ida. Madam Speaker. I rise today in support of reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act of 1965. However. I am greatly concerned about a provision that is in the bill for bilingual ballots. That language still remains in the bill. Let me be clear. I support legal immigration and certainly celebrating ones heritage. However. the bilingual ballot provision has long kept new citizens from increasing their knowledge of our language and from fully integrating Into our society. Not only is it expensive to print ballots in a variety of different dialects and tongues. but it reinforces a fractious society. I had planned to offer an amendment with my good friend and colleague.
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Bilingual ballots keep new citizens from learning English and integrating into society.