Someone sent this to me in an email the other day:
What I'd like to hear when I call a phone number:
If you can speak American, press one.
If you can't, press two, and hang up til you learn.
Sorry--don't mean to be ugly, but I have to admit, this sounded good to me--LOL!
You might like this bill that has been introduced.
SECTION 1. NULLIFICATION OF EFFECT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER.
Executive Order 13166, `Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency' (August 16, 2000; 65 Fed. Reg. 50121), is null and void and shall have no force or effect.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST USE OF FUNDS FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES.
No funds appropriated pursuant to any provision of law may be used to promulgate or enforce any executive order that creates an entitlement to services provided in any language other than English.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-768
Mr. KING of New York (for himself, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. GINGREY, Mr. HALL of Texas, Mr. TAYLOR, Mr. PAUL, Mr. KING of Iowa, Mr. ROYCE, Mr. ALEXANDER, Mrs. JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia, Mr. NORWOOD, Mr. MILLER of Florida, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. GALLEGLY, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. PLATTS, Mr. SOUDER, Mr. SESSIONS, Mrs. CUBIN, Mr. GOODE, Mr. MCKEON, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. BAKER, Mr. STEARNS, Mr. RAMSTAD, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. CULBERSON, Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida, Mr. TERRY, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. BACHUS, and Mr. PRICE of Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
And these:
H.R. 769: To amend title 4, United States Code, to declare English as the official language of...
To amend title 4, United States Code, to declare English as the official language of the Government of the United States, and for other purposes.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-769
This oH.R. 769: To amend title 4, United States Code, to declare English as the official language of...
To amend title 4, United States Code, to declare English as the official language of the Government of the United States, and for other purposes.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=hj110-17
And this:
H. J. Res. 19: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to establish English as the official language of the United States
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=hj110-19