Barney Frank: “I was struck when the gentleman of Florida said, why should we do this at the expense of other people? That's the crux…”

“I was struck when the gentleman of Florida said, why should we do this at the expense of other people? That's the crux of the disagreement between us. It doesn't come at the expense of other people. The fact that the largest single linguistic minority gets an ability to do this in their own language, which will, by the way, also probably increase tax collection, so it probably is an offset and it probably makes money for the Federal Government. But the gentleman's phrasing ``at the expense of,'' that's what troubles me. It does not come at my expense if we reach out to hardworking people who have trouble with English.”