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Brandon Williams: “Mr. Chairman, I only wanted to make the point with regard to the very important matter which just preceded this, that of…”

On the recordAugust 1, 1996
Mr. Chairman, I only wanted to make the point with regard to the very important matter which just preceded this, that of these 300 plus so-called foreign languages that we have heard about, almost half of them are native languages, indigenous languages to the original people of the United States, languages that were here hundreds of years before English.
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Brandon Williams
Republican · New York

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Discussing the significance of indigenous languages in the context of foreign languages.

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