What we know
What we know: Election over, the clock starts ticking again on landmark college sports bill in lame-duck House
Compiled Nov 5
What we know
- The House lame-duck session begins Monday, when lawmakers will decide whether to proceed with the Protect College Sports Act
- The bill passed the Senate by a 77-22 margin last month
- Democrats won at least 247 seats in the election, with counting still underway Thursday
- The NCAA, USOPC, Randy Levine, Cody Campbell, Sens. Cruz and Cantwell, and President Trump are pushing for the bill
- The Big Ten passed rules last month designed to make its spending guidelines conform with numbers in the bill
- The National College Players Association says the bill doesn't protect Olympic and women's sports as claimed
What we don’t know yet
- Whether current House Democrats, who mostly oppose the bill, will vote for it in the lame-duck session
- How the election results impact the smaller group of Republicans who didn't support the legislation
- Whether the election results will reset the debate over the bill
Open questions
- Will House Democrats, who mostly oppose the bill, vote for it during the lame-duck session?
- Will the Republicans who didn't support the legislation change their position after the election results?
- Will the Big Ten and SEC move toward independent conference-led governance if Congress doesn't act?
- Does the bill actually protect Olympic and women's sports as its supporters claim?
Drawn from the Associated Press report. “What we don’t know” lists only what the reporting itself flags as unresolved.