Thread: Congress Defunds DHS' Foreign Language Mandate!

Congress Defunds DHS' Foreign Language Mandate!	Take Action!
June 13, 2012
ProEnglish applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for passing an amendment that stops taxpayer dollars from funding unlimited translation services at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The agency was required to provide written and oral interpretation services in any language requested by the public under a Clinton-era executive order (EO 13166). The amendment offered by Rep. Steve King (R-IA) passed by a bipartisan vote of 224 to 189 last Thursday (Roll Call 362). Rep. Steve King stated: “We got along fine without this executive order up until the year 2000, and we’ll get along fine without it after 2012.” “The assimilation component doesn’t take place if you facilitate foreign language speaking within government,” Rep. King continued. “87 percent of Americans support this policy – the policy of English as the official language. There is nothing in it that prevents Justice or emergency services from using language services from taking care of the people.” Rep. King offered this amendment on the heels of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) recent decision to implement a nationwide “language access plan” after an unnamed illegal alien filed a complaint with USDA. The illegal alien alleged that the U.S. Forest Service violated her “civil rights” by calling Border Patrol for back up and translation assistance when she was discovered to be without identification in a national forest. TAKE ACTION! Check this roll call vote tally to see how your Congressman voted. If your Rep. voted YEA, send a quick ‘Thank You’ NOW! The message attached is blank so you can compose your own personal note to your Congressman. Capital Switchboard: 202-224-3121 http://www.proenglish.org/ This is the way they voted FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 362 (Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined) H R 5855 RECORDED VOTE 7-Jun-2012 9:07 PM AUTHOR(S): First King of Iowa Amendment QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Amendment Ayes Noes PRES NV Republican 217 15 9 Democratic 7 174 9 Independent TOTALS 224 189 18 ---- AYES 224 --- Adams Aderholt Alexander Altmire Amash Austria Bachmann Bachus Barletta Barrow Bartlett Barton (TX) Bass (NH) Benishek Berg Bilbray Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Bonner Boren Boustany Brady (TX) Brooks Broun (GA) Buchanan Bucshon Buerkle Burgess Burton (IN) Calvert Camp Campbell Canseco Cantor Capito Carter Cassidy Chabot Chaffetz Coffman (CO) Cole Conaway Cravaack Crawford Crenshaw Culberson Davis (KY) Denham Dent DesJarlais Dreier Duffy Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Ellmers Emerson Farenthold Fincher Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fleming Flores Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Gallegly Gardner Garrett Gerlach Gibbs Gibson Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte Gosar Gowdy Granger Graves (GA) Graves (MO) Griffith (VA) Grimm Guinta Guthrie Hall Hanna Harper Harris Hartzler Hastings (WA) Hayworth Hensarling Herger Herrera Beutler Huelskamp Huizenga (MI) Hultgren Hunter Hurt Issa Jenkins Johnson (IL) Johnson (OH) Johnson, Sam Jones Jordan Kelly King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kinzinger (IL) Kissell Kline Labrador Lamborn Lance Landry Lankford Latham LaTourette Latta Lipinski LoBiondo Long Lucas Luetkemeyer Lummis Lungren, Daniel E. Mack Manzullo Marchant McCarthy (CA) McCaul McClintock McCotter McHenry McIntyre McKeon McKinley McMorris Rodgers Meehan Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Mulvaney Murphy (PA) Neugebauer Noem Nugent Nunes Nunnelee Olson Palazzo Paulsen Pearce Pence Peterson Petri Pitts Platts Poe (TX) Pompeo Posey Price (GA) Quayle Reed Rehberg Renacci Ribble Rigell Roby Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Rokita Rooney Roskam Ross (FL) Ryan (WI) Scalise Schilling Schmidt Schock Schweikert Scott (SC) Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Sessions Shimkus Shuster Simpson Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Southerland Stearns Stivers Stutzman Sullivan Terry Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiberi Turner (NY) Turner (OH) Upton Walberg Walden Walsh (IL) Webster West Westmoreland Whitfield Wilson (SC) Wittman Wolf Womack Yoder Young (AK) Young (FL) ---- NOES 189 --- Ackerman Amodei Andrews Baca Becerra Berkley Berman Biggert Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Bonamici Bono Mack Boswell Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brown (FL) Butterfield Capps Capuano Cardoza Carnahan Carney Carson (IN) Castor (FL) Chandler Chu Cicilline Clarke (MI) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly (VA) Cooper Costa Costello Courtney Critz Crowley Cuellar Cummings Davis (CA) Davis (IL) DeFazio DeGette DeLauro Deutch Diaz-Balart Dicks Dingell Doggett Dold Donnelly (IN) Doyle Edwards Ellison Engel Eshoo Farr Fattah Flake Frank (MA) Frelinghuysen Fudge Garamendi Gonzalez Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Gutierrez Hahn Hanabusa Hastings (FL) Heck Heinrich Higgins Himes Hinchey Hinojosa Hirono Hochul Holden Holt Honda Hoyer Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson Lee (TX) Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Kaptur Keating Kildee Kind Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Levin Lewis (GA) Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Luján Lynch Maloney Markey Matheson Matsui McCarthy (NY) McCollum McDermott McGovern McNerney Meeks Michaud Miller (NC) Miller, George Moore Moran Murphy (CT) Nadler Napolitano Olver Owens Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Pelosi Perlmutter Peters Pingree (ME) Polis Price (NC) Quigley Rahall Rangel Reichert Reyes Richardson Richmond Rivera Ros-Lehtinen Ross (AR) Rothman (NJ) Roybal-Allard Royce Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Schakowsky Schiff Schrader Schwartz Scott (VA) Scott, David Serrano Sewell Sherman Sires Smith (WA) Speier Stark Sutton Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tierney Tipton Tonko Tsongas Van Hollen Velázquez Visclosky Walz (MN) Wasserman Schultz Waters Watt Waxman Welch Wilson (FL) Woodall Woolsey Yarmuth Young (IN) ---- NOT VOTING 18 --- Akin Baldwin Bass (CA) Bilirakis Coble Conyers Filner Griffin (AR) Kucinich Lewis (CA) Marino Myrick Neal Paul Runyan Shuler Slaughter Towns

The amendment:

32. H.AMDT.1265 to H.R.5855 An amendment to prohibit the use of funds to be used to enforce Executive Order 13166, with regards to providing translation and interpretaion services to those limited in their English proficiency.
Sponsor: Rep King, Steve [IA-5] (introduced 6/7/2012) Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 6/7/2012 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the King (IA) amendment (A032) Agreed to by recorded vote: 224 - 189 (Roll no. 362).

Clinton's Executive Order 13166

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary
(Aboard Air Force One)

__________________________________________________ _______________________
For Immediate Release August 11, 2000


EXECUTIVE ORDER

13166

IMPROVING ACCESS TO SERVICES FOR
PERSONS WITH LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENCY


By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States of America, and to improve access to
federally conducted and federally assisted programs and activities for
persons who, as a result of national origin, are limited in their
English proficiency (LEP), it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Goals.

The Federal Government provides and funds an array of services that
can be made accessible to otherwise eligible persons who are not
proficient in the English language. The Federal Government is
committed to improving the accessibility of these services to eligible
LEP persons, a goal that reinforces its equally important commitment to
promoting programs and activities designed to help individuals learn
English. To this end, each Federal agency shall examine the services
it provides and develop and implement a system by which LEP persons can
meaningfully access those services consistent with, and without unduly
burdening, the fundamental mission of the agency. Each Federal agency
shall also work to ensure that recipients of Federal financial
assistance (recipients) provide meaningful access to their LEP
applicants and beneficiaries. To assist the agencies with this
endeavor, the Department of Justice has today issued a general
guidance document (LEP Guidance), which sets forth the compliance
standards that recipients must follow to ensure that the programs and
activities they normally provide in English are accessible to LEP
persons and thus do not discriminate on the basis of national origin
in violation of title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended,
and its implementing regulations. As described in the LEP Guidance,
recipients must take reasonable steps to ensure meaningful access to
their programs and activities by LEP persons.

Sec. 2. Federally Conducted Programs and Activities.

Each Federal agency shall prepare a plan to improve access to its
federally conducted programs and activities by eligible LEP persons.
Each plan shall be consistent with the standards set forth in the LEP
Guidance, and shall include the steps the agency will take to ensure
that eligible LEP persons can meaningfully access the agency's programs
and activities. Agencies shall develop and begin to implement these
plans within 120 days of the date of this order, and shall send copies
of their plans to the Department of Justice, which shall serve as the
central repository of the agencies' plans.

Sec. 3. Federally Assisted Programs and Activities.

Each agency providing Federal financial assistance shall draft
title VI guidance specifically tailored to its recipients that is
consistent with the LEP Guidance issued by the Department of Justice.
This agency-specific guidance shall detail how the general standards
established in the LEP Guidance will be applied to the agency's
recipients. The agency-specific guidance shall take into account the
types of services provided by the recipients, the individuals
served by the recipients, and other factors set out in the LEP Guidance.
Agencies that already have developed title VI guidance that the
Department of Justice determines is consistent with the LEP Guidance
shall examine their existing guidance, as well as their programs and
activities, to determine if additional guidance is necessary to comply
with this order. The Department of Justice shall consult with the
agencies in creating their guidance and, within 120 days of the date
of this order, each agency shall submit its specific guidance to the
Department of Justice for review and approval. Following approval by
the Department of Justice, each agency shall publish its guidance
document in the Federal Register for public comment.

Sec. 4. Consultations.

In carrying out this order, agencies shall ensure that
stakeholders, such as LEP persons and their representative
organizations, recipients, and other appropriate individuals or
entities, have an adequate opportunity to provide input. Agencies will
evaluate the particular needs of the LEP persons they and their
recipients serve and the burdens of compliance on the agency and its
recipients. This input from stakeholders will assist the agencies in
developing an approach to ensuring meaningful access by LEP persons
that is practical and effective, fiscally responsible, responsive to
the particular circumstances of each agency, and can be readily
implemented.

Sec. 5. Judicial Review.

This order is intended only to improve the internal management of
the executive branch and does not create any right or benefit,
substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or equity by a party
against the United States, its agencies, its officers or employees, or
any person.




WILLIAM J. CLINTON




THE WHITE HOUSE,
August 11, 2000.

Executive Order on Limited English Proficiency

ACTION NEEDED HERE!!!!

http://www.alipac.us/f8/alipac-amnes...lly-us-260062/

Great job US House of Representatives! Keep up the good work.

Originally Posted by Judy

Great job US House of Representatives! Keep up the good work.

I agree!

W

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