Report: “Protect College Sports Act” won’t pass before midterms

The “Protect College Sports Act” cleared a key hurdle on Thursday, emerging from the Senate Commerce Committee and setting up a potential floor vote.

The apparent momentum may not mean much.

John Ourand of Puck writes that nothing will happen before the midterm elections in November.

“The Senate doesn’t have the bandwidth to do this right now,” an unnamed Capitol Hill source told Ourand. “I mean, I’ll even go a step further. I don’t think anything gets done in the Senate before November, let alone a controversial bill like this.”

The current session has only 39 days left, and the 19-9 vote in the Commerce Committee means that there are, and will be, opponents to the legislation.

If the bill doesn’t doesn’t happen before Election Day, the Congressional deck will be reshuffled and everything will essentially return to square one.