{"id":28173,"date":"2017-01-05T19:01:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T03:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=28173"},"modified":"2017-01-05T19:01:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T03:01:35","slug":"rep-dana-rohrabacher-goes-to-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/05\/rep-dana-rohrabacher-goes-to-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Goes to Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) has plans to bring a congressional delegation to Russia. Rohrabacher is quoted in a Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/wp\/2017\/01\/04\/gop-congressman-plans-russia-trip-to-work-with-the-duma\/\">article<\/a> by Robert Costa in the Washington Post as saying a purpose of the trip is to discuss with Russian officials \u201chow we can work with the Duma.\u201d The Duma is a legislative body of the Russian government.<\/p>\n<p>Rohrabacher, as chairman of the Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats Subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs Committee, has a significant role in the United States House of Representatives regarding US relations with Russia. In this position, Rohrabacher has on occasion forcefully made the case for easing tensions between the US and Russia. For example, in March of 2015, Rohrabacher, speaking during a meeting of the subcommittee concerning Ukraine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaulinstitute.org\/archives\/congress-alert\/2015\/march\/06\/rep-dana-rohrabacher-us-seeking-to-humiliate-and-defeat-russia-will-mean-more-ukraine-suffering\/\">criticized<\/a> the US government\u2019s effort \u201cto basically defeat and humiliate Russia.\u201d He argued that the US goal should instead be \u201cto do what is right by Ukraine and bring peace to Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Rohrabacher\u2019s influence in the House, though, should be understood in context. In introductory remarks at the Ukraine hearing at which Rohrabacher spoke out for peace and d\u00e9tente, Rep. Ed Royce (RCA), who is chairman of the full Foreign Affairs Committee, asserted the US government should take more aggressive actions in opposition to Russia in relation to Ukraine, calling US action so far \u201cquite tepid.\u201d And, last week, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) <a href=\"\/archives\/peace-and-prosperity\/2016\/december\/31\/five-minutes-five-issues-punishing-russia-israel-brouhaha-marijuana-delay-troops-suicides-torture-report\/\">cheered<\/a> and called \u201coverdue\u201d the announcement by President Barack Obama of punitive actions, including the expelling of 35 Russian diplomats from America, in response to purported Russian government actions including interfering with the 2016 US presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>For some interesting information regarding Rohrabacher and his foreign policy views read Justin Raimondo\u2019s December 5 article \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2016\/12\/04\/dana-rohrabacher-secretary-state\/\">Dana Rohrabacher for Secretary of State?<\/a>\u201d at antiwar.com.<\/p>\n<p>Rohrabacher was recently in the news as a possible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/romney-fading-rohrabacher-bolton-rising-for-state-as-consensus-package\/article\/2608799#.WENzRCBpbG4.twitter\">choice<\/a> for the Secretary of State position in a Donald Trump administration. Trump ended up choosing Exxon Mobil Corporation CEO Rex W. Tillerson.<\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>. Massie is a member of the Ron Paul Institute.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) has plans to bring a congressional delegation to Russia. Rohrabacher is quoted in a Wednesday article by Robert Costa in the Washington Post as saying a purpose of the trip is to discuss with Russian officials \u201chow we can work with the Duma.\u201d The Duma is a legislative body of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-28173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28175,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28173\/revisions\/28175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28173"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=28173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}