CONTENTS

STATEMENTS OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Hatch, Hon. Orrin G., a U.S. Senator from the State of Utah.....
Denton, Hon. Jeremiah, a U.S. Senator from the State of Alabama.
DeConcini, Hon. Dennis, a U.S. Senator from the State of Arizona.

PROPOSED LEGISLATION

S.J. Res. 167, a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution

of the United States with respect to the English language

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

Huddleston, Hon. Walter D., a U.S. Senator from the State of Kentucky

Burdick, Hon. Quentin N., a U.S. Senator from the State of North Dakota........

Symms, Hon. Steven D., a U.S. Senator from the State of Idaho............

Hayakawa, Hon. S.I., a former U.S. Senator from the State of California........

Shumway, Hon. Norman D., a U.S. Representative from the State of Califor-

nia, and Hon. Baltasar Corrada, a U.S. Representative from Puerto Rico.......

Bikales, Gerda, Executive Director, U.S. English, Washington, DC, and Ar-

noldo S. Torres, National Executive Director, the League of United Latin

American Citizens, Washington, DC......

ALPHABETICAL LIST AND MATERIAL SUBMITTED

Bikales, Gerda:

Testimony

103

Prepared statement........

106

Letters from:

Surendra K. Saxena, president, the Association of Indians in Amer-

ica, Inc., to Joseph E. Fallon, October 25, 1983.......

113

Marie J. Iribarren, secretary, Kern County League Basque Club,

January 10, 1984.....

114

Steve Workings, Government Relations Associate, U.S. English, to

Senator Orrin G. Hatch, chairman, Subcommittee on the Constitu-

tion, October 15, 1984....

115

"Peace, Friendship, Limits, and Settlement" (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidal-

go), reprinted by U.S. English.

116

Testimony on fiscal year 1984 appropriations for bilingual education.....

Presentation to 1984 Republican Platform Committee by U.S. English,

April 17, 1984......

126

128

Excerpts from Up-Date, a periodic publication of U.S. English, volume II,

No. 3, June-July 1984:

Up-Date...........

141

Testimony presented at hearings on the English amendment, June

12, 1984

143

"Ideas" by Richard Kahlenberg from Harvard Political Review, spring

1984 ....

Page

Bikales, Gerda-Continued

""Temporary' Bilingual Education Lives On,'" from the Washington
Times, August 18, 1983......

149

"The Swiss, the U.S, and Language Unity," from the Christian Science

Monitor, September 12, 1984.

Burdick, Senator Quentin: Testimony

Corrada, Baltasar:

Testimony.

Prepared statement

Hatch, Senator Orrin G.:

"Legal Analysis of H.J. Res. 169 proposing an amendment to the U.S.

Constitution to make English the official language of the United

States," by Charles Dale, legislative attorney, American Law Division,

Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress, June 27, 1983.

"What a School Was," by Abraham H. Lass from the New York Times,
April 16, 1983....

"ELA: Making English the Official Language," by Nadine Cohodas, from

the Congressional Quarterly, October 22, 1983.....

"English Spoken Here Please," by Jonathan Alter, from Newsweek, Jan-
uary 9, 1984

"Voting in English," by William Raspberry, from the Washington Post,
March 15, 1984

"Aqui se Habla Ingles," from the Washington Times, April 4, 1984 ......

"You'll Be a Nobody if They Didn't Make You Learn English," by Gerda

Bikales, from the Christian Science Monitor, April 20, 1983.......

"The Mother Tongue Has a Movement," by Francis X. Clines, from the

New York Times, June 3, 1984.

100

101

102

Hayakawa, S.I.:

Testimony

Prepared statement

Letters to:

Dear Friend, from S.I. Hayakawa

Marion Faldet, the Spencer Foundation, September 27, 1984.

Commentaries by Guy Wright:

"U.S. English," from the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle,

March 20, 1983......

"Speaking English," from the San Francisco Examiner, March 28,

1983.......

Huddleston, Walter D.:

Testimony....

Memo from Angela Evans, June 6, 1984.

Article from the Congressional Record, "Constitutional Amendment to

Make English the Official Language of the United States," September

21, 1983.....

Letters:

Helen Wong Jean, executive secretary for Chinese Civic Council,

April 23, 1984...........

S.I. Hayakawa, August 27, 1984.

Charles V. Dale, Legislative Attorney, American Law Division, legal

analysis of Senate Joint Resolution 167 proposing an amendment

to the U.S. Constitution to make English the official language of

the United States, Congressional Research Service, the Library of

Congress.....

"Proposed Constitutional Amendment," from the Congressional Record,
March 2, 1983........

Letter from Michael Blichasz, president, Polish American Congress, Inc.,
Eastern Pennsylvania District, February 6, 1984

Symms, Steven D.:

Testimony......
Prepared statement
Torres, Arnoldo S.:

Testimony.......

Prepared statement