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Long-term unemployment is devastating for someone’s financial security, future job opportunities, and overall wellbeing—and it can take a toll on our economy as well.

They are the party of data centers. They are the party of fealty to the AI industry and this fakery that they are putting on the floor right now isn’t going to fool anybody. So they’re desperate.

If you wanted to get a stock ban done, you would put a stock ban on the floor.

These ads need to immediately come off the air, taxpayers need to be paid back for this theft, and everyone responsible needs to be held accountable for this corrupt and illegal propaganda.

These last two years have been just a cesspool of coercion. I’m not prepared to say that I know that there’s illegal activity here that will result in the revocation of contracts, but I do know that there’s all kinds of dirty conflicts of…

That will be the primary impact of this artificial cap on compensation, this massive antitrust exemption for colleges, I think it may well, in the end, be the unwinding of college sports.

Despite my bipartisan amendment to increase conference access, the legislation still does not adequately promote vigorous competition among teams and conferences and instead preserves the exclusive club of the current Power Four membership…

After all the years I’ve spent working on this issue, I could never for one minute trust the NCAA to police itself.

When Democrats reclaim control of Congress next year, the House Appropriations Committee will work to uncover and reverse misuses of taxpayer money like this and hold those who abused their power accountable.

We will continue to fight bad policies from Washington here in Connecticut with programs that help you access cleaner and more efficient vehicles that save you money and create less air pollution.

Today’s action by the federal government means Americans will see more trips to the gas station, more profits for big oil, dirtier air, and less efficient vehicles.

Federal fuel economy standards have received bipartisan support for more than 50 years because they save everyone money at the pump and we breathe cleaner air as a result—a clear win-win.

The way to save college sports was to admit that these kids provide an incredibly valuable service, as the Supreme Court has judged as well, and they deserve to be fairly compensated.

Students are not dumb. They're not going to sit in college sports with a cap on their earnings.

In the end, this bill, if it passes and becomes law, is actually going to be a long-term threat to college athletics.

We could have done what happens in most industries, which is just say to the NCAA and to the colleges, tough luck.

The bill does really nothing to stop the runaway overall costs of college athletics.

The crisis, it appears to me, is pretty simple: young athletes who perform a service that would be worth billions in the free market are finally getting what they lawfully deserve.