Mitchell Testifies Before House Committee

The House Oversight Committee today started its hearing on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball, and with it came the usual speeches, long-winded statements and mispronounced names. Former Sen. George Mitchell pretty much stayed on script today, repeating time and again his boilerplate language about his report delivered last month. With Bud Selig and Don Fehr now being questioned, the mood and tenor of the hearing is more subdued than the '05 session held by the committee. See today’s Closing Bell and tomorrow’s issue of THE DAILY for more.

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