{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://baumgartner.house.gov/media/press-releases/baumgartner-slams-ncaa-settlement-calls-trump-save-college-sports", "Baumgartner Slams NCAA Settlement, Calls on Trump to Save College Sports", "2025-06-09", "2025", "2025-06", "Republican", "House", "WA", "Michael Baumgartner", "B001322", "baumgartner.house.gov", "baumgartner", "https://baumgartner.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON- Today, Congressman Michael Baumgartner (WA-05), Chair of the Congressional College Sports Caucus, issued the following statement, following the announcement that a final settlement agreement has been reached in the House v. NCAA litigation.\n\n\u201cThe House settlement locks in an unsustainable model that enriches the power conferences at the expense of everyone else \u2014 walk-ons, women\u2019s teams, Olympic sports,\u201d said Congressman Baumgartner. \u201cAnd just like Teddy Roosevelt saved college football in 1905, President Trump can step in to save college sports today. My RESTORE Act is the roadmap, with fair revenue-sharing, rationalized conferences, and reasonable student compensation.\u201d\n\nThe House settlement answers some legal questions around athlete compensation \u2014 but locks in a model that is financially unsustainable and unfair. The inclusion of hard roster caps \u2014 jammed into the settlement late at the urging of the NCAA and power conferences \u2014 has nothing to do with NIL rights. These limits weren\u2019t necessary to resolve the lawsuit. They\u2019re about locking out opportunities to lock in profits.\n\nBackground:\n\nJudge Wilken deserves credit for insisting that current athletes \u2014 and now even incoming freshmen \u2014 not lose their roster spots overnight. That\u2019s a win for fairness. But make no mistake: this settlement doesn\u2019t fix college sports. It codifies a system that will hurt walk-ons, squeeze Olympic sports, and hollow out Title IX-compliant women\u2019s teams \u2014 all to benefit a few power programs and television executives.\n\nIn 1905, college football was on the brink until President Theodore Roosevelt stepped in. He understood that leadership matters. President Trump is uniquely positioned to do the same. He knows how to disrupt broken systems and restore competitive balance.\n\nThe president should move forward with executive action to save college sports. Baumgartner\u2019s Restore College Sports Act offers a blueprint:\n\nRebuild regional rivalries and cut travel costs,\n\nStructure fair revenue-sharing across sports and schools,\n\nProtect opportunities for walk-ons and Olympic athletes,\n\nDeliver compensation for students without destroying what makes college sports great.\n\nThis settlement may close a lawsuit \u2014 but it opens a much larger crisis. We don\u2019t need more litigation. We need leadership.\n\nRead the bill text here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T01:08:28Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://baumgartner.house.gov/media/press-releases/baumgartner-slams-ncaa-settlement-calls-trump-save-college-sports"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8633141405880451, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}