[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 129 (Wednesday, September 24, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H7739]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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               BOB DORNAN'S TAXPAYER-FINANCED WITCH HUNT

  (Mr. BECERRA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BECERRA. Mr. Speaker, now almost 1 year and a half a million 
dollars later neutral observers are saying what everyone in this House 
has been saying for the longest of times. The people of the 46th 
Congressional District in California voted Bob Dornan out of office, 
and they voted the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Sanchez] in. Yet 
the Republican leadership continues to waste taxpayer dollars funding 
Bob Dornan's election witch hunt against the gentlewoman from 
California [Ms. Sanchez] and his customary tirades. Now we hear that 
the Republican leadership has a scheme to reject the vote of the people 
of the 46th Congressional District and to take away the job that the 
gentlewoman from California [Ms. Sanchez] earned from the voters. The 
leadership on the Republican side will allege that there were too many 
questionable votes in the 984-vote victory of the gentlewoman from 
California.
  Who was the target of this so-called questionable voting campaign? 
Hispanics. Who was the target of the harassment in this investigation? 
Hispanic voters.
  It is the people of America who vote people into office; it is the 
people of America who vote people out. It is not witch hunts that are 
paid for and financed by taxpayers at the expense of those people who 
vote and do so. Bob Dornan does not have the right to do this at 
taxpayer expense.

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