Good morning. The committee on health education, labor and pensions will please come to order. First i would like to go through a few administrative matters that weve adopted because of covid. Weve consulted with the attending physician and the department of health and human services, centers for disease control. Individuals in the hearing room are six feet apart. Theres no room for the public in person. The press is covering as a pool. You can watch this on streaming or there will be an unedited recording that everyone can watch. All of our Witnesses Today and some senators are participating by video conference. I would like to Say Something about masks. The office of attending physician has advised that senators and witnesses may remove their masks to talk into the microphones since our chairs are six feet apart. So, thats why my mask is off. When im not back here, im wearing my mask in the hall. Im grateful to the rules committee, the sergeant at arms, the press gallery, the arkt te
To a Senate Committee hearing looking at college ath lecks and athlete compensation. Live coverage on cspan 3. But in the institutions of Higher Education themselves, and then before that in 1929 a report from the carnegie education was being neglected and commercialism reigned. The ncaa had been formed to protect the safety of players and deal with corruption. Now, my second experience forming an opinion about the subject were talking about today came from my service of that Night Commission when i was president of the university of tennessee. Our Commission Recommendation was that University President s take charge, assert themselves, take charge of College Athletics, to take charge of the huge amount of Television Money it attracted and restore academic and financial integrity to the programs. As a result over the next several years academic standards became more stringent, Financial Support for student athletes increased, college presence asserted more responsibility for financial
Enough is enough is enough is enough. So i want to be really clear that what happened to Breonna Taylor was part and parcel and pattern of the war that is waging in our lives and weve got to Start Talking about it. Reporter for these women, what happened to taylor is extremely personal and staying silent is not an option. I wont tell you our lives matter. You know our lives matter. So what we need to garner is the power to demonstrate that our lives matter. This gathering came after hundreds of people marched through down oakland hours after the grand Jury Announcement in kentucky. So far in oakland, the protests around the Breonna Taylor decision have been entirely peaceful. Wednesday night, police say there were no arrests and no reports of damage. Some demonstrators did walk on to interstate 980 for a time. Protesters and car caravans vowed to take their message to bay area bridges and even airports. Its a time to provide safe places and safe spaces for the freedom of speech. For th
Could send coronavirus cases surging. The grim prediction about the death count, plus, rising cases at universities and this morning, how some drugmakers will join forces to make sure only a safe vaccine is approved. Hand sanitizer warning. The mother who says she was burned after using an off brand product. Then lighting a candle. And then the explosion happened that in a matter of two seconds lit my entire body on fire. What the cdc is saying about incidents like this. And back on the gridiron. College football returning with new Safety Measures in place. How the action will look different and the new testing that could be a game changer. But will we get through an entire season . Hey, good morning. Happy saturday. Were very happy to have whit back at the desk after a vacation. Good to be back. Welcome back, my friend. Were going to start here with the overnight breaking news. Protests on both sides of the country. Portland, oregon marking 100 days with calls for social justice and r
Wisconsin, pennsylvania, and arizona. Ncaa officials, university leaders, and armor student athletes testified to a senate panel about the benefits and challenges of allowing College Athletic programs and athletes to profit from the use of their name, image, or likeness. They also talked about the impact of the coronavirus on College Sports. I had to participate in the environment and public works committee. We have a quirky rule in the if in our committees you want to vote no by proxy, that counts. If you want to vote yes by proxy, that doesnt count, so i had to be there in person. We cannot get started. Are you ready . Thank you so much. This hearing will come to order. Convenes toommittee discuss the issue of compensating student athletes for the use of their name, image, and likeness and il nil. I welcome our panel of witnesses and thank them for. We will hear from the vice chancellor Intercollegiate Athletics from university of mississippi, my alma mater, where a letter in zero sp