[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 129 (Wednesday, September 24, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H7738]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        REPUBLICANS CAUGHT IN CONTRADICTION IN DISPUTED ELECTION

  (Mr. SERRANO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, once again we find the Republicans caught 
in a very big contradiction. On one hand they put out feelers to the 
Hispanic community saying, ``Come into the party, join us, we want to 
serve you, we want to help you.'' On the other hand they launch the 
unprecedented attack on Loretta Sanchez and Hispanics throughout the 
Nation, somehow insisting that every Hispanic in the country, perhaps 
including myself, participated on election day in some fraud to get 
Loretta elected.
  It is time that Americans realize that this is their way of not 
dealing with the truth. Self-denial is a very pitiful state to be in, 
and that is what Republicans find themselves in. Americans do not like 
it. Hispanics like it even less. It is time that Republicans got it 
through their right-wing, reactionary minds that this is not going to 
work. It is not going to work. Loretta won fair and square, and it is 
time to let her go on with this work in this House and stop harassing 
Hispanics throughout this country.

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