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EK: So you touched upon this a little bit earlier when we talked about how the legislation was created and passed with bipartisan support, yet, today, Washington is very polarized. It's kind of an either/or situation. Do you think something like this could happen today, could a program like this be passed?

BB: That's anyone's guess. It's hard to imagine it would be in today's environment because everyone has kind of gone to their own corners and to extremes. It seems like the stuff that we should all be agreeing upon, like infrastructure improvements... just hitting traffic on the way home tonight, we can't even get there. So personally... but I don't know what motivates people on different levels. So certainly this legislation was unique, it had many, many years of research associated with it. It had a compelling story about, that was right out in front of... there are national parks now, as you know, for the internment centers. It was something that happened, and everyone was aware of it, it has a unique story. I would hope that people come together today, but it's hard to imagine, as we sit here a year before our presidential election, that people could actually pass that in 2019, to me personally.

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