Your tax dollars at work

By Tim O'Brien

March 27, 2009 at 5:59PM

Enough of these little distractions -- two wars, an economy in meltdown, Mexico going to heck in a handbasket -- Congress is finally ready to tackle the most-pressing issue of our time.

How we choose our college football national champion.

The U.S. Senate subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy, and consumer rights announced that it wants to take a look a look at the much-maligned Bowl Championship Series. The BCS may raise antitrust concerns, it says, because some conferences -- like the Big Ten, the Pac 10 and the SCC -- receive automatic bids while other conferences don't.

The senator spearheading the hearings is Utah Republican Orrin Hatch.

Hatch has a little skin in the game, as they say. His Utah Utes went undefeated last season, but were bypassed in favor of Oklahoma and Florida for a berth on the national title game.

And here I was worried about my 401(k).

In this same vein, I want to see Sen. Amy Klobuchar call hearings into Cowboys wide receiver Drew Pearson's obvious pass interference against the Vikings' Nate Wright in the 1975 NFC playoffs. I mean, since the Senate has the time and nothing better to do.

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