{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.schatz.senate.gov/news/press-releases/schatz-highlights-harms-of-micro-prop-bets-in-sports-need-to-address-offshore-sports-books", "Schatz Highlights Harms Of Micro Prop Bets In Sports, Need To Address Offshore Sports Books", "2026-05-20", "2026", "2026-05", "Democrat", "Senate", "HI", "Brian Schatz", "S001194", "www.schatz.senate.gov", "schatz", "https://www.schatz.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 During a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing on sports betting, U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai\u2018i) discussed with gaming experts vulnerabilities created by micro prop bets in sports and the need to address illegal, offshore sports books that harm sports integrity. Schatz is set to introduce legislation to outlaw micro prop bets in games and provide the Federal Trade Commission with authority to go after companies that knowingly facilitate illegal, offshore gambling.\n\n\u201cMicro prop [bets are] insidious in that [they] can be manipulated by a player or anyone else,\u201d said Senator Schatz, a senior member of the Senate Commerce Committee. \u201cThe more micro you get, the more insidious it is, from an integrity standpoint. But it also taps into the addictive, manic, algorithmically-driven problem that we\u2019re dealing with. I think this particular problem is especially acute and needs to be dealt with immediately.\u201d\n\nOn addressing offshore sports books, Senator Schatz said, \u201cWe think we, legislatively, have a pathway here. It doesn\u2019t solve every problem, and it certainly doesn\u2019t solve every problem as it relates to the challenges that individuals and society [are] facing with gambling. But if you empower the FTC to go after the payment processors, then they would have a perfect right to go and say, \u2018You may not work with these offshore shops if they are not complying with federal law having to do with micro prop bets.\u2019\u201d\n\nVideo of Senator Schatz\u2019s exchange with the witnesses is available here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-05-21T06:28:16Z", "2026-05-21T06:29:43Z"]], "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://www.schatz.senate.gov/news/press-releases/schatz-highlights-harms-of-micro-prop-bets-in-sports-need-to-address-offshore-sports-books"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.87514310143888, "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"}