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From the Congressional Record, Volume 155 (2009)


[History of Bills, Volume 155 (2009)]
[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 Committee on 
    Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on the 
    Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
    Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
    within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.


By Mr. KING of Iowa (for himself, Mrs. Bachmann, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. 
Luetkemeyer, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. Coble, Mr. 
Culberson, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. Dreier, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Franks of 
Arizona, Mr. Brown of South Carolina, Mr. Herger, Mr. Inglis, Mr. 
Jones, Mr. McCaul, Mr. McHenry, Mr. Paul, Mr. Roe of Tennessee, Mr. 
Rogers of Alabama, Mr. Tiberi, Mr. Broun of Georgia, Mr. Graves, Mr. 
Bilirakis, Mrs. Myrick, Mr. Simpson, Mr. McHugh, Mr. Platts, Mr. 
Hoekstra, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Bilbray, Mr. Rogers of Kentucky, Mr. 
Rogers of Michigan, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Fleming, Mr. Smith of Nebraska, Mr. 
Shuster, Ms. Foxx, Mr. Poe of Texas, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Bartlett, Mr. 
Whitfield, Mr. Gary G. Miller of California, Mr. Kline of Minnesota, 
Mr. Marchant, Mrs. Lummis, Mr. Wittman, Mr. Stearns, Mr. LaTourette, 
Mr. Akin, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Ms. Fallin, Mr. Wamp, 
Mr. Pitts, Mrs. Schmidt, Mr. Westmoreland, and Mr. McClintock), H1247 
[11FE]

  Cosponsors added, H2603 [23FE], H2632 [24FE], H2836 [25FE], H2886 
  [2MR], H2926 [3MR], H3056 [5MR], H3105 [9MR], H3146 [10MR], H3402 
  [12MR], H3438 [16MR], H3527 [17MR], H4027 [25MR], H4064 [26MR], 
  H4583 [21AP], H4840 [27AP], H4915 [28AP], H5400 [7MY], H5792 [19MY], 
  H6155 [3JN], H6307 [8JN], H6414 [9JN], H6807 [15JN], H6904 [16JN], 
  H8495 [21JY], H9342 [8SE], H9491 [14SE], H9670 [16SE], H9899 [23SE], 
  H14446 [9DE]



From the Congressional Record, Volume 156 (2010)


[History of Bills, Volume 156 (2010)]
[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 Committee on 
    Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on the 
    Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
    Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
    within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  Cosponsors added, H40 [12JA], H146 [15JA], H194 [19JA], H387 [26JA], 
  H3079 [29AP], H3123 [4MY], H8089 [7DE]