[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 170 (Tuesday, October 31, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H11577-H11578]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  FURTHER TRIBUTE TO ROBERT K. DORNAN

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Fox of Pennsylvania). Under a previous 
order of the House, the gentleman from California [Mr. Hunter] is 
recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, I will be happy to yield to the gentleman 
from Texas, Sam Johnson, the famous fighter pilot.
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from 
California for yielding to me.
  They call the gentleman from California [Mr. Dornan] B-2 Bob. I think 
that he has been an armed services advocate for this Nation and has 
kept our forces strong, especially the Air Force's. I think that this 
is one case where we are not supposed to be going to Bosnia, and I 
would like to get on that subject again, if I can, for just a second, 
because that is a place where the President has offered 25,000 of our 
troops as a bargaining chip before there is ever any agreement, before 
the United States has ever been involved.
  Mr. Speaker, it has been pointed out earlier that NATO, as an 
organization for protection of NATO nations, which we are a part of, 
but I do not believe Bosnia is a NATO nation. I think that is right, is 
it not, Mr. Hunter?
  Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for asking, and no, it 
is not a member of NATO.
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Therefore, why are we there? I have asked 
the question, is this Nation really taking a good look at itself. Who 
are we, why are we there? Whose side are we on, and what are we going 
to do once we get there without a plan to get out. I think this 
President ought to start listening to this Congress and to the American 
people, and I know Bob Dornan feels the same way.

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  Mr. HUNTER. Well, I thank the gentleman. Bob Dornan is my candidate. 
I am endorsing my great seatmate and buddy just north of the San Diego 
County line, Bob Dornan. His motto is faith, family, and freedom. The 
gentleman from California [Mr. Dornan] has run under that banner for a 
long time.
  We just saw his effect as a conscience, one of the House consciences 
along with Henry Hyde and Chris Smith of the pro-life value and ethic 
in this Congress, how he has been such a leader there. He has a great 
family, and that faith, family, and freedom is something that always 
resonates, at least when I see Bob, because I think of his great 
family.
  Sally, I call her Sally Kay Dornan, it is really Sally Hansen Dornan, 
is a wonderful person. I know her very well, and she helps to preside 
over their five children, Robin Marie Griffin, Robert Kenneth, II, 
Teresa Anne Cobin, Mark Douglas and Kathleen Regina Penn, and they have 
eight grandchildren and I am going to name them, since we have them 
right here. Richard K. Cobin, Terry Cobin, Kevin Gary Griffin, Collin 
Robert Griffin, Anna Victoria Cobin, Erin Marie Griffin, Haley Olivia 
Dornan. Of course, Bob Dornan's uncle was the ``Tin Man'', Jack Haley, 
in the ``Wizard of Oz,'' so that is where Haley comes from, and of 
course rounding off with Robert K. Dornan, III.

  Let me tell you, if you go to Bob Dornan's house, you do not see any 
of what the national news media complains about as being a mean 
demeanor or tough or ill-willed, all of the tough stands that he takes 
when he sees real liberalism on the horizon. You see a grandfather who 
lives for those kids. You drive up to that big ex-hockey player's house 
out there in McLean and you will see Bob Dornan coming down, if it is 
in the wintertime, a bobsled run that would challenge what we have in 
the winter Olympics, and he may have a camera mounted on the front of 
his helmet and have four or five grandkids cuddled in his arms, or he 
may be throwing water balloons at them out of the top story of that 
house. Bob Dornan lives for his family.
  He has a great family. I can remember once watching the Larry King 
Show, a detractor sitting there and talking about taking on Bob Dornan 
in a race, and the phone rang and Larry King took it and it was Mark 
from California. That was Mark Dornan, his son. When Mark Dornan 
finished with that particular guest, it was clear who had won. That is 
how close that Dornan family is.
  So faith, family, freedom. Bob Dornan has a lot to offer this 
country, and I think he has injected a lot of value, a lot of ethics 
and a lot of real conservative spirit into this presidential race. I 
would be happy to yield, having talked so long, to the great fighter 
pilot, the gentleman from Texas Mr. Sam Johnson.
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. I just want to thank the gentleman from 
California [Mr. Hunter].
  Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, we had a great time in Texas, incidentally, 
talking to all of the defense industry in this last year with myself 
and the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Sam Johnson, and we had Bob Dornan 
there that time.

  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman would yield, 
he was there, yes.
  Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, Duke Cunningham also, and a lot of the ideas 
that we had for preserving the defense industrial base of this country, 
we have started to carry out in this Republican-led Congress, and you 
have been a big part of that.
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, it has been a revolution for 
the military.
  Mr. HUNTER. So I thank the gentleman from Texas so much, and God 
bless Robert Dornan. I hope you are out there campaigning hard today, 
Bob.

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