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Henry A. Waxman said Wednesday's hearing unnecessarily embarrassed Roger Clemens, who he thought did not tell the truth, as well as Brian McNamee, who he thought was unfairly attacked by Republicans. "I think Clemens and McNamee both came out quite sullied, and I didn't think it was a hearing that needed to be held in order to get the facts out about the Mitchell report," Waxman said. "I'm sorry we had the hearing. I regret that we had the hearing. And the only reason we had the hearing was because Roger Clemens and his lawyers insisted on it."

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Roger Clemens, AP Roger Clemens, AP
February 15, 2008  05:06 AM ET

Gee ****....misunderstanding here....Clemens basically revealed his split personality.

Everyone is dirty. Congress is not some "clean" entity. You involved in something that is illegal, well then everyone who is involved in it is illegal - whether they believe so - or not.

Clemen's lawyer is - what he is. Give me money and I will do something for you honey.

He wanted the hearing and he got it.

Clemens' friend - Andy told the truth and Roger confirmed when he said that....Andy would tell me if he did steroids of HGH, that is how close of friends we are.

Roger....Andy confirmed that you told him the very same thing. That is why they have hearings....because people....get caught-up in their own web of - lies.

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February 15, 2008  06:19 AM ET

I agree with the senator. What a mess. The government should get back to the business of running the government, you know like the war , the economy, the National debt.......

February 15, 2008  07:09 AM ET

Mitchell warned you and MLB not to do this. He urged MLB to implement independent testing and focus on the future instead of persecuting past users. MLB gave implied consent to steroid use for over 20 years. Forget about what happened in that 20 years. You can't take it back.

February 15, 2008  07:35 AM ET

Once again, the smoking gun is in Selig's hand and yet he walks away scott free. He is the one that let the drugs be used so he and the owners could reap the benefits. He is the one later that hired his friend Mitchell to do the report and get the govt. involved. He's the one that later made it look like it was a total surprise to him that it was as widely used as it was and some how he gets a contract extension and all the players that padded his and the owners pockets with money are the ones being scrutinized and ridiculed. Someone should put a bullet in Selig's head cutting the head off the snake so we can all move on.

February 15, 2008  07:55 AM ET

Tribe, lay as much as that blame as you can upon the union leadership, too. Because without the union leadership taking the stance that they have since the cocaine scandals, where they set this precedent, way back in the eighties, and formualting their ill adised stratgey of protecting the wrong doers, Selig would not have had the necessary means to let this travesty against the game occur. Selig's crime is that he glady fiddled while the players juiced their into the record books becaue the union would not allow proper in depth testing to be performed on the players membership. The union was negligent in their repsonsibility to the membership. They failed to protect the players that actually needed protection: the innocent ones. The usage of PEDs was covertly allowed to continue under Seligs' leaderhip because through that usage it allowed the players to assault the record books and it brought people by the millions back to the game to contribute their hard earned dollars to flood MLB coffers to their present state of over flowing.

February 15, 2008  08:16 AM ET

This is all Roger's fault, He wasn't the only one in the Mitchell Report; there were countless names. HE wanted to be stubborn and drag this out, so Roger dug his own grave.

February 15, 2008  08:31 AM ET

Did this guy just admit that Clemens forced the US House of Reps to divert itself from important business on his own personnel request? You decide what your committee does Waxman don't try and place the blame elsewhere for having that ridiculous soap opera be dragged out in your committee.

February 15, 2008  09:05 AM ET

I agree with you JC, I just don't have a face to go with the Union so I pounded Selig. But you know me and have seen my posts the last couple of days, I blame the union just as much. I think they should all be relieved of their duties after all this is over with.

February 15, 2008  09:51 AM ET

I think Roidger and his attorneys were trying to bluff, thinking that Congress wouldn't have a hearing because the Mitchell report recommended against it and that the committee wouldn't take anymore time to deal with it. By pushing for a hearing and not getting one, they would still have the presumption of innocence on their side.

The problem with bluffing is that sometimes you get called.

February 15, 2008  10:19 AM ET

Clemens insisted on Congress calling a special hearing?
Wow, Roger is more poerful than I ever thought.

February 15, 2008  10:20 AM ET

Clemens is a very imoptent man. very impotent......

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February 15, 2008  10:39 AM ET

Well he does have that extra arm growing out of his forehead...

February 15, 2008  10:40 AM ET

Clemens is a very imoptent man. very impotent......

4192jc

Well I hear that is what the juice will do to you.

February 15, 2008  10:49 AM ET

Four sons do not genrally indicate impotence.

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February 15, 2008  11:00 AM ET

I heard Bush is thinking of pardoning Congress.

February 15, 2008  11:13 AM ET

Are they really his sons?

 
February 15, 2008  11:39 AM ET

Fancy Pants: no comment because whatever i say will just get me in trouble. :)

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