This view breaks the statement into its steps and names what each one does.
Procedure · 22 wordsHere is the National College Players Association: I could go on with all of the compelling, painful letters that have been written.Procedure Claims · 12 wordsThis is the wrong focus for Congress 30 days before midterm elections. Procedure · 15 wordsThere is one more question we should be asking about before we take this vote: ProcedureThe question · 11 wordsIs this really what we should be spending our time on? Claims · 67 wordsOur country faces real challenges. Gas is at $5.1 Diesel costs are at a record high.2 We are at war abroad. Healthcare expenses are skyrocketing. And the U.S. Senate is spending precious time on the floor rewriting the rules of college sports while athletes, athletes groups, survivors of sexual assault, labor, and civil rights leaders are all begging Congress to slow down and listen to their voices. Positioning · 7 wordsWhat does this say about our priorities?Positioning Claims · 14 wordsIt is also worth noting that many of my Senators are supporting this bill. Positioning · 87 wordsThey like to preach the gospel of small government. They talk about the love of free markets and small government; the importance of freedom and America’s right to pursue the opportunities that are best for them. But there seems to be a major exception to that kind of philosophy when it comes to young people who are disproportionately Black. There seems to be this high-and-mighty rhetoric about freedom and free markets when it comes to every other area of our economy but not this $20 billion industry.3Positioning Claims · 42 wordsUnder this Federal bill, the Federal Government will decide how many schools can join an athletic conference, when certain games can be played, 4and how much revenue athletes can receive from their own schools.5 This is a massive amount of market intervention. Reasoning · 29 wordsWhere else does the Federal Government step in to limit what people can earn while allowing the institutions that control the market to pay their executives anything they want? Claims · 96 wordsThere is not one single industry.6 My playing days are long over--that is obvious--but I think about athletes that are playing today and former athletes who have been calling me about their pain, about their suffering, about their reaching in their own pockets to pay for medical costs, who see that this bill’s medical pool is inadequate to the rising costs of CTE and more. I am thinking hard about athletes who are going to come after them who are joining this institution of NCAA with such a long history of exploitation and violating people’s rights. Reasoning · 56 wordsYoung people who work 40, 50 hours, dedicate themselves to their craft; young people who literally put their bodies on the line; young people whose talent generates billions of dollars for others--they deserve a voice in the decisions that are determining their future. They deserve a system that does more to protect their rights than saying: Claims · 13 wordsIt is all on you. Sue if you want to. Sue your coach. Reasoning · 49 wordsThey deserve to know that when they stand up and demand a fairer system, when they win in the courts and State legislatures, this body won’t betray them by pulling the rug out from underneath them.No reason given They deserve leaders in this body who will stand with the athletes first. Claims · 39 wordsWe may lose this vote today, but athletes know how to come back from a loss. They know how to get back up and go to work. They know how to keep fighting for what they believe is right. Promise · 30 wordsI am going to keep fighting alongside these athletes.Vague promise I am going to keep fighting against an institution called the NCAA that has violated their rights all throughout my lifetime.Vague promise The ask · 78 wordsI urge my colleagues to oppose this bill. I urge my colleagues to stand up for justice. I urge my colleagues not to race to get a bill done right before an election. I urge my colleagues to hold hearings and actually listen to survivors of sexual assault, parents of dead college athletes, to the kids who have serious, debilitating injuries right now and are paying their own medical bills. I beg my colleagues not to do this. Positioning · 3 wordsIt is wrong.Positioning Reasoning · 15 wordsThe next Congress would give us time. The next Congress would give us a chance. Claims · 36 wordsBut, no, billionaires and millionaires and lobbyists and funding has poured into this place, and suddenly, right before we leave, the last thing we are doing is a bill that is going to hurt so many. Positioning · 11 wordsI regret this day. I regret watching my colleagues do this.Positioning Promise · 4 wordsBut the fight continues.Vague promise Procedure · 4 wordsI yield the floor.Procedure
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