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Article: DOPING PROS BACK ON CAPITOL HILL GRILL.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 28, 2008
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Once again, professional sports and their leaders were hauled up to Capitol Hill on Wednesday by lawmakers who say they might try once again to legislate drug-testing policies for U.S. leagues.
Facing a House subcommittee that also held hearings on steroids in 2005, each league commissioner sat side-by-side with his sport's union chief: Bud Selig was inches away from Donald Fehr; the NBA's David Stern was next to Billy Hunter. Then there was the NFL's Roger Goodell and Gene Upshaw, and the NHL's Gary Bettman and Paul Kelly, rounding out the first set of witnesses.
"Let's get it right this time. Let's go ahead and get something into law that is ...