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Cliff Stearns: I would just say, if you're speaking French Creole in your congressional district and you got a refund, you would…

On the recordJune 28, 2007
I would just say, if you're speaking French Creole in your congressional district and you got a refund, you would certainly want that to be in our language, too. I think I've made the argument clear that with all these different languages, the government should not pick out any one and should just do it in the official language, which is English.
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Cliff Stearns
Florida

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Discussing language use in government communications during a congressional debate.

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