President. on Monday night. with unanimous support. the Senate passed resolution No. 458 that I sponsored. along with 12 other Senators. affirming that the Pledge of Allegiance and the National Anthem be said or sung in the language that unites us as one Nation. that language being English. This was more than bipartisan. It was unanimous. with one dissent expressed on the other side. It should be virtually unanimous. This is the land of immigrants. Almost all Americans know we need and must value our common language. which is English. Yet during the last week. the idea of a nonbinding resolution expressing the Senates thought that whenever we say the Pledge of Allegiance. sing the StarSpangled Banner. take the oath of citizenship. that it ought to be in our common language. produced quite a little storm across the country.
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