LANGUAGES

Articles and editorials

Middlebury To Develop Online Language Venture, S2638 [26AP]

Puerto Rican Government Wants Bilingual Nation, H3038 [29AP]

Bills and resolutions

Dept. of Education: provide low-income students with access to early education programs that promote school readiness, address achievement gap for English-language learners, and encourage bilingualism (see H.R. 6435), H7614 [18NO]

Education: improve foreign language instruction (see H.R. 6036), H6569 [30JY]

Federal employees: provide premium pay for employees whose official duties require the use of one or more languages besides English (see H.R. 4832), H1358 [11MR]

Immigration: clarify that a period of employment of certain security advisors, translators, or interpreters in Iraq or Afghanistan is counted for purposes of qualifying for naturalization (see H.R. 5052), H2640 [15AP]

National Stuttering Awareness Week: support goals and ideals (see S. Res. 524), S3716 [13MY]

Puerto Rico: increase maximum amount of Federal funding available for English-language instruction in public schools (see H.R. 4668), H754 [23FE]

Letters

Require a certain level of English proficiency as a condition for Puerto Rican statehood: Mauro E. Mujica, U.S. English, Inc., H3038 [29AP]

Remarks in House

Dept. of Agriculture: implement communication standards to ensure availability of nutrition programs information in language appropriate to the community being served, H7811 [1DE]

Dept. of Education: anniversary of Title VI international education programs (H. Con. Res. 126), H5681-H5683 [19JY]

———provide low-income students with access to early education programs that promote school readiness, address achievement gap for English-language learners, and encourage bilingualism (H.R. 6435), H7503 [17NO]

English language: declare as national language of U.S. (H.R. 1229), H3696 [20MY], H6868 [22SE]

———require accreditation of training programs (S. 1338), H7817, H7818 [1DE]

Office of the Director of National Intelligence: establish a pilot program under the National Security Education Program to identify and develop extensive training programs for high-priority African languages, H852, H853 [25FE], H7305 [29SE]

———provide grants to institutions of higher learning to develop innovative methods for teaching high-priority language skills, H851, H852 [25FE]

Puerto Rico: amend description of statehood on self-determination ballot to include recognition of English as official language and the assurance of the right to bear arms, H3057, H3058 [29AP]

———require a certain level of English proficiency as a condition for statehood, H3038 [29AP]

———require ballots for the federally sanctioned self-determination process be printed in Spanish, H3044, H3045 [29AP]

———require English to become official language, H3024 [29AP]

———retain requirement that ballots for the federally sanctioned self-determination process be printed in English as well as Spanish and apply any Federal government language requirements to Puerto Rico, H3046, H3047 [29AP], E741 [4MY]

Viet Bao Daily News Inc.: anniversary of Writing on America Award, E1455 [28JY]

Remarks in Senate

English language: require accreditation of training programs (S. 1338), S7559 [27SE]

Middlebury College: tribute to development of online language program for precollege students, S2583 [22AP], S2638 [26AP]

National Stuttering Awareness Week: support goals and ideals (S. Res. 524), S3683 [13MY]

Resolutions by organizations

Tribute to William G. Demmert, Jr.: College of Hawaiian Language, University of Hawaii at Hilo, S374 [1FE]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 126, Dept. of Education Title VI international education programs anniversary, H5681 [19JY]

S. 1338, require accreditation of English language training programs, S7559 [27SE], H7817 [1DE]

S. Res. 524, support goals and ideals of National Stuttering Awareness Week, S3684, S3721 [13MY]