Hakeem Jeffries

Just let the ACC change their rules so that you have the best two teams, the highest-ranked two teams in America.

Yeah, well, listen, I mean, I think sports is such an important part of life, particularly during these complicated times where we're dealing with so many heavy issues.

that to be able to have that kind of escape for everybody, root for your team, whether it's the college that you went to, the college that's in your hometown, or of course the sports teams that we all fall in love with at a very early age and then continue to track.

So even for us as members of Congress, we all have our team affiliations and we lean into that.

And it's a release, I think, for all of us who are working through these very challenging dynamics that we're faced with in this country right now.

But the Lane Kiffin Protection Act, I mean, that was interesting to me.

I'm thinking to myself, we got all of these issues that we're trying to deal with, including, of course, extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits so that tens of millions of Americans, and we're talking about

People all across the country, rural America, urban America, suburban America, small town America, the heartland of America.

We're talking about Republicans and Democrats and independents.

Like this is not a partisan fight.

This is the patriotic thing for us to do.

Make sure healthcare is not ripped away from tens of millions of Americans.

We have a clock ticking on the expiration of these tax credits the end of this month.

And Mike Johnson, you know, who I've had a

forward-looking relationship with communicative relationship with my counterpart, the Speaker of the House, who just happens to be connected to LSU,

The week after this whole Lane Kiffin debacle occurs, they bring the SCORE Act to the floor and it's deeply flawed.

The players unions all are opposed to it, led by the NFL Players Association.

It doesn't necessarily provide college athletes with, you know, the type of compensation structure that I think many of us believe would be fair at this moment in time.

It does nothing to rein in, you know,

outlaw behavior by some of the college coaches that we've seen, but would constrain the ability of college athletes to really earn what they should be earning or negotiate safe, healthy working conditions as they're playing these major sports.