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I’d have to go back…I’m not…I want to say 8 years; I want to say 8 years. I know
it was when speaker Gingrich, Newt Gingrich, who was a…actually my legislature here in
Georgia and we went to him to be a first sponsor. Back then it was called House Built 20-20.
We thought clear vision, we didn’t even plan it that way, but it’s one of my spiritual
things. Here we are the first time it was introduced it’s introduced by someone who
they didn’t think would introduce it. Now we chased him around…I mean we chased him
around until he would do it. But it shows you that if a constituency gets organized
and constituency says this is what your constituent want, they’ll do it. Did he work it? No.
If someone went to him today I’d be interested if he even recollects that he introduced it.
He might have because there were some confrontations in his office locally and at the federal level.
But nonetheless it started its road to passage that long ago and it’s going to take awhile
to get it through again. Right now it’s got bipartisan and some of the very same people
who supported ADA support MiCASA. So it’ll happen. It’s hard sometimes to stay faithful
and believe in it, but anyway.