Hakeem Jeffries

And so I thought it was a fundamental mistake that they even brought this bill to the floor.

And again, there was Democratic opposition and Republican opposition to it, which is why they ultimately pulled the plug.

I'm surprised I didn't get a thank you note from Lane Kiffin after I made that statement.

But you know what's interesting?

I've had, from time to time,

legendary figures, including Coach Saban, have come up to the Hill to kind of talk about the need for Congress to step in and at least create one set of rules, one standard, so you don't have 50 states kind of all doing different things.

I support that.

I think that makes total sense.

But at the same period of time, it's got to be done in a way that is consistent with our values and doesn't allow a handful of major conferences or major schools within those conferences to run over everyone else.

And that was sort of our problem.

It's clear.

Look, we can have a situation where things are left totally unregulated, and that leads to the Pony Express situation, which was out of control.

Yeah, so we launched what we call a discharge petition a few weeks ago that allows any individual member of Congress, there are 435 of us, to sign a petition that would force a vote

on a particular piece of legislation.

In this instance, a three year straightforward extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits so we can protect the health care of tens of millions of folks all across the country.

We've got earlier today 218 signatures, which was a big development.

Now that does force the speaker to bring the bill to the floor.

However, under the rules, he has a total of seven legislative days to do it, which means that the earliest that this is our last week scheduled to be in session before the holiday recess, which means that there will be a vote.

But the earliest that the vote can be under the rules would be

in January, unless the speaker decides to bring it to the floor today or tomorrow, which he could do.