Session #102 · 1991–93

Speech #1020202409

If one wants to write down the choices before entering the voting booth. and take the votes with him or her. in any language chosen. he or she is free to do so. That is the law now. So there are many alternatives. and most of the immigrant groups may have to use these alternatives. They will. Yet. this legislation provides bilingual ballots for a select groupHispanic Americans. Asian Americans. and Native Americans. There is not one single thing here for the voter who speaks Russian. or Polish. or Italian. or whatever language. Andget thismore Russians received immigrant visas last year than any other national group. I am sure that will be a very quick amendment. We will have that in there very swiftly. I would think. when we brought in over 50.000. or some such figure. in these last months of people who speak Russian. They are not mentioned here. There is nothing here for the Ethiopian or the Iranian refugee. but these folks will do quite fine. thank you. They will learn English. they will vote. and they will succeed here without bilingual ballots. That has been our tradition.
Keywords matched
immigrant visas refugee

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Hispanic Americans Asian Americans Native Americans Russians Ethiopian Iranian
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
ALAN SIMPSON
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
WY
Gender
M
Date
1992-08-04
Speech ID
1020202409
Paragraph
#15
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