[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 154 (Thursday, November 6, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H10110]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   DORNAN-SANCHEZ CONTESTED ELECTION

  (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, 1 year after the election of the 
gentlewoman from California [Ms. Sanchez] to this House and her 
investigation continues by this House, we went from a witch hunt that 
started with a half a million questionable individuals, allegedly, to 
last night's revelation that we are down to 1,000 individuals and still 
counting downwards.
  Democrats welcome the opportunity of the U.S. attorney's 
investigation in California into the broader questions. We welcome 
that. We want to see what he has got to say. And we welcome any broader 
voter fraud question. But what we do not welcome is the continuous use 
of hundreds of thousands of taxpayers' dollars that our conservative 
friends on the Republican side are always wanting to save, and we agree 
with them.
  Why do they not want to save it in this case? The reason they do not 
want to save it is because they want to use taxpayer dollars to do what 
their history has done in their own State of California where they were 
fined $600,000 for voter suppression and voter intimidation.
  Stop abusing the taxpayers' money.

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