change

| votes = 290,502

| percentage = 100

}}

{{Election box hold with party link no change

| winner = Republican Party (United States)

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{{Election box end}}

{{Election box open primary begin no change

| title = California's 48th congressional district election, 2014

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| candidate = Dana Rohrabacher (incumbent)

| votes = 52,431

| percentage = 56.1

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Suzanne Joyce Savary

| votes = 18,242

| percentage = 19.5

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| candidate = Wendy Brooks Leece

| votes = 11,082

| percentage = 11.9

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = David Burns

| votes = 6,142

| percentage = 6.6

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Robert John Banuelos

| votes = 5,591

| percentage = 6.0

}}

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| votes = 93,488

| percentage = 100

}}

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| candidate = Dana Rohrabacher (incumbent)

| votes = 112,082

| percentage = 64.1

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Suzanne Joyce Savary

| votes = 62,713

| percentage = 35.9

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{{Election box total no change

| votes = 174,795

| percentage = 100

}}

{{Election box hold with party link no change

| winner = Republican Party (United States)

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| title = {{ushr|California|48}} election, 2016

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| candidate = Dana Rohrabacher (incumbent)

| votes = 92,815

| percentage = 56.6

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Suzanne Savary

| votes = 47,395

| percentage = 28.9

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Robert John Banuelos

| votes = 23,867

| percentage = 14.5

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{{Election box total no change

| votes = 164,077

| percentage = 100

}}

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| candidate = Dana Rohrabacher (incumbent)

| votes = 178,701

| percentage = 58.5

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Suzanne Savary

| votes = 127,715

| percentage = 41.5

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{{Election box total no change

| votes = 306,416

| percentage = 100

}}

{{Election box hold with party link no change

| winner = Republican Party (United States)

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| candidate = Dana Rohrabacher (incumbent)

| votes = 52737

| percentage = 30.3

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Harley Rouda

| votes = 30099

| percentage = 17.3

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Hans Keirstead

| votes = 29974

| percentage = 17.2

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| candidate = Scott Baugh

| votes = 27514

| percentage = 15.8

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Omar Siddiqui

| votes = 8658

| percentage = 5.0

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| candidate = John Gabbard

| votes = 5664

| percentage = 3.3

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Rachel Payne (withdrawn)

| votes = 3598

| percentage = 2.1

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| candidate = Paul Martin

| votes = 2893

| percentage = 1.7

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| candidate = Shastina Sandman

| votes = 2762

| percentage = 1.6

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Michael Kotick (withdrawn)

| votes = 2606

| percentage = 1.5

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Laura Oatman (withdrawn)

| votes = 2412

| percentage = 1.4

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Deanie Schaarsmith

| votes = 1433

| percentage = 0.8

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

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| candidate = Tony Zarkades

| votes = 1281

| percentage = 0.7

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Libertarian Party of California

| candidate = Brandon Reiser

| votes = 964

| percentage = 0.6

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| candidate = Stelian Onufrei (withdrawn)

| votes = 739

| percentage = 0.4

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = No party preference (United States)

| candidate = Kevin Kensinger

| votes = 690

| percentage = 0.4

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{{Election box total no change

| votes = 174024

| percentage = 100

}}

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Harley Rouda

| votes = 157837

| percentage = 53.6

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| candidate = Dana Rohrabacher (incumbent)

| votes = 136899

| percentage = 46.4

}}

{{Election box total no change

| votes = 294736

| percentage = 100

}}

{{Election box gain with party link no change

| winner = Democratic Party (United States)

| loser = Republican Party (United States)

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