Complete schedule. Next, house hearing on efforts to protect you from sports concussions. Then a house hearing on the government accessing social media is part of background checks for some employees. After that, pentagon briefing pentagon briefing on the fight against isis and a briefing on the annual report on chinas military. Now, to mothers testify before a house energy and commerce a subcommittee about concussions in youth sports. Their sons died after suffering multiple concussions. The hearing also addressed Current Research and efforts to protect Young Athletes from injury. This is two and a half hours. We are on a tight schedule today with votes. The morning and welcome to the oversight and investigation hearing. Were were here to continue the ongoing examination of concussions. The hearing follows an initial table we had in march but we had a constructive dialogue with leading experts on how to address the challenge of concussions. Well focus on youth sports, specifically the
Janz, i am the mom to jakes naked burg. My son was your typical allamerican boy devoted to sports, his friends, and her family. Jake was often referred to as her social butterfly. He had a big heart and genuinely cared for those in his life. He had a joy about him that others could not resist. His a big a big brother summed it up best when he said jake drank up life like it was pouring from a fire hose. He gave 110 and everything, especially sports. On september 18, 2004 jake got up at 6 15 a. M. In anticipation of his freshman football game. He loved football and all its offered, the physical challenge, this spirit of competition, and most of all the friendship that were involved. He was excited about playing this game because he had been held out of a few practices because the week prior he had suffered an injury where his arms and hands went numb and tingly. What he described to us sounded like maybe he tweaked his core strength is now. He had had not lost consciousness, he did not
What better protect the kids if they can change it with the president . It wont be football if we continue to strip away the cake return, the threepoint stance or any number of proposals out there. We think those are ways like tackling. It is an attempt to somehow sanitize the very difficult, very physical act of tackling. It cant be done. Tackling is tackling. They define it exactly as it is done and should be done at the three levels of football where the game should be played. If they cant tackle the way the technique was designed, they shouldnt be playing contact football until such point they are ready to play. Ladies and gentlemen at this time i will recognize my colleague from virginia. I do apologize that my jacket off and ran over to vote in the rain and it got wet so i took my jacket off. Mr. Oneill, my 10yearold tried to tackle football, when my 8yearold was seven he played for flag football. Because they are not ready to tackle that they actually drop out of the sport . We
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we are live on capitol hill this morning for a discussion on concussions in youth sports. Parents and medical experts will be testifying this morning before the house energy and commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations. Talking about Research Efforts and whats being done to protect Young Athletes from injury. This is live coverage on cspan2. It should start in just a moment or two. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] tight schedule on tights. Were here on committees ongoing examination of concussions. This hearing follows initial roundtable we had in march where we had constructive dialogue with leading experts in the field how to challenge concussions. Todays hearing focus on youth sports, specifically areas of prevention and research. While there is always particularly sports at young age shown to have many benefits. Benefits of youth sports participation, better health, increased activity, improved aca
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