“I think President Biden will sign whatever we send him,” Senator Wicker says. “As far as I know he hasn’t been involved, and I haven’t heard too much from the administration about [NIL]. I think he’ll let us make the decision there. It’s not one of the pressing issues of the day for the administration.”

Wicker also sees the long road for NIL in Congress as a healthy sign for governance, noting that the founding fathers “meant for things to take time” and to use a “deliberative process.”