{"id":2030318,"date":"2023-09-13T10:04:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T14:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-house-hearing-on-pga-tour-liv-golf-partnership-and-saudi-sportswashing\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T14:05:15","slug":"watch-live-house-hearing-on-pga-tour-liv-golf-partnership-and-saudi-sportswashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-house-hearing-on-pga-tour-liv-golf-partnership-and-saudi-sportswashing\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: House hearing on PGA Tour-LIV Golf partnership and Saudi &#8216;sportswashing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-live-house-hearing-on-pga-tour-liv-golf-partnership-and-saudi-sportswashing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2030318&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A \u2064Homeland Security Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on\u200c PGA-LIV Tour Deal<\/h2>\n<p>A Homeland Security subcommittee is set to hold a \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-cancels-highly-anticipated-hearing-over-title-42-immigration-border-security-case\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Cancels Highly Anticipated Hearing Over Title 42 Immigration, Border Security Case\">highly anticipated hearing<\/a> on Wednesday to \u2064discuss Saudi Arabian investments in the United \u2064States and their potential impact on the PGA-LIV Tour deal.<\/p>\n<h3>Examining Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Investment Fund<\/h3>\n<p>The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will convene on Wednesday morning to closely examine Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Investment Fund. This \u200chearing aims to shed light\u200b on the implications\u200b of Saudi Arabian investments in American golf.<\/p>\n<p>The subcommittee has invited several\u2063 key witnesses to testify at the hearing.\u2064 These include Benjamin Freeman, director of the Democratizing Foreign Policy Program; Brian Murphy, \u2064managing director at\u200c Logically AI\u200d Inc.; and Joey\u2063 Shea, a researcher for Human\u2064 Rights Watch specializing in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<h2>Concerns and Downplayed Influence<\/h2>\n<p>The\u200d PGA and LIV merger, which took \u200bplace in June, raised concerns among\u2063 Democratic lawmakers who feared that it would\u200d grant Saudi Arabia undue \u200dinfluence over American golf.\u200d In July, PGA executives\u200c sought to allay these concerns during a hearing with the Homeland Security Committee&#8217;s investigative panel.<\/p>\n<p>PGA Chief Operating Officer Ron Price\u2064 assured lawmakers\u200b that Saudi Arabia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/buy-ban-or-copy-how-governments-are-responding-to-the-cryptocurrency-revolution\/\" title=\"Buy, Ban, Or Copy? How Governments Are Responding To The Cryptocurrency Revolution\">sovereign wealth fund<\/a> would invest &#8220;north of $1 billion&#8221;\u2064 into the new \u200bentity. However, Subcommittee \u2062Chairman Richard\u2064 Blumenthal (D-CT)\u200b expressed skepticism, suggesting that this investment could be an attempt by Saudi \u200dArabia to &#8220;sportswash&#8221; their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-like-the-good-old-days-joe-biden-invades-syria-with-convoy-of-us-troops-and-choppers-on-first-full-day-as-president\/\" title=\"Just Like the Good Old Days: Joe Biden Invades Syria with Convoy of US Troops and Choppers on First Full Day as President\">human rights abuses<\/a> and gain control over American institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers,\u2062 on the\u200d other\u2063 hand, have been less concerned about the \u2063merger.\u200c They argue that the PGA had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-house-hearing-on-pga-tour-liv-golf-partnership-and-saudi-sportswashing\/\" title=\"LIVE: House hearing on PGA Tour-LIV Golf partnership and Saudi 'sportswashing'\">limited options due<\/a> to ongoing litigation\u200c and attempts by other organizations to poach \u200cplayers.<\/p>\n<h2>Upcoming Hearing<\/h2>\n<p>The hearing\u200b is scheduled to commence at 11\u200d a.m. Eastern time\u2062 on Wednesday. It promises to be a crucial event in determining the future of the PGA-LIV\u2064 Tour deal and \u2064the\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-banking-democrat-wavering-over-fed-nominee-ahead-of-confirmation-vote\/\" title=\"Senate Banking Democrat Wavering over Fed Nominee Ahead of Confirmation Vote\">potential influence<\/a>\u2062 of \u200bSaudi Arabian investments in American golf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Homeland Security subcommittee will discuss Saudi Arabian investments in the US during a hearing on the PGA-LIV Tour deal. The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will meet on Wednesday to examine Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Investment Fund. Witnesses include Benjamin Freeman, director of Democratizing Foreign Policy Program, and Brian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2030319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}