RSSDo you agree English should be our national language?
Carolyn Hileman - The Voice | March 7, 2008
Read Senator Inhofe’s blog post and offer your comments.
This past Wednesday, 12 of my Senate colleagues and I introduced 15 specific bills making critical improvements to our nation’s immigration system. Unlike the flawed comprehensive immigration reform approach taken last year, these bills are each independent and will be considered by the Senate individually. This time, there will be no opportunity to hinder the progress of sensible immigration reform based upon a single obscurity.
My piece of legislation, the National Language Act of 2008, makes English our unifying, national language. It will end the entitlement signed by President Clinton forcing government documents and services to be provided in any language.
Official English makes fiscal sense, and it is what Americans want. The White House Office of Management and Budget has released data indicating government services offered in languages other than English costs between one and two billion dollars each year. Nationwide polling consistently shows Americans overwhelmingly believe that English should be the national language. A recent Zogby International poll shows that even 71 percent of Latinos agree that English should be the national language.
Furthermore, even the U.S. Senate agrees that English should be our official language. In a vote during the comprehensive immigration reform debate last year, the Senate overwhelmingly voted 64-33 to support my amendment making English our national language. And though the amendment failed with the immigration reform bill, I look forward to getting this bill passed in its standalone form.
Soon we will have the opportunity to watch this bill be judged on its own merits, and we will finally have a debate on establishing English as this country’s national language.
Contributor's website: http://thevoice.name
Content posted by users from other sites is posted for commentary and news purposes under fair use and each author is responsible for their own postings and a particular posting should not be construed as being endorsed by this site or its owner.
Leave a Reply
Loading ...Recommended Reading:
