[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 293 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 293

         Relating to a question of the privileges of the House.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 30, 1997

Mr. Condit submitted the following resolution; which failed of adoption

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                               RESOLUTION


 
         Relating to a question of the privileges of the House.

Whereas Loretta Sanchez was issued a certificate of election as the elected 
        Member of Congress from the 46th District of California and was seated 
        by the U.S. House of Representatives on January 7, 1997;
Whereas a Notice of Contest of Election was filed with the Clerk of the House by 
        Mr. Robert Dornan on December 26, 1996;
Whereas the Task Force on the Contested Election in the 46th District of 
        California met on February 26th, 1997, in Washington, D.C., on April 
        19th, 1997, in Orange County, California, and October 24, 1997, in 
        Washington, D.C.;
Whereas the Committee on House Oversight has issued unprecedented subpoenas to 
        the Immigration and Naturalization Service to compare their records with 
        Orange County voter registration records, the first time in any election 
        in the history of the United States that the Immigration and 
        Naturalization Service has been asked by Congress to verify the 
        citizenship of voters;
Whereas the Immigration and Naturalization Service has complied with the 
        committee's request and, at the committee's request, has been doing a 
        manual check of its paper files and providing worksheets containing 
        supplemental information on that manual check to the Committee on House 
        Oversight for over five months;
Whereas the Committee on House Oversight has after over nine months of review 
        and investigation failed to present credible evidence to change the 
        outcome of the election of Congresswoman Sanchez and is pursuing never-
        ending and unsubstantiated areas of review; and
Whereas the Committee on House Oversight should complete its review of this 
        matter and bring the matter forward for the House of Representatives to 
        vote upon: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That unless the Committee on House Oversight has sooner 
reported a recommendation for its final disposition, the contest in the 
46th District of California is dismissed upon the expiration of October 
31, 1997.
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