“We need to stop stealing money out of college [and] university institutions for education, for tuition, for professors, and putting it into an arms race on sports. … But compensation on revenue sharing is probably the most important thing we could possibly enshrine in federal law today. This is [Congress] saying, for the first time, that an athlete gets a percentage of the media rights, the ticket sales and the sponsorship.
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“This legislation is historic in the fact that it puts into law 12 — more than a dozen I should say — important provisions that help athletes and protect them for the future. … More improvements, more votes!
“We think it's part of the equation, we don't think it's the whole story. It's getting the federal government to start playing a larger role and being more prepared and understanding the risk assessment landscape and what the federal government should be doing in that environment.
“This bill brings order to [college sports]. It helps women and Olympic sports, and it sets up a commission to look at the real future, which I think should include collective bargaining. … Let's bring some sanity. Recognize that athletes do deserve revenue sharing, and that this bill will put that into law for the first time.
“Today's Supreme Court decision gets the Trump Administration one step closer to implementing its voter suppression order.
“Today, the Supreme Court's conservative majority overturned a 91-year-old precedent and once again delivers for President Trump. Congress created independent agencies to shield critical decisions from short-term partisan whims and to ensure bipartisan and well-reasoned decision making. By gutting these protections, the Supreme Court is throwing the door open for politics – not the public interest – to be the guiding star for future decisions. Congress must take action to preserve the ability for agencies to deliver expert, fact-based results for the American people.
“The campaign against Disney and its editorial decision-making, culminating in last week's early-renewal order, is an egregious abuse of power and a clear violation of the First Amendment.