{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-joins-harris-faulkner-on-fox-news-to-discuss-title-ix-saving-womens-sports/", "ICYMI: Tuberville Joins Harris Faulkner on Fox News to Discuss Title IX, Saving Women\u2019s Sports", "2024-12-19", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined \u201cThe Faulkner Focus\u201d to discuss the fight to protect female athletes and the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act that is now headed to President Biden\u2019s desk to be signed into law.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s interview can be found below and his full interview can be watched on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nON RECENT SENATE HEARING WITH NCAA PRESIDENT CHARLIE BAKER:\n\nFAULKNER: \u201cRepublican Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, a member of the Armed Services Committee. You saw the salute. We thank him for his service. He also introduced a bill challenging President Biden\u2019s changes to Title IX, which allow men to use women\u2019s bathrooms and locker rooms. I mean, you said there\u2019d be a slippery slope. You were right.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell Harris, thank you for your fight on this, and thank you for bringing to light before the election with President Trump in your interview. I think that had a big, big push to get him elected. But at the end of the day, I\u2019ve got a granddaughter named Rosie Grace. She is not gonna dress with boys\u2014biological boys\u2014in dressing rooms. She\u2019s not gonna take a shower with them, and she\u2019s not gonna compete with them. Now Dick Durbin said along with Charlie Baker that, \u2018Oh, we\u2019ve only got a handful of biological boys in women\u2019s sports and NCAA.\u2019 We\u2019re not just talking about that. We\u2019re talking about elementary school. We\u2019re talking about junior high. We\u2019re talking about senior high. We\u2019re talking about all women, and they are being downgraded simply for the fact that the far left wants to add gender into the mix along with climate hoax and all the other nonsense that they\u2019re trying to push on this country, and they\u2019re trying to destroy it. So, we\u2019re not gonna allow them to destroy women\u2019s sports. We\u2019re gonna fight for it. We\u2019re gonna try to keep these wacko judges out of the fight and put them in the right direction.\u201d\n\nFAULKNER: \u201cWell look, Rosie [Grace] has a grandfather who\u2019s really fighting for her and other little girls and this really is going to take a fight because apparently, there\u2019s a push by\u2014I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s just Charlie Baker, head of the NCAA\u2014or if there\u2019s more like him in leadership and sports, but they want to make hundreds of thousands of people capitulate for fewer than ten other people. Like, we don\u2019t do that in any other part of society. Do we?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cNo. You\u2019re exactly right. Charlie Baker does not believe this. He is\u2014he hates lawsuits, Harris. He is under the gun with lawsuits right and left. He\u2019s trying to keep the NCAA afloat. But at the end of the day, I know complete entire high school sporting teams across the country in different states that are all biological boys participating in women\u2019s sports\u2014the entire team. And so don\u2019t tell me that it\u2019s a small problem. It\u2019s a problem that\u2019s gaining momentum on the left and they\u2019re pushing it, but we have got to stop it in its tracks. If we don\u2019t, we\u2019re gonna end up with a huge tragedy here. And again, you\u2019re not gonna have Title IX, you\u2019re not gonna have women\u2019s sports, and it\u2019s wrong because Title IX is the one of the best things to ever come out of this building up here. It\u2019s helping women become leaders across this country.\u201d\n\nFAULKNER: \u201cWell, there appears some on the left who don\u2019t agree with you on that. I don\u2019t know\u2014they\u2019re supposed to be the party of women. They can\u2019t define a woman. But now we\u2019re just asking them to define a man and a woman in a small-space locker room and in sports. It\u2019s not hard.\u201d\n\nON WORKING WITH PARIS HILTON TO PASS STOP INSTITUTIONAL CHILD ABUSE ACT:\n\nFAULKNER: \u201cAlright. We\u2019ll move on. Paris Hilton on Capitol Hill this week, she scored a major legislative victory on an issue very personal to her. The Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act is headed to President Biden\u2019s desk. It passed the Senate unanimously and cleared the House with overwhelming bipartisan support. The new legislation would require regular studies and reports. It would then work on solutions to prevent child abuse and deaths in youth residential programs. Paris Hilton shared her own experience as a victim.\u201d [\u2026]\n\n\u201cAn emotional growth boarding school, and it turned out to be a nightmare and a dangerous one. Paris Hilton took to social media with this post thanking you, Senator, and others for their support. She got emotional after the senate passed it. \u201d [\u2026]\n\n\u201cSenator Tuberville, can you tell me what maybe some of the talk on the hill was about this?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, I tried to explain it to a lot of my fellow senators here. I didn\u2019t know anything about this three years ago. I got involved with Paris Hilton\u2019s bill here, and I actually went to Utah, went to some other states and looked at some of these places, and I was appalled by how they\u2019re treated, how they\u2019re drugged. And so, I got into the fight with her, and we\u2019ve been pushing this thing for several years, but it is a huge problem. And all this bill says is \u2018Start reporting your problems that you\u2019re having. Because if you don\u2019t, you\u2019re gonna basically lose your license.\u2019 It\u2019s a huge problem across the country. We have a drug problem. A lot of these kids are on drugs that go in some of these places. But again, at the end of the day, it\u2019s about treating people the right way. All you have to do is read Paris Hilton\u2019s book\u2014which I did\u2014and I was amazed at what she went through. Here\u2019s a young girl that had everything going for her, and her parents actually believed the people that were take supposedly taking care of her\u2014they were doing just the opposite. So, just be careful what you do in the places that these kids are put into, and they cost a fortune, Harris, to put them in.\u201d\n\nFAULKNER: \u201cOh yeah.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cTen, fifteen thousand [dollars] a month. It\u2019s a fortune.\u201d\n\nFAULKNER: \u201cLook, you can\u2019t legislate morals, but you can change the game. And that\u2019s what, as you were explaining to some of those colleagues on the hill and what we\u2019ll see now with this bill, that\u2019s the goal here. Thank you very much, Senator. Always great to have you \u2018in focus.\u2019 \u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cThank you. Merry Christmas.\u201d\n\nFAULKNER: \u201cMerry Christmas.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"]], "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.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-joins-harris-faulkner-on-fox-news-to-discuss-title-ix-saving-womens-sports/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.585099846124649, "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"}