Richard Blumenthal

Will you commit today, Mr. Price, that the PGA Tour will not punish any members who criticize the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or human rights anywhere, regardless of this new relationship with PIF?

But there is something that stinks about this path that you are on right now because it is a surrender, and it is all about the money, and that is the reason for the backlash that you have seen.

I am betting--because I never want to bet against America--that America will be on your side, thick or thin.

But as you well know, antitrust law, consumer protection law, many other laws involve protection of public interests and individual interests because the public interest demands it.

The PGA Tour has a major impact on our economy, our way of life, our image in this country, our self-image, and our image abroad.

Congress' authority to investigate here and investigate golf comes from Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution.

I would like to have a commitment from both of you that the final agreement will not prevent players or PGA Tour executives from commenting on or criticizing actions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

But will you commit that it will not have it, that you will not agree to it if it does?

Instead of accepting this amount of money--call it an investment, call it financing--from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, did you explore other sources of potential investment?

What other sources of funding did you explore?

Are you bound by the non-disparagement clause that is very specifically stated in the agreement?

What is the amount of the Saudi investment that is going to be made?

You decided to take the financing and the investment from Saudi Arabia for this new entity that would also incorporate the PGA Tour. Correct?

I would join you in a bipartisan effort to make those facts more available.

I have the deepest sympathy for the families of 9/11 and support their efforts of obtaining information currently being withheld by the United States and Saudi governments.

To have them taken over by a repressive foreign regime certainly is a matter of our national security.

I will continue to support the PGA Tour. Just make no mistake--as I said before, America is on your side.

We will continue this inquiry because I think uncovering more of the facts and shining a spotlight on what is really happening here is in the national interest and part of our obligation.

It should not be about the money, the disruption, the uneconomic offers.

We are going to continue this inquiry. We are going to ask that the other potential witnesses that we invited actually come and share their perspectives and information.

We are here because the regime, an autocratic, repressive regime, is torturing, imprisoning, killing its own people.

Senator Cornyn and I led the effort--it is called Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA)--to enable those families to go to court.

If we are going to be selling out to countries that can throw around hundreds of billions of dollars, we are going to lose, not just financially.

In other words, their interest was public image, sportswashing, cleansing their reputation. Correct?

They have a lot of money.