Rep. Jimmy Patronis (R-FL) announced Thursday that he will introduce legislation to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename the body of water.

Patronis’s bill, which he posted to social media, would require any reference to the Great Lake in law, regulation, document, paper, or record of the United States to refer to Lake Ontario as Lake America. 

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