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Congress frequently votes on resolutions to honor the Teacher of the Year or the men and women of the Armed Forces or the spelling bee champion. These things are noncontroversial and usually pass unanimously.
But when it comes time to honor the national champion in college football, there's no such thing as noncontroversial.
So today's roll call vote on a bill titled "Commending the University of Florida Gators for winning the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game" didn't pass unanimously. Five members of Congress -- Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania, Joe Barton of Texas, Jeff Flake of Arizona, Marion Berry of Arkansas and Jack Kingston of Georgia -- voted no.
More interesting is that another seven members of Congress voted present, and those votes included all three Representatives from Utah, whose state university was kept out of the national title picture despite being the only major college football team to go undefeated.
Of course, you could vote to commend the Gators for winning the BCS national title game and not necessarily agree with the process for choosing the Gators as one of the two teams playing in the game. But I salute the few members of Congress who decided to make an anti-BCS statement.
Via The Big Lead.
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