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Lamar Alexander: “One language to unify us as a nation, one language so we could all speak with one another, and that language is English.”

On the recordApril 30, 2006
One language to unify us as a nation, one language so we could all speak with one another, and that language is English.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Senator Lamar Alexander expresses his belief that the national anthem should only be sung in English to unify the nation.

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