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We appreciate your arguments today, thank you. The court may call the next case. Over the next few hours we will show you congressional hearings on professional and student athletics. Up next house hearing from brain injuries from football, hockey and other sports. Then we will look at scholarships, sex assaults and whether student athletes should be paid. Earlier in year a House Sub Committee looked into brain injuries from football, hockey and other sports. Officials with the nfl and National Hockey league talked about how their industries address the issue. We will also hear from profession...

Reduce injuries. I feel confident given the recent rule changes and the Rate Technology is advancing, playing a contact sport today is likely safer than it has been in the past. However we must accept there is no silver bullet, no helmet or pad will prevent 100 of the injuries 100 of the time. We need to keep your kids safe while still promoting youth participation. In sports. This involves listening to how leaders in top tier researchers are partnering with nhl and nfl to make youth safer. These are the types of innovations needed to give parents assurance that all possible steps are being ta...

Then we will look at scholarships, sex assaults and whether student athletes should be paid. Earlier in year a House Sub Committee looked into brain injuries from football, hockey and other sports. Officials with the nfl and National Hockey league talked about how their industries address the issue. We will also hear from professional and student athletes. This hearing is about three hours. All right. I want to thank everyone for being here. We are now at the full Committee Ranking member, the gentleman from california joins us. We now have the ability to start our hearing. So ill introduce yo...

Cspans 2014 student cam competition is under way. This competition for middle and High School Students will award 150 prizes. Create a five to seven minute documentary on the topic, the three branches and you. Videos need to include cspan programming, show varying points of view and be submitted by january 20, 2015. Go to studentcam. Org for information. Grab a camera and get started today. Tonight on cspan, American History tv examines spying in the u. S. Well start at 8 00 with a tour of the cia museum. Then a look at spying during the civil war. After that german espionage against the u. S....

Elaborate lengths to do that and will continue to do so. We are pleased to have this opportunity to share with this subcommittee some of the measures enacted in this pursuit. National Hockey League was the first Major Professional Sports League to launch a comprehensive leaguewide program to evaluate players after they incur head injuries. Beginning in 1997 the nllpa Concussion Program required that all players on all clubs undergo preseason baseline neuropsychological testing. After a player diagnosed with a concussion he undergoes postinjury neuropsychological testing and preand post injury ...