Maria Cantwell: “Violence against women is not just a problem in the United States; it's a challenge around the world.”

It is deeply troubling that now more than half of local elections officials worry about the safety of their colleagues, and a third have experienced threats or abuse.

We need to stop stealing money out of college [and] university institutions for education, for tuition, for professors, and putting it into an arms race on sports.

But compensation on revenue sharing is probably the most important thing we could possibly enshrine in federal law today.

We also believe in a health and safety standard in federal law, one that protects the athletes beyond the way the law works today and gives them the right to sue and hold these people accountable for any kind of health and safety…