Xavier Becerra: “I want to read from a document entitled ``How To Use The Language of the 21st Century'' by a pollster often used by a…”

“I want to read from a document entitled ``How To Use The Language of the 21st Century'' by a pollster often used by a number of Members, mostly Republican Members. It states as follows, regarding Hispanic Americans: ``Our majority is at stake. ``Republicans barely maintained their congressional majority in 1996, and a major reason their support dropped from 1994 was the utter collapse of the Hispanic vote. In all the large key States, California, Texas, Florida and New York, the Hispanic percentage of the total vote is significant and growing. ``We do not need a majority of Hispanics to win a majority of the vote. In areas of heavy Latino concentration, any Republican who wins more than a third of the Latino vote will be elected. It is that simple. But if we allow our percentage among Hispanics to fall below 25 percent, the Bob Dornan loss in California will be repeated again and again.'' We do not want to have a census that counts us all accurately because if we do there is a good chance that we will catch all those Hispanics that were not counted in the 1990 census. And if we look at the 1996 election, we will see that Hispanics are not voting Republican because of all the assaults on the Hispanic community by this Republican majority.”