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    Isn’t there a war going on or something?

    Or maybe the economy kinda sucks? Our nation’s infrastructure crumbling? Something? Anything but this?

    Congress wants to hear more from Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig and players’ union head Donald Fehr about their 2005 testimony on steroids in the sport.

    Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Tom Davis, R-Va., the leaders of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, wrote letters to Selig and Fehr on Thursday, saying that information about drug testing in the Mitchell Report “raises questions about your assertions in the March 2005 hearing.”

    Priorities, priorities.

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