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From the Congressional Record, Volume 153 (2007)


[History of Bills, Volume 153 (2007)]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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H.R. 997--A bill to declare English as the official language of the 
    United States, to establish a uniform English language rule for 
    naturalization, and to avoid misconstructions of the English 
    language texts of the laws of the United States, pursuant to 
    Congress' powers to provide for the general welfare of the United 
    States and to establish a uniform rule of naturalization under 
    article I, section 8, of the Constitution; to the Committees on 
    Education and Labor; the Judiciary.


By Mr. KING of Iowa (for himself, Mr. King of New York, Mr. Sali, Mrs. 
Bachmann, Ms. Foxx, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. Pence, Mr. Doolittle, 
Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Feeney, Mr. Price of 
North Carolina, Mrs. McMorris Rodgers, Mr. Gingrey, Mr. Sessions, Mr. 
Burgess, Mrs. Cubin, Mr. Saxton, Mr. Miller of Florida, Mr. Shuster, 
Mr. Westmoreland, Mr. Linder, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Hall of Texas, Mr. 
Lewis of Kentucky, and Mr. Culberson), H1471 [12FE]

  Cosponsors added, H1565 [13FE], H1669 [14FE], H1791 [15FE], H1897 
  [16FE], H2121 [1MR], H2341 [8MR], H2486 [13MR], H2744 [20MR], H3081 
  [26MR], H3279 [28MR], H3476 [17AP], H4176 [25AP], H4914 [10MY], 
  H5622 [22MY], H6111 [6JN], H6181 [7JN], H6235 [11JN], H7203 [26JN], 
  H8121 [18JY], H8618 [25JY], H9710 [3AU], H10157 [5SE], H10245 [6SE], 
  H10363 [10SE], H10510 [18SE], H11028 [27SE], H11316 [4OC], H11491 
  [10OC], H11847 [22OC], H12238 [30OC], H12455 [1NO], H13296 [7NO], 
  H14157 [4DE], H15208 [6DE], H15317 [11DE], H16949 [19DE]
  Removal of cosponsors, H2039 [28FE]



From the Congressional Record, Volume 154 (2008)


[History of Bills, Volume 154 (2008)]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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H.R. 997--A bill to declare English as the official language of the 
    United States, to establish a uniform English language rule for 
    naturalization, and to avoid misconstructions of the English 
    language texts of the laws of the United States, pursuant to 
    Congress' powers to provide for the general welfare of the United 
    States and to establish a uniform rule of naturalization under 
    article I, section 8, of the Constitution; to the Committees on 
    Education and Labor; the Judiciary.
  Cosponsors added, H25 [15JA], H295 [16JA], H621 [6FE], H995 [14FE], 
  H2151 [9AP]