[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 110 (Wednesday, July 30, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H6301-H6302]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           STOP HARASSMENT OF HISPANIC CANDIDATES AND VOTERS

  (Ms. CHRISTIAN-GREEN asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. CHRISTIAN-GREEN. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues on the other side of 
the aisle have singled out the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Loretta

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Sanchez] and the voters of the 46th District of California for the kind 
of scrutiny and harassment this body has never seen before.
  The Committee on House Oversight and former representative Bob 
Dornan, whom the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Sanchez) defeated, 
have led a widespread, abusive and costly search for voter fraud, 
claiming that the gentlewoman won her seat in Congress because of 
massive illegal voting by noncitizens and illegal immigrants.
  After 9 months of inquiry, Mr. Speaker, and more than $300,000 in 
taxpayer dollars spent, my Republican colleagues have failed to prove 
that Mr. Dornan's loss was a result of electoral fraud.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time to wrap up the House inquiry, as the Los 
Angeles Times said over 3 months ago. It is time to end this blatant 
harassment of the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Sanchez] and the 
targeting of Hispanics in general. This effort to intimidate and harass 
new citizens with foreign surnames to stop them from voting must end.

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