[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 28, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H71]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              TIME TO CALL AN END TO SANCHEZ INVESTIGATION

  (Mr. GEJDENSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEJDENSON. Mr. Speaker, simple equity would argue that we ought 
to end the Sanchez investigation and have Congress pay for the bills 
that we fostered upon the gentlewoman from California, hundreds of 
thousands of dollars in legal fees for a race she won by several 
hundred more votes than Speaker Gingrich won his race by several years 
ago.
  Mr. Speaker, if decency and honesty will not do it, my colleagues on 
the other side of the aisle should listen to their pollsters. The 
pollsters say they are driving Hispanic Americans out of the Republican 
party and away from Republican candidates in record numbers. Why? 
Because they see the oppression.
  Mr. Speaker, we had charges on this floor during the debate of fraud 
and other criminal activities, all dismissed by local and State people 
in California. This woman has won this race. It is close to 14 months 
after the election. Decency would demand that we end this 
investigation, pay the legal bills, and stop the chicanery. Just 
because the gentlewoman is a woman Hispanic from California does not 
mean that my colleagues have the right to drag her through the mud for 
the entire two-year term. End this investigation.

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