Watson Coleman: “I want to ask the chairman of my committee, I have served on the Committee on Appropriations now for a dozen years, I…”

“I want to ask the chairman of my committee, I have served on the Committee on Appropriations now for a dozen years, I will tell Members, I have never seen a procedure or process like this, and I want to ask, who in the world was representing Illinois, New York, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida, places that have a great need for bilingual education, in this closed meeting that I was not invited to? Who was representing them? You all cut some bilingual education programs. I just want to say right now, here in public, that as the rhetoric becomes more harsh about immigrants in America, it is strange to me that these are the very programs we are going to be cutting are the ones that integrate immigrants into our society.”