Word: dornan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...people who thought they were immune to recessions, the Republican white collar workers, have been caught. Bush will likely carry the county again, but if he doesn't get a 300,000-vote plurality here, there's no way he'll take California." And that, says Representative Robert Dornan, one of the county's five Congressmen, "is iffy at best, unless there is a measurable and perceived economic upturn...
...said that publicly, but he knows me, and when he said it to me privately, I couldn't believe it. So I hosted two gatherings for Clinton in the hope of getting Bush to focus." The only focus Thompson has noticed has been unwelcome. In Houston last Tuesday, Representative Dornan told me, "Thompson wants to play hardball, O.K. But she better watch out, or she may find her business hurt...
Congressman Robert Dornan, a California Republican, is avidly pushing a proposal he feels would benefit both the stricken Kuwaiti economy and the thousands of Vietnamese languishing in camps all over southeast Asia. "The Vietnamese refugees," wrote Dornan to the Emir of Kuwait, "are people in need of a country. Kuwait, on the other hand, is a country in need of / people." Dornan believes that Kuwait's labor pool should not be replenished by Palestinians and Yemenis who, he says, "betrayed their Arab brothers by cheering Saddam's invasion." Dornan, whose Orange County constituency has the largest concentration of Vietnamese...
...similar vein, Bob Dornan, a G.O.P. colleague from California, took a shot at CBS. He charged that "for Gunga Dan ((Rather)), the more radical the cause, the more airtime it receives." Taking aim at a different target, House minority whip Newt Gingrich last week blasted Speaker Tom Foley for appointing to the Intelligence Committee liberals "who don't believe in intelligence gathering...
...Police Corps is the brainchild of Adam Walinsky, a former top aide to Robert Kennedy. Its congressional sponsors run the ideological gamut. In the House the chief proponents are liberal Democrat John Lewis of Atlanta, who views the legislation as "vital" for his fellow blacks, and conservative Republican Robert Dornan of Orange County, Calif., who insists that "there is nothing partisan here because we're talking about survival...