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	Rep. Tom Davis, the House committee chairman, listens as Rep. Henry Waxman, left, speaks during the opening portion of the steroid hearing.

He also chastised baseball executives for their reluctance to come forward when they were originally issued subpoenas and the appearance that their drug policy was not as clear cut as the public might have believed.

"I think they misjudged the seriousness of our purpose," Davis said. "I think they misjudged the will of the American public. I think they mistakenly believed we got into this on a whim. We did not. We gave this serious, serious consideration and we have decided that it's time to break the code of silence that has been enveloped the game."

Davis concluded by saying that "we're in the first inning of what could be an extra inning ball game," and that "the truth needs to come out, however ugly the truth might be."

10:09 a.m.
After Davis concludes, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) spoke for 12 minutes, talking about the history of baseball's reluctance to police itself.

"For 30 years, Major League Baseball has told us to trust them, but the league hasn't honored that trust and it hasn't acted to protect the integrity of baseball or sent the right message to millions of teenagers who idolize ballplayers."

10:21 a.m.
Two speeches are made, one by Mark Souder (R-Ind.) and the other by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.). Both talk about the danger of steroids.

Said Cummings: "Despite numerous reports of steroid use by individual ballplayers, the league has not once exercised its authority to investigate allegations of illegal steroid use."

	Sen. Jim Bunning, a Hall of Fame pitcher, testifies that it's not "natural" for big-league sluggers to become more productive as they near their 40s.

"Mr. Chairman, maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I remembered that players didn't get any better as they got older," Bunning said. "We all got worse. When I played with Henry Aaron and Willie Mays and Ted Williams, they didn't put on 40 pounds and bulk up in their careers, and they didn't hit more home runs in their late 30s than they did in their late 20s. What is happening in baseball now isn't natural and it isn't right."

Bunning spoke and then was questioned for four minutes by Rep. Davis on baseball's current policy. Both agree that the policy is too weak.

10:50 a.m.
During questioning by Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), Bunning delivered a passionate plea.

"If they started in 1992 or 1993 illegally using steroids, wipe all of their records out," Bunning said. "Take them away. They don't deserve them. Go ask Henry Aaron. Go ask the family of Roger Maris. Go ask all of the people that played without enhanced drugs if they would like their records compared with the current records."

11:12 a.m.
Rep. Charles Dent (R-Pa.) asked Bunning if he thought Congress should consider repealing Major League Baseball's unique antitrust exemption if they don't cooperate with the standards that government officials hope to uphold.

"If you are going to grant an exemption and they don't honor the exemption that they have and respect the fact that they have it, where major league football doesn't, and major league basketball doesn't have it and major league hockey never had it, then they should be held accountable for that exemption. Of course it should be one of the things on the table if you are going to look at not reacting to this crisis that is before them."

11:15 a.m.
A 30-minute break is announced.

The Garibaldis explained that their son's heroes were Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco. As a skinny athlete, they said their son bulked up on steroids in order to become draft-eligible. It eventually led to psychological problems and ultimately his suicide.

"Canseco states that his counterparts imply that as long as you trust your instincts, control carefully the amounts, administer them at a proper time and be smart, careful and know what you are doing, full potential can be reached," Dr. Garibaldi said. "I'd like to know where Dr. Canseco got his research. ... How many more youngsters will die questing ego and fame for steroids?"

	Donald Hooton Sr., whose son, Taylor, committed suicide after using steroids, said he believes major-league players are setting a poor example.

11:56 a.m.
Donald Hooton Sr. began his testimony. Hooton's son, Taylor, a high school baseball player, used steroids and committed suicide in July 2003.

Said Hooton Sr.: "How do you think your [MLB players'] refusals to talk are playing in the court of opinion? Let me tell you that the national jury of young people have already judged your actions and concluded that many of you are guilty of using drugs. But instead of convicting you, they have decided to follow your lead. In tens of thousands of homes across America, our 16- and 17-year-old children are injecting themselves with steroids just like you big-leaguers do."

12:21 p.m.
Gary Wadler, associate professor of clinical media at NYU School of Medicine, advocated that Major League Baseball should adopt all drugs banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and should look to the agency for guidance. "In my opinion, the complexity of anti-doping far exceeds the capacity of baseball to design, implement and monitor an effective and transparent program," Wadler said.

12:35 p.m.
Eliot Pellman, Major League Baseball's medical advisor, likened steroid use to an "insidious, contagious disease," but defended baseball's current program. Pellman said that a new video will be shown to players, who will also have access to a special hotline. Pellman also said that baseball is looking into funding a program that would speed the development of a urine test for Human Growth Hormone (HGH).

12:49 p.m.
Discrepancies with the announced agreement and the agreement submitted to Congress continue. Although Pellman says that masking agents are tested for in the current agreement, Rep. Waxman says that this contradicts the information that was submitted by the league to him.

1 p.m.
Pellman admitted, under questioning by Rep. Cummings, that he didn't know that under baseball's new policy that a player who gave a urine sample didn't have to be observed for the entire testing time. Pellman promised to Cummings that as baseball's advisor he will advocate that this possible loophole be changed. Major league officials including commissioner Bud Selig, executive vice president Rob Manfred and executive vice president Sandy Alderson are scheduled to testify today before the House Committee on Government Reform. Click below for the full text of their statements as released by Major League Baseball.

1:19 p.m.
Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) said that Pellman's testimony undermined the contributions of the rest of the medical panel and called his stance on baseball's program "pathetically unpersuasive."

1:41 p.m.
Back and forth questioning continues to center on what the representatives perceive as Pellman's ignorance of baseball's drug policy. The representatives cited that the current policy stated that players found to have used steroids could be fined or suspended without being named. Pellman said if there was no public notice of that suspension, he would be ready to resign. Given that Pellman is the advisor to the league, Rep. Waxman said it appeared as though he "got his pocket picked."

Said Pellman: "Instead of coming to conclusions about whether or not there was a quarter or a dollar picked from my pocket, I suggest you wait until you get all the information."

Said Waxman: "I recommend the same for you before you tell us what's in the document."

2:03 p.m.
Panel 2 has now gone one hour over the allotted time. The focus is still on Pellman. After Pellman says that he is more worried about human growth hormone than he is about anabolic steroids, Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) asks Pellman why baseball's drug policy doesn't allow for blood tests, which has been the way WADA has tested for HGH. Pellman says blood tests aren't conclusive, but Wadler disagrees.

2:07 p.m.
A 10-minute break is announced.

Sammy Sosa comes next. His interpreter reads Sosa's opening statement, in which he denies ever taking steroids. Sosa himself adds little.

	Mark McGwire struggled with his emotions as he spoke before the House committee Thursday.

Mark McGwire is next. He's very serious and has a hard time getting words out in his opening statement. During his seven minute opening statement, he licks his lips while his voice shakes and he takes three drinks of water during tough moments. He explains the Catch-22 of the hearings: "If a player answers no, he simply will not be believed," McGwire said. "If he says yes, he faces endless scorn." McGwire offers to become a spokesman for baseball in their efforts against performance-enhancing drugs.

Rafael Palmiero then talks. He denies ever using steroids. In his opening statement, Curt Schilling blasts Canseco for writing his book and says he hopes this doesn't serve as a way to sell more books. He also defends baseball, citing that the league has made strides in recent years to curtail use of performance-enhancing drugs. Frank Thomas concludes the opening statements by joining via video conference. He denies ever taking steroids.

2:57 p.m.
A recess is announced.

3:42 p.m.
We're still waiting for the representatives to come back. The hearing was adjourned due to some sort of a vote.

4:12 p.m.
The hearings are back on. Rep. Davis asks Schilling and Palmeiro if they knew that baseball's current policy didn't include the stipulation that violators had to be named. Schilling said he was under the impression that athletes would be named. Canseco was then questioned by Rep. Davis. Canseco said that baseball didn't do anything to stop steroid use. "Baseball was coming back to life," Canseco said. "Steroids were a part of the game and I don't think anyone wanted to take the stance on it."

4:18 p.m.
Rep. Waxman takes over questioning. Palmeiro says he had never seen the use of steroids in the clubhouse. Schilling admitted that when he was previously asked to comment on how wide-ranging the steroid problem was he "grossly overstated" it. "I think at the time it was a very hot situation and we were all being asked to comment on it."

Said Canseco: "The most effective thing right now is for us to admit there's a major problem ... From what I'm hearing I was the only individual in major league baseball to use steroids. That's hard to believe."

4:24 p.m.
Congressman John Sweeney (R-N.Y.) starts the questioning. Sammy Sosa is very quiet, giving very short answers. Canseco, meanwhile, is doing a little book selling: "Hopefully this book I wrote educates baseball and what's going on in sports."

Sweeney then pressed McGwire on androstenedione. "I'm here to talk about the positive and not the negative," McGwire said. Sweeney pressed on. "I'm not here to talk about the past," McGwire continued. He is then questioned by Rep. Elijah Cummings. McGwire says he plans to redirect some of the money from his foundation, which goes to neglected and abused children and "redirect it towards this issue." He also says he'd be "a great spokesman" in the campaign against performance enhancing drugs.

4:34 p.m.
After Canseco calls the new drug policy "a complete joke," the players are questioned by Rep. Lantos (D-Calif.) on what they would advocate for the future. Said Lantos: "To pretend that baby steps will solve this problem is ludicrous." All the players say that they would be interested in the federal government getting involved if baseball can't right the ship.

	Commissioner Bud Selig, left, listens closely as Jose Canseco gives his testimony Thursday.

Said Rep. Mark Souder apparently referencing McGwire not wanting to talk about the past: "If the Enron people come in here and say, 'Well we don't want to talk about the past,' do you think congress is going to let them get away with that? ... If we don't talk about the past, how in the world are we supposed to pass legislation when you are a protected monopoly and all your salaries are paid because you are a protected monopoly? How are we supposed to figure out what our obligations are to the taxpayers if you say we won't talk about the past?"

4:48 p.m.
McGwire said he would be a good spokesman for the campaign against performance enhancing drugs. Said McGwire: "My message is steroids is bad. Don't do them." When one of the representatives asks McGwire how he would know that steroids are bad, McGwire doesn't answer the question citing the advice of his lawyers.

5:06 p.m.
Rep. Gil Gutknecht (R-Minn.), who noted that he has been a member of Congress for 10 years said that "this (hearing) has been one of the most fascinating hearings that I have ever participated in." Canseco told Gutknecht that it will probably take an act of Congress in order for there to be a serious drug program implemented.

5:13 p.m.
Schilling calls Canseco a liar. "In 19 years in the big leagues, I have never seen a syringe," Schilling said. Canseco added that his book led some people to "cold stop" on steroids.

5:22 p.m.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) asks the players what they would say to the youth of America. Both Palmeiro and Sosa say they are the perfect example. Canseco says that he hasn't slept in three or four days because he was so upset about the kids he heard about who took their lives due to steroids. "If Congress does nothing about this," Canseco said. "Major League Baseball will not regulate themselves."

5:30 p.m.
Schilling says about the drug policy: "If there are loopholes ... we will close them." Rep. Henry Waxman says he is cynical that baseball will do anything more than what its officials want to do.

5:41 p.m.
McGwire is asked again about androstenedione and other supplements he might have used -- this time from Rep. William Lacy Clay from Missouri. Three times McGwire says he is not testifying to talk about the past. Said Clay: "I wish you had taken this opportunity to answer some of these questions about your career."

5:52 p.m.
Canseco is asked by Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) if he still believes in what he wrote in his book -- that steroids, when used in moderation, can be good for an athlete. He responds by saying that his book took two years to write and since he wrote some of those things he has done a complete turnaround and doesn't necessarily believe that anymore.

6:08 p.m.
Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.): "I guarantee you that Jose Canseco is not going to win a popularity contest with the players, but Jose Canseco might be the best thing that has happened to y'all."

6:17 p.m.
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) lets the panel go. "This has been a victory in itself," he said.

For much of the day, members of the committee have criticized baseball's new policy, insisting there are loopholes, including one in which first-time offenders can be suspended or fined.

Said Selig, "Let me set one thing straight. I will suspend any player who tests positive. There will be no exceptions. The union is aware of that and accepts it."

	MLBPA executive director Donald Fehr, right, and MLB vice president Rob Manfred get sworn in before giving their testimony in front of the House committee.

6:36 p.m.
Following Selig, MLB executive vice president for labor relations and human resources Rob Manfred read his opening remarks, a 12-minute statement he prepared the night before. Following Manfred, Don Fehr, executive director of the players' association, put his written opening testimony on the record. He elected not to read it aloud, but then spoke freely on a number of points addressed throughout the day.

"The players' association does not condone or support the use of any unlawful substance," Fehr said. "I can't put it any more plainly. The use of such substance is wrong."

7:05 p.m.
Following the opening statement of MLB executive vice president of baseball operations Sandy Alderson, San Diego Padres general manager Kevin Towers elected not to read an opening statement. "Just questions," Towers said.

7:24 p.m.
Committee member Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) presses Selig and Fehr to approve a tougher drug policy, similar to that of the Olympics.

Waxman to Selig: "In a first offense, two years' suspension and second violation, you're out of the game. That's worked in the Olympics and would be a clear signal."

Selig's response: "Yes, I wanted tougher testing. I believe there should be tougher testing."

Waxman: "So let me ask, Mr. Fehr, would you support it? The players said they would support it? Would you support a tougher testing program?"

Fehr: "It's not a simple yes-or-no answer. I believe my obligation to the players is to consult with everyone, when they're not under the glare of TV cameras. My personal view with violations of substance abuse is not to destroy careers; it's to stop it. And if we can stop it and put people on the right track and get them back to playing, that is manifestly better."

7:28 p.m.
The contentious moments begin. Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) starts laying into baseball for announcing the new drug policy in January even though the document wasn't completed until March. And the copy that baseball turned into the committee has "drafting errors."

Shays, talking to Manfred: "I think I need to calm down. The commissioner announced this policy in January. And you're telling me that the document wasn't drafted until March? All you do by your answers is make me want to know more and more what the hell you do.

"Then you give us the information and tell us it's a drafting issue. That's unbelievable. Why should somebody have five strikes?"

Selig: "That's the best we could do in collective bargaining."

Shays: "So it's the players' fault?"

Selig: "It's not the players' fault."

Shays: "I want to know why you can break the law once, twice, five times, then you're out. Mr. Fehr?"

Fehr: "We believe in the concept of progressive discipline."

Shays: "Even if you're breaking the law?

"What you're telling the kids is you can break the law four times before you're out of the game. To me, that's amazing. To the commissioner, I don't know why you don't fight for what you want and fight like hell to get it."

With that, Shays' time was up.

7:37 p.m.

Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.) continues the inquiry.

"We're upset. It doesn't matter if you're Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative," Souder said."I think spring training is already under way. And you're telling me this document was just drafted?"

Manfred answers the committee's concerns.

"Even though we reached this agreement in January, we began operating under this agreement on March 3, in the camps, taking urine samples. I understand you wanted it faster, but that was as fast as we could get it done.

"This is a long and complicated document. You did identify one spot where it could have been drafted better."

Said Souder, "Sir … you've been saying this is one part we've made an error in. It is the pivotal part. It's the penalty. And with that, my time is up."

7:52 p.m.

The floor now belongs to Rep. Lynn A. Westmoreland (R-Ga.). He, too, takes baseball's brass to task.

"Mr. Manfred, we got a saying down home -- 'You got your hat handed to you.' "

When reading different pieces of baseball's drug policy, he comments, "there's a lot of people in prison that would like this sort of deal."

7:59 p.m.
Rep. Bernard Sanders (I-Vermont) starts his attacks. He centers his argument on a 1995 Los Angeles Times article in which then-San Diego Padres general manager Randy Smith mentions the prevalence of steroid use. He asks Selig why nobody looked into the merits of the article.

"We've got a problem here," Sanders said. "If the L.A. Times says something, are they wrong? Just out of curiosity, if there's an article in a major newspaper, somebody should say there's a major problem, don't you think?"

Selig defends baseball, insisting that nobody in the sport turned their back on the steroid issue. Sanders concludes his questioning with a final, definitive statement.

"Let me just say this: I think people are saying, obviously we all know people with money are treated differently. There are God knows how many people rotting in jails. What people in America want to know is that people who are committing the same crimes are treated the same. And that is not the case.

"I would hope that the union and management would substantially raise the standards to tell people who are making millions and millions of dollars, if they want to make that sort of money, they have to not do drugs. Period."

	Baseball commissioner Bud Selig responds to a question from the House committee.

8:19 p.m.
The hearings take a more civil tone, with Rep. John Sweeney (R-N.Y.), Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and Rep. Charles Dent (R-Pa.) calmly asking the panel a variety of questions. Sweeney questions a confidentiality agreement that is written into the new drug policy. Kucinich asks the panel the validity of a New York Daily News story in the '90s in which it was reported the FBI investigated steroids. And Dent, who goes over his time limit, asks Towers what league GMs could do to help curb the problem of steroid use.

8:31 p.m.
Rep. Gil Gutknecht (R-Minn.) returns to attacking Selig as well as Fehr.

"I don't want to badger you, but all I keep hearing is what we hear is this is a collective bargaining issue," Gutknecht said. "But it's a criminal and a moral issue."

After pressing Fehr to instruct the players to accept a tougher policy, he turns to Selig and questions baseball's records.

"Mr. Selig, if you had credible evidence that records have been set by people who used illegal chemicals, what would you do?"

Selig, after being asked for the fifth time in the session to speak closer to the microphone: "If I had credible evidence, I'd do something about it.

"There's no question there's a problem. And we need to do something about it. The fact of the matter is it's very difficult; there is no tangible evidence."

8:41 p.m.
Rep. Darrell E. Issa (R-Calif.) asks baseball's brass the same line of questioning he asked the players earlier in the day. Mainly, if a player used an illegal bat or ball, would that be cheating? And if so, are steroids considered cheating?

Interestingly enough, in front of Commissioner Selig and the rest of Major League Baseball's representatives, he uses the example of putting cork in a bat, an example he didn't mention hours earlier, when Sammy Sosa was in front of the committee.

8:46 p.m.
Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (D-Mass.) addresses the panel and doesn't ask any questions. But his words speak volumes. Lynch thinks Congress needs to act. Now.

"I don't think we have time to wait," he said.

Looking at the agreement in front of him, Lynch shakes his head. "There are so many loopholes, it's just unbelievable," he said. "And the statement that the language of the contract, a collective bargaining agreement ... as a former union labor attorney, I find it unbelievable. Honestly."

Manfred interjects, defending the game.

"You're entitled to find it what you want, obviously," Manfred said. "The language as written, you read it to suggest the player gets to pick if he gets a fine or suspension. The agreement, even as written, however critical you want to be ... you're misreading the contract. Who would read an agreement where the player gets to pick the discipline?"

Lynch interrupts Manfred and goes on a closing tangent. "You know, there's a lot of stuff I've never seen here," Lynch said. "I'm not encouraged and Congress has to act. The time for waiting has long since passed.

"I'm disappointed in the testimony and the fact that people are still in denial that there's a problem ... I think Congress has to act now."

8:51 p.m.
After getting each member of the panel to agree that using steroids is cheating, Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) accuses Selig and the players' union of tolerating cheating in the game but not pushing for a zero-tolerance policy.

"To me, it's wholly irresponsible," he says.

Before finishing, he asks the panel what they learned from today's session. Selig is again reminded to speak into the microphone.

"It's been a most interesting day," he said. "I understand the intensity of the day, and we're going to be very sensitive to meet the feelings and complaints that this group has. From an ownership standpoint, we can do that."

Ruppersberger isn't satisfied.

"We need action," he says. "You've stated today that you feel we need a stronger policy. And you want that. Most owners do. Would you be in a position that you would not sign or participate in the existing contract? Would you in your negotiations demand a stricter policy? That's what it comes down to."

Selig: "We are bound, but hopefully, give the players' association great credit ..."

Ruppersberger interrupts him again.

"Mr. Fehr, my light is starting to come on. You're probably happy."

Fehr: "A lot of people have accused me of doing a lot of things not right. Not listening is not one of them."

Ruppersberger's conclusion: "We have an obligation. If we don't take away from today what you've heard, then Congress is going to get involved. You don't want that. I challenge you guys to coordinate, get a consensus."

9:10 p.m.
To end the long day of events, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) takes his final shots. He tells Selig that he's let baseball down, that he's let America's children down.

He goes on to say that if Selig were the CEO of a company and had this sort of record, he would be held accountable. He even hints at thoughts of a new commissioner.

"I don't mean to be harsh, but whoever makes the decisions for baseball ought to look at the situation we're in and see that it's time for a new leadership in baseball."

He urges the owners and the players to agree on a stronger drug-testing policy. And if they can't do it in collective bargaining, he encourages them to work with Congress to push such a policy through legislation. And that the policy should include all professional sports, college sports and all the way down to amateur and high school sports.

Selig responds briefly, pointing out that he -- and not his predecessors -- put baseball's drug-testing policy in place.

9:16 p.m.
The day that saw Mark McGwire break down in tears, Rafael Palmeiro and Sammy Sosa deny using steroids, and Curt Schilling call Jose Canseco a "liar" finally draws to an end. Eleven hours and 16 minutes after it began, Committee Chair Tom Davis smacks his gavel on the desk, formally bringing the event to a close.

Before doing so, Davis thanks the panel for its patience and, one last time, reminds them that the current drug policy is "short of the mark" and that they should look into the corrections the panel has discussed.

In the end, it's another public relations disaster for the national pastime. McGwire, sixth on the all-time home run list, is ridiculed for refusing to answer most of the committee's questions. Sosa, Palmeiro and Schilling are criticized for saying next to nothing. And Selig, Manfred and the rest of baseball's brass are condemned for revealing a drug policy that has "drafting errors."

Davis insists that from here on out, Congress will be watching.

"This is not the end of our investigation into steroids," he says.