CHARLES A. GONZALEZ: “This is the United States of America. We're not some other Third World country.”

I do not think you are going to have a debate that English proficiency is something that I think enables and empowers individuals.

I don't see that this Congress or any previous Congress has ever been paralyzed by changing technology.

Many of the most vocal complaints about the first decade of this century centered around the practice of granting billions of dollars in no-bid contracts, especially during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

What Mr. King's bill tries to do is not protect the English language, but to encourage us to have some basic commonality of communication.