Today we have an opportunity to affirm the very basic values of America. and that is to reaffirm every Americans right to vote without barrier or bar. And so I rise to explain the King amendment which has given the wrong impression. and that is the amendment that would eliminate multilingual ballots for citizens. I ask my good friend what he would do for the young soldier who is an immigrant. who is a legal permanent resident and has offered his life in battle in Iraq and Afghanistan and who has managed to make legal permanent residents and then citizens of his own family who have a language barrier because of just recently coming to this country. maybe conversant enough to become citizens. but not enough to read a ballot. This amendment is unconstitutional and unAmerican. and I hope that we will together. Republicans and Democrats. uphold the values of America.
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