foreign language proficiency and cultural understanding are essential to protecting our national security.

Foreign language proficiency and cultural understanding are essential to protecting our national security.

the whole idea is to get other agencies and departments together in dealing with this language process.

Foreign language skills are necessary to provide vital services to people with limited English abilities.

we have to do something to get the Department of Education to fund major programs, preferably at the K-12 level

I am pleased by the efforts the Department has taken and the importance it has placed on this problem.

the innovation in language draft legislation that Congressman Holt and Congressman Chu from California and Paul Tonko from New York have put together reflects some of the best thinking in the field right now

While I support this goal, I oppose cutting language pay funding to do so.

enact the Senator Akaka bill for a national strategy and coordination so that the whole thing would be managed and coordinated as necessary

the first recommendation calls for strong and comprehensive leadership.

If there were only three things that we could accomplish this Congress that would address the Nation's overall language needs as well as Federal agencies' language shortfall, what should those three things be?

Understanding foreign languages is also vital to our economic security as Americans compete in the global marketplace.

As always, I want to thank Senator Voinovich, who has been a leader on this issue.

Well, I want to thank you very much. We have further questions that we will send to you. But I want to thank you for appearing here today.

This is a great day for America and the American people.

the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act establishes long overdue requirements for simple, meaningful, and relevant disclosures about the cost of sending remittances.

many hard-working immigrants send a portion of their earnings to relatives living abroad.

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I must tell you, it is moving and expanding and it looks good to me.

I think that will make an enormous difference in making progress in the future, and the new agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that the Dodd-Frank bill authorizes, will have full authority to improve disclosures across the…

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