Congress has taken a special interest in the NFL in recent months, especially when the subjects of concussions, the Redskins name or Ray Rice's punishment have arisen.
In May of 2013, a bipartisan group of 10 members of Congress sent a letter to the NFL asking for the team and owner Daniel Snyder to consider changing the name, and last February, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) said they were considering ways to pressure the league to make it happen.
On Tuesday, Cantwell, the former chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, announced that she would introduce a bill into the Senate that would eliminate the NFL's tax-exempt status.
“The NFL needs to join the rest of Americans in the 21st century,” she said, via the Washington Post. “It is about right and wrong.”
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