ESPN is reporting that a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee will be holding hearings on college football's Bowl Championship Series. Why? Because the BCS is often times controversial. This comes on the heals of Arlen Specter musing about Congress looking into the suspension decision made on Terrell Owens in the NFL. Congress has very little business poking its nose into sports. The United States has had a thriving professional and collegiate sports business for over 100 years now, and with a few exceptions involving obvious corruption, the sports business has done quite well without Congress's help.
I've always been a fan of part time legislatures. I think full time legislatures get over involved in our lives because they are always looking for something to fill their time. Go to a part time legislature, pay the officials less, and make them get more involved in real life in their home districts. Part of the reason we don't do it is because it makes it difficult for a lot of people to justify running for elective office, so it has a certain impracticalness to it. But if Congress feels it needs to get its nose into something as inconsequential as the BCS, maybe it is time we looked at cutting back the work year of the biggest legislature in the land-Congress.
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