Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1996. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1996. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Reuters NewMedia, Inc. - 26 July 1996
Jim Adams
Depending on how that fight turns out, the California Republican warned in a statement, "I will discuss the breakdown in communication, trust and leadership among Republicans in the House. I intend to discuss in depth my contention that my Republican party is on the brink of self-destruction."
Dornan would normally be one of the House-Senate negotiators writing a compromise $265 billion defence authorisation bill because he is chairman of a House subcommittee that helped write the House version.
He also wrote some of its most controversial provisions, including those that would repeal President Clinton's policy allowing gays in the military, prohibit the sale of erotic magazines and videotapes on military bases and dismiss people with the AIDS-causing HIV virus from the military.
But Dornan said the House leadership, led by Speaker Newt Gingrich, removed him from the negotiations as punishment for his endorsement of New York Republican Representative Sue Kelly's primary election opponent, Joseph DioGuardi.
"No matter how they say it, I was taken off the battlefield," Dornan told reporters. When a reporter told him House leaders want him to write a letter to Kelly withdrawing his endorsement of her opponent, Dornan said, "What an offensive and outrageous demand. How dare they."
Asked if Republican leaders might also want to remove him to keep him from holding up the defence bill unless his social demands are in it, Dornan said, "I hope not, and it better not be anything else."
He said that if leaders keep him off the defence bill negotiations they might as well remove him as chairman of the House National Security Committee's personnel subcommittee. That would be the severest punishment they could impose on Dornan but he said several of the Republican leaders had already told him "nobody's losing their chairmanship."
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