Pelosi scuttles measure requiring English on the job

[HisDaughter]

I'll be nice. I won't go there. 

Ah....but you know you want to!

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I can think of MUCH worse problems involving the same substance - confusing Bengay with Preparation H.

One of many reasons to know English in the U.S.

 If they can't speak English, then they need to hire a speaker for themselves.

I can live with that..

[Soldier4Christ]

          ROFL!

I can think of MUCH worse problems involving the same substance - confusing Bengay with Preparation H.

That would give them a real reason to dance in the streets.

[nChrist]

That would give them a real reason to dance in the streets.

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AND, I doubt it would be a slow dance. I'm thinking it would be a version of the quick step.

[Soldier4Christ]

lol  ...  Perhaps we could give them a little assistance in direction with that quick step.

[HisDaughter]

lol  ...  Perhaps we could give them a little assistance in direction with that quick step.

[Soldier4Christ]

Pelosi sides with Hispanic Caucus in funding EEOC suit against Salvation Army

An advocate for making English the official language in the U.S. is calling on members of a House-Senate conference committee to support a measure introduced by Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) that would prohibit the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) from using funds to sue The Salvation Army.

Jim Boulet, executive director of English First, says thanks to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) the Salvation Army might have to expend badly needed funds in order to defend itself against a lawsuit brought by the EEOC. The EEOC is representing two Hispanic women who refused to comply with the Salvation Army's requirement to learn English.

Boulet says the Christian organization prevailed in 2003 when another former employee sued under similar circumstances. But he says the EEOC suit has now gone into the halls of Congress. "Senator Lamar Alexander got word of this and put an amendment into an appropriations bill [stating] that the EEOC can't spend any money to sue businesses like the Salvation Army over English in the workplace policies," says Boulet.

However, he says when the measure reached the House, it provoked the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. "The House passed a motion to instruct its conferees to please support the Alexander language, at which point the Hispanic Caucus went berserk and demanded that the language be removed," he points out.

Boulet says Pelosi has sided with the Hispanic Caucus and has effectively stopped any conference committee vote from taking place until the Alexander amendment is dropped. In response, Boulet is encouraging concerned citizens to express their support for the measure, and to show support for the Salvation Army by dropping a few extra dollars into the kettles this Christmas season.