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Hearing: Federal intervention in steroid issue is imminent

By Lester Munson
ESPN.com

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Four major sports league commissioners and four union chiefs are not happy about it, but they might soon face a bipartisan push in the U.S. Congress to take control of steroid testing and punishment away from professional sports and turn it over to an independent agency. In a hearing Wednesday on Capitol Hill, both the Democratic chairman of the House Subcommittee on Commerce Trade and Consumer Protection, Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., and an influential Republican, Rep. Cliff S ...

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