Robert Gates: “I'm always hesitant to get Congress involved in a problem, because you usually end up with a solution you don't like.…”

“I'm always hesitant to get Congress involved in a problem, because you usually end up with a solution you don't like. But the problem that the conferences, the athletic conferences, are facing now, they're all multi-state conferences. And every state is passing a different law with different rules. And so there's no consistency for any of the conferences. And so I think there is a need for a federal law that standardizes this, so it's a level playing field.”