Students are not dumb. They're not going to sit in college sports with a cap on their earnings.
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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.
The facts don't back up that characterization of college sports…I know that there's more people than ever showing up to these games and watching the games.
This is unacceptable, and our bill holds the Netanyahu government accountable for its illegal, reckless, and inhumane actions in the West Bank.
Disaster relief should have never been held up over partisan politics.
This award is a critical investment in the North Coast’s ability to be resilient in the face of disasters.
Ensuring that Oregon’s coastal communities have access to health care in the wake of natural disasters is absolutely essential.
This grant funding is long overdue for Columbia Memorial Hospital and everyone who lives on or visits the Oregon Coast.
You can’t wait for a disaster to happen to start preparing, and this funding finally moving forward will be transformative for disaster resiliency along the North Coast.
Over the past 20 months, Republicans have continuously bent the knee, kissed the ring, and handed Donald Trump more power and authority on a silver platter.
For Donald Trump, billion-dollar ballrooms are full speed ahead. Money for schools—cut.
This move is an illegal power grab by the Trump Administration—plain and simple.
We write to call on you to abandon any plan to exert political control over NIH’s grant-making decisions.
Congress must step in to establish guardrails to protect American biomedical science.
Injecting political interference into the NIH grantmaking process will irreparably harm America’s biomedical research enterprise, override scientific expertise, and potentially set back lifesaving medical breakthroughs by decades.