Session #105 · 1997–99

Speech #1050003192

The bill I am Introducing today. the Declaration of Official Language Act. follows State governments and localities in designating English as the official language of our Federal Government. It has the strong support of citizen organizations such as English First and the Veterans of Foreign Wars as evidenced by their letters of endorsement I have Included for the RECORD. Not only do many American people generally agree on the matter. but so do our Nations Immigrants and language minorities. The Latino National Political Survey data released on December 15. 1992. shows Hispanics. even recent Immigrants. speak English and want their children to learn English. Hispanics agreed by more than 90 percent that U.S. residents should learn English to take full advantage of the services afforded to them. As these immigrants know. English Is the language of opportunity in America. Unfortunately. our Federal Government encourages official bilingualism.
Keywords matched
immigrants Immigrants

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Hispanics
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
Unknown
Party
Chamber
State
Gender
Date
1997-02-06
Speech ID
1050003192
Paragraph
#0
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