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Congressional bill aims to get NFL to change the name 'Redskins'

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Sep 3, 2015; Landover, MD, USA; Washington Redskins quarterback Colt McCoy (16) throws the ball against …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The District of Columbia's non-voting congressional delegate introduced a bill on Thursday to strip the NFL of its federal antitrust protection as long as it allows Washington's football team to use the name "Redskins," a moniker some see as racist.

Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton said the National Football League and Washington's football team "should not be benefiting financially from federal antitrust exemptions while they continue to promote a disparaging moniker that has been found by legal authorities to be a racial slur.