[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 29 (Wednesday, March 15, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H1000]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     STUDENT ATHLETE PROTECTION ACT

  (Mr. ROEMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROEMER. Mr. Speaker, today one of the great events in sports in 
America begins, March Madness, the NCAA tournament.
  While our student athletes are going to be giving it all on the 
court, the coaches are going to be trying to out-think and out-
strategize one another.
  But what do these coaches have in common, coaches like Mike 
Krzyzewski at Duke, Mike Montgomery at Stanford, Bill Guthridge at 
North Carolina, Roy Williams at Kansas? They all support a bill that 
the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) and I have introduced 
called the Student Athlete Protection Act, a bill that seeks to 
preserve the integrity of college, amateur, and high school sports by 
imposing a complete ban on betting on college sports, not de minimus 
bets on pools and offices, but on betting in Las Vegas.
  Let us try to protect the magic and the purity of the competition in 
these sports and support this bill.




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