{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/in-the-news/two-us-senators-appear-to-be-taking-aim-at-ncaa-even-beyond-image-likeness-controversy", "Two U.S. senators appear to be taking aim at NCAA even beyond image, likeness controversy", "2019-12-17", "2019", "2019-12", "Democrat", "House", "CT", "Christopher Murphy", "M001169", "www.murphy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Two U.S. senators appear to be taking aim at NCAA even beyond image, likeness controversy\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n                \r\n            \r\n            \r\n            \r\n\r\n                \r\n                \r\n                \r\n            Tuesday, December 17, 2019\r\n            \n\t\n\r\n            \r\n            WASHINGTON  Two U.S. senators taking an interest in the compensation and other benefits provided to college athletes met with NCAA President Mark Emmert on Capitol Hill Tuesday and said afterward they would like to hear from athletes and are interested in taking a federal legislative approach that may address issues beyond athletes' ability to make money off their name, image and likeness.\r\nCalifornia recently enacted a law that will allow college athletes in that state to be compensated for their name, image and likenessbeginning in 2023. Legislators in nearly 20 other stateshave introduced similar bills or intend to. There has beenlegislation pending the U.S. House of Representatives since March that would have the same impact nationally as California's law.\r\nThat has prompted concern from the NCAA about the existence multiple and differing laws around the issue. And it brought Emmert here to meet withSen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn)and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who have formed a bi-partisan working group to examine issues in college sports.\r\nRep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.), who introducedthe House bill, criticized Tuesday's meeting, releasing a statement that called it\"an ignominious start\" because it was withEmmert, \"the chief apologist for an exploitative system and not with the student athletes that are being exploited.\"\r\nLater, at an event here staged by the Aspen Institute, Walker said the NCAA has \"refused\" to arrange a meeting between him and Emmert, even thoughhe has tried for one \"multiple times.\"\r\nWalker added that he met with a lobbyist for the NCAA last winter and was immediately asked: \"What do you think you're trying to accomplish here?\" He went on to say: \"I have my doubts that the NCAA really has a desire to resolve this.\"\r\nAlso at the Aspen Institute event, Emmertsaid the NCAA Board of Governors the association's top policy-making group recently formed a group of school presidents to answer the question of what exactly the NCAA wants from a potential Congressional legislative solution. The goal is to have specifics for the full board to discuss at the NCAA's annual convention in January.\r\nThe board memberswant very much to have a model that protects the integrity of the recruiting process,\" Emmert said.\"That probably means that it's not the schools that are out there themselves creating these opportunities (for athletes) that they're truly organic, coming out of the marketplace, whatever that might look like. (Presidents) are interested in creating some framework around a group-licensing model whether it's around video games or anything else that might create some novel solutions.\"\r\nUnder a group-licensing setup, the goal would be for all athletes to share in the revenue from a given source for example, the royalties from a video game.\r\nEmmert also said the NCAA hastalked with some folks at the White House about this issue and they don't seem opposed to the idea of Congressional legislation.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nReferring to White House officials, Emmert added: I know they're talking with some member of Congress,both in the House and on the Senate side, but I don't know what their particular interest is.\r\nMurphy, who has released three reports this year on a variety of problems in college sports indicated he would like to see more addressed than name, image and likeness.\r\nI'm a supporter of the California law, but I also acknowledge that this is a national endeavor and it really can't ultimately work with 50 different state laws, he said. So I would like to see us work with the NCAA and work with student-athletes to try to come up with a federal solution that not only addresses the issue of having access to revenue from name, image and likeness but also speaks to issues of broader compensation and perhaps a fairer mechanism of compensation that simply making money off of endorsement deals.\r\n\"Personally, I'm very open to a number of different ways to get there, and I'd rather do that in concert with the NCAA than without.\r\nMurphy also said: I think it's time for us to recognize that student athletes need to get a little bit more than they are today to receive a little bit more protection financially and otherwise and I'm really grateful that the NCAA is willing to be part of this conversation.\"\r\nRomney also said he was concerned about differing rules across states, adding \"there probably needs to be some kind of national standard or series of guidelines, although at this stage I don't know what those will look like, and  one of the areas of my personal interests is to see a way not just for the very top athletes to be able to take advantage of the name, image and likeness  which is appropriate  but also athletes that are in sports not quite as visible.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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": ["http://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/in-the-news/two-us-senators-appear-to-be-taking-aim-at-ncaa-even-beyond-image-likeness-controversy"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9026860352605581, "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"}