Mr. Poe mr. Speaker, i move to brulls and pass s. 534, the suspend the rules and pass s. 534, the protecting young victims from sexual abuse and safe sport authorization act of 2017, as amended. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk senate 534, a bill to prevent the sexual abuse of minors and amateur athletes by requiring the prompt reporting of sexual abuse to Law Enforcement authorities, and or other purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from texas, mr. Poe, and the gentlewoman from texas, ms. Jackson lee, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. Mr. Poe mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and , include ir remarks extraneous materials on s. 534, currently under consideration. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Poe thank you, mr. Speaker. I yield myself five minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is
Has launched an investigation into Michigan State and the entire board of directors of usa gymnastics is resigning after team dr. Larry nassar was sentenced up to 175 years in prison for Sexual Assaulting and abusing more than 160 young female athletes. That as abundantly clear full and complete investigation of what happened at Michigan State university from the president s office down, is required. This investigation is and will. Ontinue to be independent it will be thorough. And it be transparent will be prompt. Amy we will talk to reporter the alesia, part of Investigative Team at the Indianapolis Star, who broke the story. And we will look at his latest piece what is next for usa gymnastics . A long, tough road at best. Then we will speak with ari berman or concerns of the newly announced plans to add a question on citizenship to the 2020 census. It determines who is counted, literally, who is counted in terms of congressional in terms of congressional representation, who is count
Ago they called in senator mitchell and ken dubestein to investigate where they had gone wrong with the ioc and make recommendations. External respected, nonpartisan investigation. This committee to help u. S. Soccer set up a similar independent committee to find out what on earth has gone so badly wrong and it being covered up. Also u. S. Soccer could do what your government does, which is put everything online. The forms are inadequate. And then renew, reorganize and reinvigorated soccer could say to the world this is how it does. We are not in america pushing around but we can do it. It is all wide open. Join with us and the 209 National Associations would come with you finishing. Next monday, the absent mr. Gillaspie, who i think is treating you with contempt and the u. S. People of soblger, the men and women and the whole sport with context when he cant come here and defend the u. S. Soccer activities in concocaf and fifa. So hes going over to zurich next week with a private meeti
It is perceived as the most corrupt of the very regional associations. What does u. S. Soccer federation know . Thank you, senator. Let me interrupt, you speak for you personally . Ht no one have run anything to my attention regarding corruption. That being said, theyre are a couple of things i would like to. Out. Mr. Blaser has not beene to involved since 1986. Been memb he has been a member of cocky cast, but not us soccer. Blatand in terms of mr. Blatter anderctiv mr. Warners activities i would like to. Out that those were private individual, secret transactions that with the four resourcesfullars to b resources of the department of justice and fbi chick forwe a s four years to bring light. We are a Soccer Organization with our greatest focus onhicountr developing all aspects of our support. I wantedi wanted to. Out that private transactions also were for regionalt is aimpo sponsorship and regional broadcast which has nothingould to do with us soccer and our rights and our tv andk y
Concerns. It would be hard to pinpoint. Theres generalities and theyre related to the point in which they ran their meetings and how i think u. S. Soccer would be like to have a greater influence but being one of 35 voting nations and mind you mr. Warner came from the caribbean and 25 of those 35 votes are from the caribbean. It gave me a level of discomfort that we werent going to make progress in terms of transparency and some things i would have preferred as to how u. S. Soccer operates. Did you express those concerns to mr. Blazer . I did not. Any reason you might not have confronted him or asked why hes doing what hes doing . Generally speaking we have the potential to opt out and with mr. Blazer i just felt we had other things to do that could help build our sport as well and there was some concern that if i brought it to mr. Blazers attention i may feel a level of discomfort in other ways. Did you see peers feel discomfort in other ways in order to confront mr. Blazer . It would