Honorable Dana Rohrabacher
U.S. Representative, California, Republican
Representative Rohrabacher, of the Forty-sixth District of California, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1988. He serves on the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. The following is excerpted from the April 6, 2011, House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing “Is America’s Overseas Broadcasting Undermining Our National Interest and Undermining the Fight Against Tyrannical Regimes?” I have called this hearing to investigate one of the greatest failures in recent American foreign policy to define and follow a strategic communications strategy. Today, I’d…