Common Sense English Act

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 111th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

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66 cosponsors · 4 D, 62 R

WAR Akin RBR Bartlett BBR Bilbray DBR Burton JBR Biggert MBR Blackburn GBR Bilirakis PBR Broun NDR Deal TFR Franks EGR Gallegly PGR Gingrey WHR Herger DHR Heller WJR Jones JJR Jordan JKR Kline FLR Lucas DLR Lamborn RLR Latta JMR Miller PMR McHenry KMR Marchant TPR Petri RPR Paul TPR Poe DRR Rohrabacher DRR Rehberg MSR Simpson BSR Shuster JSR Sullivan ASR Smith FWR Wolf LWR Westmoreland JBR Boozman JCR Campbell SMR Myrick JPR Pitts KMR McCarthy KCR Calvert JMD Marshall JAD Altmire VFR Foxx GMR Miller SGR Garrett RNR Neugebauer LGR Gohmert PHR Hoekstra RWR Wittman JGR Gresham Barrett MTR Thornberry ZWR Wamp RAR Aderholt JWR Wilson CCD Carney HBR Brown JBR Bonner TTR Tiahrt JCR Culberson SCR Capito LDD Davis SAR Austria RAR Alexander SJR Johnson MBR Bachmann TGR Graves

34 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 equal employment opportunity provisions of the Act, it is not an unlawful employment practice for an employer to require employees to speak English while engaged in work.