S.Amdt. 3397

SA 3397. Mr. SESSIONS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 3192 submitted by Mr. Specter (for himself, Mr. Leahy,
and Mr. Hagel) to the bill S. 2454, to amend the Immigration and
Nationality Act to provide for comprehensive reform and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

Strike subsection 644(b)(3) and insert:
(3) English and history and government requirements.--
Section 312(a) is amended to read as follows:
``(a) No person except as otherwise provided in this title
shall hereafter be naturalized as a citizen of the United
States upon his own application who cannot demonstrate--
``(1) an understanding of the English language on an eighth
grade level, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the
Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the
Secretary of State; and
``(2) a knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of
the history, and of the principles and form of government of
the United States, as demonstrated by receiving a passing
score on a standardized test administered by the Secretary of
the Department of Homeland Security of not less than 50
randomly selected questions from a database of not less than
1000 questions developed by the Secretary.''.
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