Richard Blumenthal: “That's a challenge that has to be addressed, in my view and, I think, perhaps others, perhaps yours as well.”

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…

After all the years I’ve spent working on this issue, I could never for one minute trust the NCAA to police itself.

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

“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.”