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On the recordApril 17, 2018
we can't eradicate all the evils in the world and a lot of people come to us and say, well, we made a mistake, we need to do better, but there are clearly systematic failings here in the United States Olympic Committee that need to be addressed, not just with kind of admonitions but making structural reforms, and you said, I think it was Ms. Bridie Farrell, one of you, that we have responsibility because it's on us, the U.S. Congress, which has oversight authority over the United States Olympic Committee, and so your stories and your admonitions and your testimony that this scourge is continuing are a mandate to us that we need to take steps to crack down.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal emphasizes the need for structural reforms in the U.S. Olympic Committee.

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