SANCHEZ COMPLAINS OF MCKEON SNUB; DISTRICT LEFT OUT OF EDUCATION MEETINGS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez Loretta Sanchez (born January 7 1960), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997. She currently represents the 47th Congressional District of California (map) in central Orange County. says congressional Republicans - Rep. Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon in particular - refuse to hold an education meeting in her Orange County district as retribution for her contested election victory over Bob Dornan. The GOP denied that was the sole reason, but Sanchez's fellow Democrats said they were outraged. ``Obviously, they are saying to the people of Orange County and her district that they don't recognize her as a member, that she's not a full-fledged member,'' House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt said Thursday. ``Outrage is not a strong enough word. I'm speechless speech·less adj. 1. Lacking the faculty of speech. 2. Temporarily unable to speak, as through astonishment. 3. Refraining from speech; silent. 4. .'' McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, made the decision to move the meeting from Orange County. The former Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, mayor is chairman of the higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. subcommittee on which Sanchez sits. Sanchez and Rep. William Clay William Clay may refer to:
Dornan lost the election last year by fewer than 1,000 votes. He has claimed voter fraud, and state and federal authorities are investigating. McKeon's spokesman said the election dispute was not the only reason a hearing would not be held in the 46th Congressional District Noun 1. congressional district - a territorial division of a state; entitled to elect one member to the United States House of Representatives district, territorial dominion, territory, dominion - a region marked off for administrative or other purposes in central Orange County. ``He may have said that,'' said Armando Azarloza, McKeon's spokesman. ``But the issue is not the political volatility. There was already a hearing in California, and we'd rather spread the resources around the country.'' McKeon held a higher-education hearing in Northridge in January. Congress routinely holds field hearings to get comments on legislation from around the country. But the hearings are also politically useful for members because they show them in congressional-type settings with all the formal trappings of office. The House subcommittee on post-secondary education had scheduled 12 hearings around the country on a sweeping higher-education authorization bill before Congress this year. Democrats said they had asked that one of the three hearings Republicans said the minority could control be held in Sanchez's district in Orange County. McKeon agreed to the other two hearing spots but denied Sanchez's. |
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