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The Associated Press
legislation that would require the state driver's exam to be given
in English only.
The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee voted 5-4 Thursday to
carry over the legislation. The committee voted by the same margin
to carry over a companion bill that would have required government
agencies to use "English only" in documents unless a federal or
state law required more than English.
The bill's sponsor, Republican Sen. Scott Beason of Gardendale,
said the decision effectively kills the bills because little time
remains in the legislative session.
Beason says the bills would unify Alabamians around one language, but Democratic Sen. Vivian Davis Figures of Mobile compared them to former Gov. George Wallace's stand in the schoolhouse door in 1963.

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Senator Figures should have to pay for all signs to be printed in the languages of her choice. Of course, she better get started soon. She may not finish them by the time we vote to replace her.