… middle of them, D.C. was proposing, the D.C. school district was proposing throwing out of school any child that was not vaccinated. And at the time, if I remember correctly, It was something like 40% of the African American students in D.C. were not vaccinated. So they were talking about literally throwing out 40% of the kids at public school. And so I had a vote on the Senate floor to say, look, they can't throw kids out of school for this. (25:42–25:48)
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Asserts that approximately 40% of African American students in D.C. were unvaccinated.
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