Thanks to your efforts, your Congressman is now an official co-sponsor!

View the list of H.R. 997 co-sponsors

This official English bill was introduced with 60 original co-sponsors, but now the bill has 93*! (*Rep. Dean Heller is listed as a House co-sponsor but he has since filled the Senate seat of former-Senator John Ensign, R-Nevada.)

If passed and signed into law, the English Language Unity Act of 2011 will:

• Make English the official language of the United States.

• Require that naturalization/citizenship ceremonies are conducted in English.

• Set the framework for uniform testing of English language ability for candidates for naturalization.

TAKE ACTION!

Just as we encourage you to tell your elected officials when they do something wrong, your Member of Congress greatly appreciates it when you recognize them for doing the right thing!

Please take a moment to call or email your representative for cosponsoring this important bill today! Let them know that their good act hasn't gone unnoticed!

Capitol Switchboard:

(202) 224-3121

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ProEnglish is a self-governing project of U.S., Inc., a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and the nation's leading advocate of official English. We work through the courts and in the court of public opinion to defend English's historic role as America's common, unifying language, and to persuade lawmakers to adopt English as the official language at all levels of government.