Judiciary Committee announces witness list
The House Judiciary Committee announced its list of witnesses for Monday's hearing in Detroit regarding head injuries suffered by football players. Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), the chairman of the committee, called the hearing as a followup to the committee's late-October meeting on Capitol Hill on the same subject. "Clearly, we have reached a tipping point in our understanding of the causes and treatment of brain injuries in football," Conyers said in a written statement. "Since our last hearing, the NFL has made a series of important announcements, including enhancing the protocol for concussions by players; helping ensure that independent brain-injury experts clear players before they can return to play; encouraging current and former players to agree to donate their brains to study; shaking up the membership of their concussion committee; and suspending the concussion committee's work while proposing to support independent research into the study of brain injuries.
