H.R.2899: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt certain elderly persons from demonstrating an understanding of the English language and the history, principles, and form of government of the United States as a requirement for naturalization, and to permit certain other elderly persons to take the history and government examination in a language of their choice.

Bill Cosponsors

32 (31 Democrats, 2 Republicans)

• Patsy T. Mink (D-Hawaii)
• Maurice D. Hinchey (D-N.Y.)
• Jim McGovern (D-Mass.)
• Rubén Hinojosa (D-Texas)
• Howard L. Berman (D-Calif.)
• Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas)
• Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)
• Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.)
• Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.)
• Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)
• Barney Frank (D-Mass.)
• Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.)
• John F. Tierney (D-Mass.)
• Bob Filner (D-Calif.)
• Luis V. Gutiérrez (D-Ill.)
• Pete Stark (D-Calif.)
• Michael E. Capuano (D-Mass.)
• Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.)
• Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
• Christopher H. Shays (R-Conn.)
• Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.)
• Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.)
• Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.)
• Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii)
• John W. Olver (D-Mass.)
• Tom Lantos (D-Calif.)
• Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.)
• Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.)
• Major R. Owens (D-N.Y.)
• Nita M. Lowey (D-N.Y.)
• Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.)
• Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.)

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