President Bill Clinton created the most radical language policy 6 years ago when he signed Executive OrderE.0.-13166 on August 11. 2000. E.O. 13166 declared that all recipients of Federal funds had to be ready to provide all services in any language anyone wished to speak at any time. E.O. 13166 means that while Canada has only two official languages and the United Nations just six. the United States now has over 200 official languages. Efforts to repeal E.O. 13166 have run aground because of a fundamental misunderstanding of what repeal would mean. After the debate on my official English amendment. S.A. 4064. to the Senate immigration bill. S. 2611. E.J.
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