AP
June 18, 2008
WASHINGTON - Sen. Arlen Specter said he won't call for congressional hearings on the NFL's investigation of the Spygate scandal after previously threatening to do so.
Specter's office confirmed yesterday his comments a day earlier to the Philadelphia Daily News editorial board.
"I haven't pulled back. There's not much more I can do at this point," the senator said Monday, according to his office.
"We've exposed a lot. ... But the public attention span is so limited. I'm not going to call for hearings because the mood is not right and we've got too many other bigger problems to deal with."
Specter did raise the issue of whether the NFL and other leagues, the beneficiaries of antitrust exemptions, should receive public funding for building stadiums.
