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Mark EvansI spent much of my career in legislation, representing the interests of the Department of Justice, and later the federal judiciary, before the Congress. In that capacity, I worked with both members and staff and attended a boatload of congressional hearings.
While this hearing may have some salutary effect in discouraging steroid use, in my view it was at best tenuously related to Congress's constitutional authorities to enact legislation and oversee executive branch agencies.
I think the abuse of banned substances by ballplayers can be adequately redressed by MLB and, to the extent laws have been broken, by appropriate law enforcement authorities. Mark