President. the Governmentmandated program also most surely does create additional expense for local Jurisdictions. and I firmly believe that if we are going to issue a Federal mandate to these local jurisdictions and if we feel this is so important that we must require them to provide bilingual ballots. then we must be ready to put our money where our mouths are and provide the necessary funding for that. I will offer an amendment which will provide for Federal funding of any federally mandated bilingual voter assistance. I would like to speak a great deal more about such things as the unfairness of providing bilingual ballots to some groups and not to others. the serious insult we pay to immigrants who have taken the time and have made the effort to learn English. and other problems I have with this legislation. But I am not going to do that. It is not my intent to filibuster this legislation. and never was.
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