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
College football starts in basketball and you get to root for your alma mater or the team yet come to follow and its a lot of fun. Its gotten to be really big business. There are billions of dollars gamble on College Athletics. Theres billions of dollars in revenue generated from College Athletics, and its all built around a model of amateur athletics. So the fact that a lot of people are making money off amateur athletics, the challenge is, trying to make sure that the Business Model is fair, what you do but the people watching play the sport without destroying the amateur nature of the game . Because most of the people on a College Athletic team, that will be the end of their athletic career in terms of getting compensated. They get scholarships, many of them do, and room and board of them go into the private sector and go on about their lives. But the College Athletic experience is something i want to reserve. There are many people get to share that experience who will not turn it i
Thank you all the world in which we live in the testimony we will get through it so i will make an Opening Statement and senator booker and senator blumenthal. The title of the hearing today is protecting the integrity of College Athletics. Like most americans one of the highlights with basketball. And its a lot of fun its going to be really big business with collegeage athletics and its all built around the model and then the challenge that the Business Model is fair without destroying the immature nature of the game with the collegeage Athletic Team thats the end of their career and to get compensated they get scholarships and room and board but to go into the private sector that the College Athletic experience is something i want to preserve and those that will not turn that into their livelihood those that require College Athletics for the opportunities for women and thats a good thing. So at the highest level College Athletics football. The football budget supports everything else
Will make an Opening Statement and senator booker and senator blumenthal. The title of the hearing today is protecting the integrity of College Athletics. Like most americans one of the highlights with basketball. And its a lot of fun its going to be really big business with collegeage athletics and its all built around the model and then the challenge that the Business Model is fair without destroying the immature nature of the game with the collegeage Athletic Team thats the end of their career and to get compensated they get scholarships and room and board but to go into the private sector that the College Athletic experience is something i want to preserve and those that will not turn that into their livelihood those that require College Athletics for the opportunities for women and thats a good thing. So at the highest level College Athletics football. The football budget supports everything else. If youre an athlete how do we treat you fairly without turning it all into minorleag
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