Sam Farr: “I am glad to comment for a minute and then yield here for a colloquy with my friends because I think why we are here…”

“I am glad to comment for a minute and then yield here for a colloquy with my friends because I think why we are here tonight is to stand on the floor of the House of Representatives in defense of this institution and criticizing essentially the attack that has been made upon this institution. It has been an attack on this institution, because it is an attack on a particular Member, the gentlewoman from California, Ms. Loretta Sanchez, who got elected to this House. She was declared the vote winner by the Secretary of State of the State of California, entered this House, took the oath of office. And now there is a witch hunt to say that because she had a close election, she won by 984 votes, that therefore, and because her name is Sanchez, and because she lives in southern California, and because many people in southern California have Latino names, that people voted in that election who should not have voted. Mr. Speaker, I think there are probably people in most elections in America who voted who should not have voted. There are illegal votes cast in this country. But to say that they were all cast in one congressional district is ridiculous.”