John Mica: “If worse comes to worst and we can't get it for Miami-Dade College, then we have to get this off the taxpayer deficit…”

We tried to get them to comply, but they never did fully comply.

Again, if you don't have communication, I mean, when they couldn't communicate--and we held funds up a couple of times. I think I participated in that to get your attention.

The bipartisan cooperation has been very effective in moving this forward.

Fifteen years later, we see a system that has not complied with the laws that we have passed multiple times.