In Addition, our colleague Johanna Hayes, who represents the state of Connecticut and was the 2016 National Teacher of the Year, she has introduced a bill that would, in effect, reverse this executive order. We just need three Republican colleagues...to join us and protect students and teachers across the country by joining this piece of legislation. And we could avert the executive order's impact. So those are two ways in which we are responding. And we'll certainly have more to say here in the coming days. (17:20–17:33)
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