[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 266 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 266

   To commend the community leaders of the Monterey Peninsula on the 
    central California coast for their encouragement, support, and 
                   sponsorship of language diversity.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 14, 1995

 Mr. Farr of California submitted the following resolution; which was 
  referred to the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   To commend the community leaders of the Monterey Peninsula on the 
    central California coast for their encouragement, support, and 
                   sponsorship of language diversity.

Whereas industries of the United States must be able to compete in the 
        international marketplace in order for the United States to remain a 
        global leader;
Whereas the United States, in recent years, has shifted from a nation of 
        providers of goods to a nation of providers of service ;
Whereas if the United States is to remain competitive as a nation of providers 
        of service, the people of the United States must speak the languages of 
        their customers;
Whereas when communities promote the use of available language resources, this 
        sends a strong signal to other countries that the United States will 
        remain globally competitive; and
Whereas the Monterey Peninsula on the Central California Coast is home to the 
        most diversified professional language resources in the United States, 
        including the Defense Language Institute, the Naval Post Graduate 
        School, the AT&T Language Line, the Monterey Institute of International 
        Studies, California State University at Monterey Bay, the University of 
        California at Santa Cruz, and Monterey Peninsula College: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) commends community leaders of the Monterey Peninsula on 
        the central California coast for recognizing, embracing, and 
        promoting language resources;
            (2) endorses the community's efforts to make these 
        resources available throughout the United States;
            (3) applauds the goals of the community's public-private 
        partnership which has launched the ``Monterey Language Capital 
        of the World'' initiative to ensure the continued global 
        leadership of the United States; and
            (4) encourages other communities to embrace and use their 
        valuable language resources for the benefit of their 
        communities, and for prosperity of their regions, States, and 
        the United States.
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