Richard Blumenthal: “What I see in--what I see here today is, the investments we make are going to shape the future.”

Sen. Blackburn and I will fight as long and hard as necessary to pass this bill.

It fails to provide for adequate enforcement.

“After all those horrific deaths and public outcry, we were told DHS was going to change,” he said. “Again and again, those promises were proven false.”

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…