Constant Controversy: NFL Donated Large Sums to Congressional Research Panel

The plot continues to thicken in the ongoing dispute between the National Football League and former athletes who claim that the league failed to warn them of the long-term health risks of repeated head injuries. MapLight, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to “revealing money’s influence on politics,” recently released findings that since 2008, the NFL political action committee has donated $292,000 to 41 of the 52 members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee.

In December, the Committee announced that beginning in 2016, it would …

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