If you are looking for something 'dignified' then the Senate might be the wrong place to look ... seen a Ted Kennedy speech recently?
My beef here is with the same cabal of prigs that immediately start in with the "Tancrediots won't like this" nonsense. There are about 7 extremely self-righteous FReepers who throw around the words 'racist' and 'xenophobe' any time someone argues in favor of law or tradition ...
Or Box-O-Rox - Or Reid - Or Biden - Or Kerry - Or some of those other Ciceros on the 'Rat side of the aisle. They are a disgrace to the Senate -- the whole stinking lot of them!
It has to be killing some of those 'Rats that the first speech in the Senate given in Spanish was by a Republican. They think "all your minorities are belong to us". The difference between us and the 'Rats is -- we don't see them as minorities, we see them as Americans. In fact, we've had US Military personnel end up as KIAs that we not even American Citizens -- and many of them were Spanish-speaking, as is my Venezuelan-native US Naturalized Citizen stepmother, who takes care of my ill father -- a former Marine. So, VIVA MEL -- VIVA BUSH -- VIVA Jeb in 2008!