let me remind her and the gentleman from New Jersey and the gentleman from Connecticut and the gentleman from Massachusetts, as a result of an initial investigation into this matter, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, that is part of their administration, ordered that an arm of its citizenship testing program be shut down effective January 6, 1997. That is not Republicans, that is Democrats. Democrats decided to shut down a citizenship testing program after it was acknowledged and verified that there were proven cases of fraud. I am not a lawyer. We can put up here the best lawyers and we can talk about subpoenas and go on and on, but their administration found there was acknowledged and verified fraud. So this is a concern of not just Democrats and Republicans and Independents, this is a concern of every Member of Congress; there but for the grace of God go you, me, any one of us.
Cliff Stearns: “let me remind her and the gentleman from New Jersey and the gentleman from Connecticut and the gentleman from…”
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Discussing the shutdown of a citizenship testing program due to fraud allegations.
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