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On the recordJanuary 28, 2023
I'm always hesitant to get Congress involved in a problem, because you usually end up with a solution you don't like. But the problem that the conferences, the athletic conferences, are facing now, they're all multi-state conferences. And every state is passing a different law with different rules. And so there's no consistency for any of the conferences. And so I think there is a need for a federal law that standardizes this, so it's a level playing field.
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Robert Gates
Republican · Texas

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Gates discusses the need for federal intervention to standardize laws across multi-state college athletic conferences.

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