WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain gave the major league baseball players' union a brush-back pitch Wednesday, warning that Congress will step in if the union doesn't toughen its testing for steroids.
McCain, the Senate Commerce Committee chairman, challenged union chief Donald Fehr to follow the National Football League's drug policy. Fehr declined, saying he couldn't agree to changes in the players' collective bargaining agreement.
"Your failure to commit to addressing this issue straight on and immediately will motivate this committee to search for legislative remedies," warned McCain, R-Ariz.
"I don't know what they (the remedies) are. But I can tell you, and the players you represent, the status quo is not acceptable. And we will have to act in some way unless the major league players' union acts in the affirmative and rapid fashion."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&ncid=755&e=1&u=/ap/20040310/ap_on_go_co/congress_steroidsArrest the players if you have evidence, and they will change. "Legislative remedies" really aren't necessary--the drugs are already illegal, aren't they? Sneak MLB drug testing in the Patriot Act III with everything else...