Sam Brownback: “I am pleased to reintroduce today with Senator McCain, the Amateur Sports Integrity Act. This legislation combats…”

“I am pleased to reintroduce today with Senator McCain, the Amateur Sports Integrity Act. This legislation combats performance enhancing drugs use by athletes, as well as the corruptive influence of legal gambling on high school, college, and amateur sports. The Amateur Sports Integrity Act serves two purposes. First, it combats the use of performance enhancing drugs by athletes through the creation a new grant program to be administered by the National Institute of Science and Technology. This program will support research on the use of performance-enhancing drugs, and methods of detecting their use. Quite simply, Mr. President, we need to find out who's cheating and how they're doing it so we can disqualify their dishonorable efforts to compete. The Act will achieve this goal. Our legislation will also ban the continued and unseemly practice of legal wagering on high school, college, and amateur sports at the expense of the achievements of our nation's student and amateur athletes.”