Another Bill Sitting in Committee While Athletes Sign Predatory Deals Today

Let's be honest about what 'Referred to Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee' means. It means this bill is in the waiting room. It means the senators who could actually move it are busy with other priorities while a 19-year-old running back in Tuscaloosa is right now signing an NIL deal he doesn't fully understand, with an agent he can't properly vet, under rules that vary depending on which state his school happens to sit in. This isn't a knock on Murphy — S.2470 has real teeth. Federal NIL rights, agent access, international athlete protections. These are things that matter. But 'referred to committee' is where good legislation goes to get quietly buried. We've watched college athletes wait for federal clarity since 2021 while the NCAA ran out the clock on five different 'frameworks.' The athletes who needed this bill graduated already. The ones who need it now can't afford to wait for a committee calendar to open up. So the question is direct: which senators on the Commerce Committee are actively blocking a vote, and why aren't we saying their names out loud?