I invite you to do the same thing I have invited Dr. Waldman to do, which is, where there are gaps, or, for that matter, where there are enforcement issues, please alert us.

I cannot imagine dealing every day with violence against, abuse against children. It is just horrifying and very hard to listen to or contemplate, and I salute you for doing what you are doing and protecting children.

This is ridiculous and will expose institutions to massive new liabilities and much higher costs.

As is typical in the Biden administration, the National Labor Relations Board wants to take something we all love, hyper regulate it, and make it more expensive.

Employee status will hurt student-athletes too as they will have less freedom, lower educational standards and revoked, or even taxed scholarships if they become employees.

There is currently legislation, both on the House and Senate side from both parties, called the Invest in Child Safety Act, which would give law enforcement more tools to put bad actors behind bars.

We are potentially less protected as we go into 2024, in terms of the security of our elections, than we were during 2020.

I invite you to provide us a list of those gaps because we would be glad to work on filling those legislative gaps.

So good for parents, so good for kids, so good for childcare workers, great for the economy.

The Federal Government must be a partner in that effort.

You could not pay me a million dollars a month to have your job.

We want our kids to have the greatest opportunity to build the character we need to have the kind of preventing Americans we need down the road.

Most underprivileged student-athletes are on full scholarship, as football and basketball players, predominantly.

Let us say you had to pay them 400 bucks a week times 500 student-athletes, that is $200,000.00 a week.

I am grateful that we are gathered here today to highlight a sensitive but very deeply troubling subject.

Now is not the time to scare our students with highly unlikely, worst-case scenarios and bad faith exaggerations of the impacts that this recent NLRB decision will have on collegiate sports.

I believe we can find ways to protect the interests of student-athletes and their universities without distorting their relationship and changing the nature of college athletics.

It is abundantly clear the NLRB would rather pander to unions than prioritize the well-being of student-athletes.