Frank Pallone: “I just want to give two faces to the people that you would deny this right. I had one woman come into my office from the…”

“I just want to give two faces to the people that you would deny this right. I had one woman come into my office from the former Soviet Union. She was in a country, it was a dictatorship at the time, she was Jewish, she could not even exercise her right to go to synagogue. She was so proud of the fact she could come in my office, she could make phone calls, she could do mailings and make a little contribution, I think it was $25. She was so proud of that fact. She could not vote yet because she was applying to be a citizen, but she wanted to participate in the process. I had another woman who was a doctor at the local emergency room, an Indian physician. She wanted to do the same thing. What is wrong with letting these people exercise their rights? Nothing.”