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Jerry Lewis: “Mr. Speaker, responding to the gentleman from California, this bill is designed to add additional land to the Manzanar…”

On the recordJuly 31, 1996
Mr. Speaker, responding to the gentleman from California, this bill is designed to add additional land to the Manzanar Historic Site. I think the House knows that that was a major location whereby Americans of Japanese descent were interned during World War II, and it is combined with a rather fantastic environmental project taking place between the country of Inyo and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
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Jerry Lewis
California

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Discussing a bill to expand the Manzanar Historic Site and its environmental project.

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