NFL commissioner Roger Goodell declined an invitation to appear at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on June 10 about the league’s broadcast and streaming deals.According to a letter sent from NFL general counsel Ted Ullyot to the committee’s chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), on Wednesday, Goodell will not be able to participate “due to ongoing litigation related to the topic of the hearing.”Ullyot’s two-page letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Athletic, was written in response to Jordan’s June 1 request for Goodell to testify at the hearing entitled “Examining the Sports Broadcasting Act.” The hearing, according to Jordan’s letter to Goodell, will examine the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 and “the ways in which the distribution of professional sports has evolved” and how the antitrust exemption created by the SBA “has been used by the professional sports leagues to harm consumers.”The federal statute allows pro sports leagues the ability to pool their teams’ television rights and sell them collectively as one package without violating antitrust laws.The original statute was designed for “sponsored telecasting,” or free over-the-air TV broadcasts. But as leagues have shifted to using paywalls and subscription streaming services for some games, federal regulators have examined whether their antitrust exemption should still apply.