Joe Cunningham: “This is an honest attempt to combine and empower the American people, and especially those that have limited English…”

“This is an honest attempt to combine and empower the American people, and especially those that have limited English skills to help them. Mr. Bill Emerson, the late Bill Emerson, has 200 cosponsors on this bill, 200 cosponsors. They are not mean. They are not after anybody's hide. But they believe that we can help the American people. Bill Emerson did not have a mean bone in his body. I would say that instead of divide, in one of the hearings a gentlelady from India said that when the British were there, that there were over 300 and some languages in India and more than that in the dialects, and they actually adopted a foreign language, English, as their common language when the British were there, and it tied that country together. When the British pulled out, and even today, those different groups are segregated and India is gridlocked because they do not have a common language.”