Cory Booker: “The stories are so compelling. These are veterans. These are folks that have been on their family farms since the…”

At its core, it’s a bill that undermines the rights of young people who pour their blood, sweat, tears, countless hours of work and more, into their craft.

That is a lie. The reality is, they don't need Congress' beneficent actions to give them NIL rights, they've earned them in the courts.

This is the kind of yahoo cowboy foreign policy that has mired us in Middle Eastern war after Middle Eastern war. With false bravado, we are saying we’re just going to go in there and kick ass.

That's what frustrates me — we have a bill that's going to protect the wealth and the gravy train for a lot of folks but puts burdens on college athletes.