1 year after the election of the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Sanchez] to this House and her investigation continues by this House, we went from a witch hunt that started with a half a million questionable individuals, allegedly, to last night's revelation that we are down to 1,000 individuals and still counting downwards. Democrats welcome the opportunity of the U.S. attorney's investigation in California into the broader questions. We welcome that. We want to see what he has got to say. And we welcome any broader voter fraud question. But what we do not welcome is the continuous use of hundreds of thousands of taxpayers' dollars that our conservative friends on the Republican side are always wanting to save, and we agree with them. Why do they not want to save it in this case? The reason they do not want to save it is because they want to use taxpayer dollars to do what their history has done in their own State of California where they were fined $600,000 for voter suppression and voter intimidation. Stop abusing the taxpayers' money.
Bob Menendez: “1 year after the election of the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Sanchez] to this House and her investigation continues…”
On the recordNovember 6, 1997
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Addressing the investigation into voter fraud and the use of taxpayer dollars during a House debate.
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