María Elvira Salazar: “in response to the colloquy I am having with my friend from Tennessee, it seems to me this language could be read that…”

“in response to the colloquy I am having with my friend from Tennessee, it seems to me this language could be read that Senator Inhofe has proposed to say that because we are a Government Chamber, since we do not have a law that proactively says-- or a rule of the Senate--that you can speak a language other than English here, perhaps when we were speaking about Attorney General Gonzales, we would have been in violation of this exact provision if it stays in the same language. To continue my question to the Senator, my friend from Tennessee, it was not at all our intention in the drafting of the amendment to take away any of the requirements we have for people who come here under this immigration proposal to learn English or to go through the civics courses which are required now for the legislation that has been included in here. So it is my view that the Senator has misread the amendment we have supported.”