On Tuesday morning before a standing-room only crowd in Room 2154 of the Sam Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine — a man who almost single-handedly could give politics a good name — speaking in cogent and complete paragraphs commanded the entire room's attention.

Mitchell, the author of a 409-page report on the illegal use of steroids and performance-enhancing drugs by 86 Major League Baseball players was the ...

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