Common Sense English Act

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 110th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

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112 cosponsors · 3 D, 109 R

WAR Akin RBR Baker JBR Boehner DBR Burton JBR Biggert MBR Blackburn ECR Cantor JCR Campbell JDR Doolittle DDR Davis TFR Feeney VFR Foxx VGR Goode PGR Gingrey LGR Gohmert WHR Herger DHR Hunter DHR Heller SJR Johnson WJR Jones BMR McKeon KMR Marchant CMR McMorris Rodgers TPR Petri RPR Paul TPR Platts HRR Rogers DRR Rohrabacher MSR Simpson TTR Tancredo LWR Westmoreland TWR Walberg DYR Young JBR Boozman GBR Brown-Waite TER Everett PHR Hoekstra JKR Kline SMR Myrick JMR Miller JPR Peterson DRR Rehberg BSR Shuster JGR Gresham Barrett JJR Jordan DLR Lamborn JDR Duncan RLR Lewis JCR Culberson WGR Gilchrest RKR Keller BSR Sali DWR Weldon FWR Wolf KCR Calvert FLR Lucas TMR McCotter RNR Neugebauer JPR Pitts FSR Sensenbrenner RWR Wittman RAR Alexander BBR Bilbray JBD Barrow SLR LaTourette ZWR Wamp RAR Aderholt SBR Bachus SCR Capito JAR Ann Emerson JFR Forbes MFR Fallin SGR Garrett PSR Sessions ASR Smith KCR Conaway NDR Deal SGR Graves JLR Linder JMR Moran JMD Marshall JSR Sullivan SCR Chabot TDR Drake TFR Franks RHR Hayes DMR Manzullo MMR McCaul FUR Upton RBR Bartlett HBR Brown JBR Bonner LDD Davis DHR Hastings PMR McHenry TPR Poe PTR Tiberi MBR Bachmann DCR Camp HCR Coble BCR Cubin JMR McHugh KMR McCarthy PBR Broun GDR Davis CPR Pickering GBR Bilirakis MPR Pence EGR Gallegly GMR Miller JCR Carter RLR Latta

33 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

Common Sense English Act - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to declare that, notwithstanding any other provision of the equal employment opportunities provisions of the Act, it is not an unlawful employment practice for an employer to require employees to speak English while engaged in work.