Richard Blumenthal: “We must take proactive steps to prevent outages and protect our communities.”

“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.”

It fails to provide for adequate enforcement.

It’s illogical, illegal, intolerable — and that’s in effect what the court found.

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…