The NFL is fielding plenty of questions into its investigation of the New Orleans Saints and their alleged bounty program.

But the league won't field additional queries from Congress.

"The NFL has taken the issue of bounties in professional football seriously and has been open and willing to take additional steps to protect player safety and football's integrity," Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, the Democratic Whip, said Wednesday.

"Because of that willingness to address the issue, and due to the reforms the league is announcing after meeting with me today, I will withhold Congressional hearings on this matter and continue to work with the league and its players to ensure the league's rules are sufficient and that nothing like these bounty programs ever happens again."

Durbin did extract some promises from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell after the two met today on Capitol Hill today. Goodell has pledged to:

Write a letter to all league and team employees regarding bounties

Include a new "bounties section" into the NFL rulebook

Create an anonymous bounty hotline "to encourage players to report issues relating to bounties"

Send an email to all registered NFL fans that addresses bounties, player safety and the game's integrity

Ensure that the league will "sufficiently prohibit bounty programs from a safety perspective"

"We will continue to work with the Senator and his office. We will continue to evaluate our policies at every step," said Goodell.

"We give the Senator our assurance on that, my personal assurance that I will do that."

However that doesn't seem to quite cut it for the NFL Players Association, which released the following statement Wednesday afternoon: