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Rally in support of teachers gather in Frankfort to protest the recent pension bill. Many Kentucky educators have vowed to vote out lawmakers who supported the pension bill, which Republican Gov. Although the governor indicated that the Kentucky Education Association is the problem, not average teachers, his comments angered and united many educators. A lot is online, sharing things and also talking at school,” Foudray said of teachers’ recent political organizing. “Education issues cut across party in a way few social welfare policies do,” he said. Voss also noted that government workers’ unions have stayed strong in recent years. The night the pension bill passed in Frankfort, Gray said she was there with other concerned teachers and noticed a Republican representative who came out after the vote to where they were demonstrating and “smirked.” “You’re creating an enemy that you do not need to create,” she said of such behavior. “I think there was a lot of frustration specifically with the teachers' unions and I think sometimes that came across as frustration with teachers, which it wasn’t," Watson said of Republican officials' comments during recent debates. Potential pitfalls If teachers want to vote out incumbent legislators who supported the pension bill or cuts to public education, Voss indicated that it’s vital for them to avoid alienating other voters. They organized those disruptions well, timing the demonstrations to when legislators were in Frankfort making decisions that impact public education.

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) would not outline leadership's plan b for an immigration bill if the conservative measure that is currently being whipped in the House can’t get enough support to pass. “At the end of the day, we want to have a solution," he said at a press briefing. Conservatives say that the only solution is Goodlatte's bill that provides a temporary, renewable legal status — not citizenship — for hundreds of thousands of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. House GOP leaders said they would begin whipping the bill on Wednesday, fulfilling a promise to the House Freedom Caucus to build support for the legislation. The Senate is scrambling this week to come up with a bipartisan solution for the Obama-era DACA, which protects young immigrants who came to the country illegally as children. But it's far from clear that a resolution will be reached in the Senate. President Trump rescinded the program and gave Congress until March 5 to come up with a permanent legal fix, though court rulings have so far blocked the administration’s move. “We clearly need to address this issue in March.” Complicating the DACA issue is that Ryan has long promised conservatives that he would only put an immigration measure on the House floor if it has a majority of the GOP’s support. Whatever DACA bill comes out of the Senate, if any, is likely to take a far more narrow approach since it needs to have the support of nine Democrats to overcome a filibuster. “What we always want to do in the House is have a House Republican position, so we which can start from for negotiations,” he said.