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On the recordDecember 1, 1997
I think rather than an annual one-year listing of some 16,000, I think the more accurate statement would be that over the last 5 years some 16,000 people have been prosecuted for perjury in the State of California on a rising trend, unfortunately, for this country.
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Henry Hyde
Illinois

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