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Lucille Roybal-Allard: I just want to add and emphasize something that I feel is extremely important. Not only was the subpoena power given to…

On the recordJuly 29, 1997
I just want to add and emphasize something that I feel is extremely important. Not only was the subpoena power given to an ordinary citizen, but the power that was given to subpoena far beyond the district election that was being contested so that the constitutional rights of thousands of other Orange County voters who had nothing to do with this particular election, their records were also subpoenaed. So it is extremely frightening, the fact that, No. 1, this leadership would give subpoena power to an everyday citizen and, second, that that power is extended far beyond the contest in question.
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Lucille Roybal-Allard
California

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Discussing concerns over the extension of subpoena power to citizens during a contested election.

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