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Cliff Stearns: “But I ask him, shouldn't government treat everybody equally? I mean, here you're talking about setting aside a special…”

On the recordJune 28, 2007
But I ask him, shouldn't government treat everybody equally? I mean, here you're talking about setting aside a special program, Where is My Refund program, under the IRS for the Spanish language. But I call the gentleman's attention to New York City. There are Chinese, almost 400,000 Chinese; 300,000 Italians; there are almost 250,000 Russians, there's 152,000 Frenchmen, Polish is a language there. The French Creole is about 100,000. Korean is about 86,000, German is about 86,000. In fact, the total number of people speaking foreign languages in his area, New York City, other than Spanish is 1.7 million people. So why shouldn't the government treat everybody equal is the question for you?
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Cliff Stearns
Florida
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Discussing language access programs and equality in government services during a debate.

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