[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 150 (Friday, October 31, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H9805]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        DORNAN-SANCHEZ ELECTION

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, the Republican leadership has spent 10 
months and more than $500,000 investigating the election of our 
colleague, the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Sanchez]. This money 
could have been better spent providing immunizations for 3,000 children 
or providing prenatal care for 450 pregnant women.
  What is most disturbing about this investigation is that the 
Republican leadership seems to be focusing on this race because it is a 
seat held by a Democratic Hispanic woman and Hispanic voters might have 
made the difference in this election. Other closer elections last year 
for Congress did not result, did not result, in similar investigations. 
This, unfortunately, is only the latest example of the Republican 
Party's attempts to suppress Hispanic voting and to intimidate Hispanic 
voters.
  The latest move to turn this investigation back to the Republican 
Secretary of State in California is clearly another attempt to prolong 
this partisan witch hunt.
  The gentlewoman from California [Ms. Sanchez] won this election fair 
and square. The people of the 46th deserve to have her undivided 
attention. Let us bring an end to this investigation.

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