[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 116 (Friday, September 5, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H6923]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     IT IS TIME FOR BOB DORNAN TO STOP WASTING THE TAXPAYERS' MONEY

  (Mr. MENENDEZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise about the House election contest in 
California.
  First, Bob Dornan is given unprecedented subpoena power which he uses 
to harass and violate the privacy rights of law-abiding American 
citizens simply because they have a Spanish surname. Then those actions 
amount to nothing short of a witch-hunt.
  Now I read in yesterday's Roll Call that Bob Dornan will use his 
special privileges as a former Member to take his witch-hunt to the 
House floor. Surely, this casts an appearance of impropriety upon the 
House.
  If this election were being challenged by any American other than a 
defeated Member of the House, that American could not come to the House 
floor to lobby on behalf of their own interests. They would not get 
special subpoena powers, and neither should Bob Dornan.
  Bob Dornan should not use the privileges as a former Member of this 
House to influence his case. Mr. Speaker, there should not be a case at 
all. The Republican California Secretary of State certified the 
election of the gentlewoman from California, and there is no sufficient 
credible evidence to challenge it.
  It is time for Bob Dornan to stop wasting taxpayers' money, to end 
this witch-hunt and end the influence that he is trying to use in this 
House.

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