[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 6373]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  WASHINGTON, DC, NFL TEAM NAME CHANGE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, yesterday the National Football League 
punished one of its most recognizable players for allegedly having 
tampered with game balls. I find it stunning that the National Football 
League is more concerned about how much air is in a football than with 
a racist franchise name that denigrates Native Americans across the 
country. The Redskins name is a racist name. So I wish the commissioner 
would act as swiftly and decisively in changing the name of the 
Washington, DC, team as he did about not enough air in a football.

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