In my, as we call it in the Senate, so-called maiden address, I spoke on this subject, and I said I thought we had spent over the last 30 or 40 years too much time, relatively, on diversity, multiculturalism, and bilingualism and too little time on a common culture, on a common language, and on unity.
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The accomplishment is that we have taken all that variety and diversity and turned it into one country, and we do not talk about that.
the legislation I propose today will help our schools do what they were established to do in the first place.
We hope we can play a role in taking all the various programs... back in its rightful place in our curriculum.
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