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You gotta f**king love the Senate. Snopes explains:

This amendment was passed the next day by a vote of 62-35, which is the vote referred to in the e-mail message quoted above. However, the message errs in stating that 38 senators voted against the amendment — 35 senators (all of them Democrats, save for one Republican and one Independent) voted "Nay," and 3 senators (two Republicans and one Democrat) did not vote at all. (Also, the version we received is missing one name, as Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, who also voted against the amendment, is not listed.)

The issue became even more complicated when, half an hour after amendment 4064 was passed, the Senate voted on amendment 4073. This amendment sought to "Declare that English is the common and unifying language of the United States, and to preserve and enhance the role of the English language." The relevant section of the amendment (as passed) read as follows:
The Government of the United States shall preserve and enhance the role of English as the common and unifying language of America. Nothing herein shall diminish or expand any existing rights under the law of the United States relative to services or materials provided by the Government of the United States in any language other than English.

For the purposes of this section, law is defined as including provisions of the United States Code and the United States Constitution, controlling judicial decisions, regulations, and controlling Presidential Executive Orders.
In other words, this amendment contradicted the previously passed amendment by declaring that English was to be regarded as "the common and unifying language of America" (rather than the "national language of the United States of America"), and that whatever obligations the federal government had to provide or honor documents and services in languages other than English should remain unchanged. This amendment also passed, by a vote of 58-39. (No Democrats voted against this amendment, although 14 Republicans and one Independent voted in favor of it.) Altogether, 22 senators voted in favor of both amendments, making it difficult to determine exactly where they stood on the "official language" question.