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Originally Posted by 33girl
Actually, MLB is subject to scrutiny by our government as they have an antitrust exemption.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/s/2001/1205/1290707.html
If the government grants an exemption, it's up to them to make sure everything doesn't turn into a giant corrupt mess (see: boxing). |
Even without the antitrust exemption, the Committee for Oversight and Governmental Reform has incredibly wide-ranging oversight and investigation powers, including just about anything that could affect Americans' health, safety and well-being (such as steroid use by teens - the original reason why the McGwire/Palmeiro panel was convened).
So yeah - this is a "legitimate" use of governmental resources - the real problem is that most of the congressmen participating don't know the first thing about the topic, apparently getting their information from TV or the Internet. Most are flubbing statistics, making specious inferences, ignoring football, blah blah chow meow. It's just not effective - and when every other congressman stands up to proselytize rather than question, it's not hard to see what the real motives are.