Mitchell Report Part 2

I’m in Iowa today beginning my annual visits to all of Iowa’s 99 counties. I’m also paying close attention to what happened today in the House oversight committee. Former Senator George Mitchell, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, and the head of the Players Association Donald Fehr all testified about the Mitchell report on the use of performance enhancing drugs in baseball. They all seemed committed to implementing the report recommendations. Major league baseball has had a dismal record when it comes to policing its own players during the "steroid era," so it was also good to hear the commissioner say he’s getting behind reform legislation, including a bill I introduced last year to limit the sale of the steroid pre-cursor DHEA to kids under 18. Baseball needs to provide this kind of leadership both for the good of the sport and for the influence it has on the next generation.