[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 154 (Thursday, November 6, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H10111]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 THE TIME HAS COME FOR THE REPUBLICANS TO DISMISS THE CHARGES AGAINST 
                            LORETTA SANCHEZ

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, it has become clear to all 
that the case that the Republicans have been pursuing against the 
gentlewoman from California [Ms. Sanchez] has failed. It has failed for 
the simple reason that they have been unable to provide us sufficient 
evidence to suggest that somehow she was improperly elected to her seat 
in the Congress. And yet in spite of that overwhelming evidence of a 
lack of evidence to voter fraud affecting her seat, they continue this 
investigation.
  They have sent out subpoenas to people, improperly so; they have 
questioned the citizenship of individuals who have properly voted; they 
have questioned all sorts of voters, but what they have not been able 
to do is they have not been able to prove that she has been improperly 
elected.
  The time has come for the Republicans to drop this case and to 
dismiss the charges against the gentlewoman from California [Ms. 
Sanchez] and let her conduct herself on behalf of the citizens she was 
elected to represent in Orange County, CA. The time has come to stop 
this witch hunt against Hispanic voters and to let Loretta Sanchez sit 
as an equal with the rest of us.

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