Pictures of the Day: Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010

Katherine Brearley, mother of the late Owen Thomas, a former University of Pennsylvania football player, keeps her son's high school football helmet at her feet while testifying before the House Education and Labor Committee
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Testimony

Katherine Brearley, mother of the late Owen Thomas, a former University of Pennsylvania football player, keeps her son's high school football helmet at her feet while testifying before the House Education and Labor Committee about the Protecting Student Athletes from Concussions Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.