Congress introduces bill aimed at PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger, Saudi Arabia 'sportswash'

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Congress has officially stepped in following the professional golf merger that shocked everyone in the game on Tuesday. 

The uniting of the PGA Tour, the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) and the DP World Tour took everyone, including the players who were not in the know, by surprise. 

However, while Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell did not believe that governmental concern was warranted, others are taking action. 

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Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference on Wall Street bonus taxes on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. (Bill Clark/Roll Call/Getty Images)

Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., has introduced the "No Corporate Tax Exemption for Professional Sports Act," and in doing so, is pointing the finger directly at the new golf entity. 

"Saudi Arabia cannot be allowed to 'sportswash' its government’s horrific human rights abuses and the 2018 murder of American-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi by taking over the PGA [Tour]," Garamendi said in a statement, via Yahoo Sports. 

"PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan should be ashamed of the blatant hypocrisy and about-face he and the rest of PGA’s leadership demonstrated by allowing the sovereign wealth fund of a foreign government with an unconscionable human rights record to take over an iconic American sports league and avoid paying a penny in federal corporate income tax. This merger flies in the face of the PGA players who turned down hundred-million-dollar paydays from the Saudi-backed LIV to align themselves with the right side of history and human decency."

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