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Ted Cruz: “The bill explicitly protects the right of athletes to…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Sen. Ted Cruz on his quest to change college sports

Published | Video Starts at 17:23

As a free market guy, if you develop skills that are really valuable, really productive, you ought to be able to reap the fruit of your labor. So I think it's a much better system. So this The bill explicitly protects the right of athletes to receive real NIL [Name, Image, and Likeness] compensation. Yep. So if it's name, image and likeness, if you're a quarterback and you can sell millions of dollars worth of sneakers, you ought to be getting the millions of dollars. (17:23–17:29)

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