We appreciate your arguments today, thank you. The court may call the next case. Over the next few hours we will show you congressional hearings on professional and student athletics. Up next house hearing from brain injuries from football, hockey and other sports. Then we will look at scholarships, sex assaults and whether student athletes should be paid. Earlier in year a House Sub Committee looked into brain injuries from football, hockey and other sports. Officials with the nfl and National Hockey league talked about how their industries address the issue. We will also hear from professional and student athletes. This hearing is about three hours. All right. I want to thank everyone for being here. We are now at the full Committee Ranking member, the gentleman from california joins us. We now have the ability to start our hearing. So ill introduce you after my statement and before you start your testimonies. So ill open with my opening statement. Morning jan. So good morning and we
Then we will look at scholarships, sex assaults and whether student athletes should be paid. Earlier in year a House Sub Committee looked into brain injuries from football, hockey and other sports. Officials with the nfl and National Hockey league talked about how their industries address the issue. We will also hear from professional and student athletes. This hearing is about three hours. All right. I want to thank everyone for being here. We are now at the full Committee Ranking member, the gentleman from california joins us. We now have the ability to start our hearing. So ill introduce you after my statement and before you start your testimonies. So ill open with my opening statement. Morning jan. So good morning and welcome to this mornings hearing. Today its my hope to learn what steps are being taken to make Sports Participation safer for all athletes. Every day parents make choices about whether or not to let their son or let their daughter play soccer or what kind of mouth pi
And how best to go about changing our game to reflect that. So thats how we ended up adding creating a unified concussion protocol and returntoplay protocol for our sideline. Thats how we ended up with additional concussion experts on the sideline. This is based on the advice of outsiders who tell us this is the best way to handle your players, this is the best way to treat the game, and if you want a culture of safety, this is what you would do. We followed their advice strictly and meet with them very frequently. I noticed your title is Senior Vice President of health and safety policy. Is that position thats got to be a position that didnt exist 20 years ago. It did not exist 20 years ago. Im proud to be in that role. Its an exciting one. I know this hearing is on concussions, but since youre here, i got to ask you one other question that may be a little different topic. Over the last few years, ive communicated with the nfl about my concerns about the issue of Human Growth Hormone
Inauguration. She comes back and shes disappointed in lincoln. By the 1865 inaugural, shes singing his praises. Shes one of the most eloquent of all and intelligent and thoughtful of all the abolitionists, male and female. Thats a good point. Thanks for pointing that out. I thank you for your attention. This weekend, we continue our fourday book tv and American History tv programming. Saturday at 10 00 eastern on book tvs afterwards, the history of the Birth Control pill and sunday at 11 00, bill nye the science guy. And an American History tv on cspan 3, saturday night, just before 9 00, George Washington and Benedict Arnold and sunday afternoon at 4 00, a glimpse of American Life between 1914 to 1930 from henry fords film collection. Find our complete schedule at cspan. Org or call us. Email us or send us a tweet. Like us op facebook. Follow us on twitter. Next, authors and historians discuss the impact and significance of the 1864 president ial election that took place in the midst
The normal way to start off a panel is to let each of the panelists have an opportunity to comment on what they have heard each other say. Before we go to general questions, does anybody want to comment on anybody elses talk before we turn to the questions from the audience . Well, its, i think, pretty clear from johns talk that john and i have a little bit of a different take on a couple of things. But here is one of the things that i will argue. Sure. I dont think that the soldiers becoming republicans or how they voted is hol wholly to down. I think its more of a bottom up experience. Sheer what i think happens. Here is my theory on this. Is that the 1862 election does not go well for republicans, but it goes very well for copperheads. By that time, i think that is a wakeup call for the soldiers that this group that has been railing against the war and against lincoln, rather than being this fringe group that i think the soldiers and many other people had regarded them as, the soldi