So I don't believe that it is going to be a good, the best use of our energy right now to try to get that done, because I don't know that it's going to get done right now. The way this Congress is composed and the way they have been treating civil rights issues, I'm hopeful, but I don't know that it's going to happen anytime soon. So I think part of it is we've got to think about now. And I was talking to this young woman about this now. (09:21–09:33)
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