Madam Speaker. the Republican majority on the Committee on House Oversight seems to be willing to go to any length to overturn the election of Congresswoman LORETTA SANCHEZ. The committee majority is in the process of sharing the Immigration and Naturalization Service records of hundreds of thousands of Orange County residents with the California Secretary of State. These records contain personal information on lawabiding U.S. citizens. many of them targeted by committee investigators simply because they have Hispanic surnames or because they reside in certain neighborhoods. and that is an outrage. Everyone in this House must be concerned if the majority is simply acting as a conduit to circumvent Federal privacy protections. We need to be concerned with the legal issues that are involved for every American in this country. and if HispanicAmericans have to believe that. in fact. simply because of their Hispanic surname. like I who was born in the United States. will be on some list. that that is the reason that they are going to be able to introduce and get into their privacy records. that has no end. and that cannot be tolerated by this Congress.
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Hispanic Americans are being unfairly targeted by investigators based on their surnames and neighborhoods.