Georgia's freshman Sen. David Perdue has now spent a year-and-a-half in Washington's most exclusive club. The Republican says he's the same political outsider he's always been, but staying out the political fray has become a lot more challenging now that his star has risen.

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Rebecca Ramage-Tuttle, assistant director of the Statewide Independent Living Council of Georgia, says the the DOE rule change is “a slippery slope” for civil rights. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)

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