Honorable Linda Sanchez
United States Representative, California, Democrat
Representative Sanchez, of the Thirty-Eighth District of California, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002. She was previously a lawyer in private practice and served as Executive Secretary and Treasurer of the Orange County, California, AFL-CIO from 2000 to 2002. She sits on the Ways and Means Committee. The following is from the July 13, 2006, House floor debate on H.R. 9, the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006. I rise today to urge my colleagues to oppose all four of today’s amendments and…
