Timothy Roemer: “I offer this amendment in a bipartisan spirit with the gentleman from California (Mr. Riggs), my friend, and I offer it…”

“I offer this amendment in a bipartisan spirit with the gentleman from California (Mr. Riggs), my friend, and I offer it to eliminate language in the bill that is a Federal mandate to our colleges and universities that is an intrusion into the way they conduct their business on a day-to-day basis and micromanages from Washington, D.C. schools across the country telling them how they should run their sports programs. Now, we have heard constantly through the last couple of years that Washington, D.C. does not know best. Why is there language in this bill telling colleges and universities throughout the country the Washington way of running their sports programs? Now, I encourage my colleagues and their staffs to read the language in the bill on page 246, and I quote from that language: We are requiring in this language a statement of any reduction that may or is likely to occur during the next four academic years in the number of athletes that will be permitted to participate in any collegiate sport or in the financial resources that the institution will make available to any such sport, and the reasons for any such reduction.”