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Freewheeling Science Committee Fixture Rohrabacher Loses Reelection Bid

Wednesday, November 7th, 2018

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Freewheeling Science Committee Fixture Rohrabacher Loses Reelection Bid

Low angled view of the U.S. Capitol East Facade Front in Washington, DC.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher’s (R-Calif.) dead-on Ronald Reagan impersonation will ring no more in the halls of the Rayburn Office building in Washington. The 15-term Congressman — a cold warrior, russophile, Science Committee stalwart, and skeptic of NASA’s planned Space Launch System — lost his reelection bid Tuesday night. The 71 year-old Rohrabacher lost California’s 48th District to Republican-turned-Democrat Harley Rouda, a businessman who netted roughly 51 percent of the district’s vote to Rohrabacher’s roughly 49 percent. Rohrbacher lost his seat…

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