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K-16 Critical Foreign Language Pipeline Act

Introduced: December 22, 2005 See on congress.gov
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Jul 24, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Jul 24, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
Dec 17, 2005
Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Dec 17, 2005
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

K-16 Critical Foreign Language Pipeline Act - Amends the David L. Boren National Security Education Act of 1991 to create a Critical Foreign Language Program.

Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide grants to five institutions of higher education to establish such program to collaborate with elementary schools and secondary schools for language learning pipelines to train students from kindergarten through college to be proficient in those foreign languages that the Secretary identifies as being the most critical in the interests of U.S. national security.

What's happening now July 24, 2006

Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 5
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 2
SNYDER, VICTOR
· Dec 22, 2005
 D
McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Dec 17, 2005
 D
Pallone, Frank
New Jersey · Dec 17, 2005
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4629: K-16 Critical Foreign Language Pipeline Act. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-4629/
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"H.R. 4629: K-16 Critical Foreign Language Pipeline Act." 109th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-4629/.
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H.R. 4629, 109th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-4629/.
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