Please have your Senators contact Senator Joseph Lieberman and demand that he hold hearings on S.991, The National Language Act.
Last month, in Massachusetts, the radical wing of the Democratic Party got a serious wake-up call. A seat that was owned by the Democratic Party actually called the “Kennedy” seat was lost to a relatively unknown Republican challenger. Right now, Senate Democrats are worried and, I imagine, eager to convince the voters in their states that they are willing to get off their high horses and actually pay attention to the demands of an angry citizenry. In short, the time to push for popular issues is right now. And one of the most popular issues English First has been working on is Senator Inhofe’s National Language Act, S.991.
In prior sessions, Senator Inhofe’s bill was approved more than once, by a huge majority of all Senators. Unfortunately, the only way we were able to get it to the Senate floor for a vote was by turning it into an amendment and sneaking it onto a bill that was being “fast tracked” through the Senate. The arrogant Democratic leadership, people like Majority Leader Harry Reid, would not even allow Senator Inhofe’s bill to get through the committee process so it could be debated and brought to the floor for a vote.
