I believe we would. And I certainly would be prepared to aggressively advocate it and pursue it. You never know until you go to the individual Senators and work with them and try to get their agreement to go forward with it. I would not want to be the Senator on either side of the aisle who stands in the way of this major piece of education legislation.
Discussing the importance of bipartisan support for education legislation.
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