Senator McCain Statement On Mitchell Report To Commissioner Of Baseball

December 13, 2007 -- Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today released the following statement about former Senator Mitchell’s report on performance-enhancing drug use in baseball:

“After unveiling the pervasiveness of performance-enhancing drug use among amateur and professional baseball players more than four years ago, Congress pushed Major League Baseball to implement the most stringent drug testing policy of all major sports. However, the science of performance-enhancing drugs continues to outpace the enforcement against the wrongdoers.

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“The report we are seeing today in no way represents a bookend to this era. With ties to drug use found in all thirty major league baseball teams, it is abundantly clear that this problem is universal.

“It is time for the players union to step forward to help save the reputation of the game. There has to be cooperation from the players union rather than what I view is the obfuscation and delay on this issue.

“I strongly encourage Major League Baseball to take appropriate actions in response to the information disclosed in Senator Mitchell’s report. Failing to act would be a perpetration of fraud upon those athletes who follow the rules, and to the American public.”

Source: Senator John McCain