Lawmaker targets TV exemption

Topdawg13 · Mar 14, 2011

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A senior House Democrat on Monday sought to eliminate the NFL's antitrust exemption for broadcasting contracts, the opening salvo from Congress in response to owners' lockout of players in America's most popular sport.

"At a time when the economy is struggling and the NFL has chosen to lock out its players, it is particularly inappropriate to allow the league to benefit from a special antitrust exemption," said Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, who introduced the Prevent Lockout of Athletes This Year Act, or PLAY Act.

But the committee's chairman, Texas Republican Lamar Smith, indicated he would not take up the legislation.

"The House Judiciary Committee will not consider any bill that attempts to interject Congress into the private dispute" between the NFL and the NFL Players Association, said Smith, who also repeated his view that both sides are "big boys" and Congress doesn't need to referee every dispute for them.
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