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 Major League Baseball should enforce stronger rules against steroid abuse by players on its own, but Congress will require changes by law if necessary, leading lawmakers said Sunday.Sen. John McCain, the driving force behind changing how baseball polices performance-enhancing drug use, said Sunday stanley flask  he believes President Bush would sign a bill into law. There s not a doubt in my mind. He d love to,  said McCain, who accompanied Bush to Saturday s Army-Navy college football game in Philadelphia.He added that Bush, too, would prefer for baseball to act on its own.  I know that the president would like to see it done through collective bargaining and decision made by owners and labor,  said McCain, R-Ariz.Other lawmakers, including the top Republican in the Senate and the House s top Democrat, expressed similar sentiments as cries grew louder for baseball to act.        The executive board of the players  union starts its annual meeting Monday in Phoenix with the steroid issue on its agenda. Obviously, the steroids issue is something that was going to come up in our board meeting,  union head Donald Fehr sai stanley cup d Sunday.  That would have been the case quite apart from this. Gene Orza, the union s chief operating officer, and Rob Manfred, executive vice president of la stanley puodelis bor relations in the commissioner s office, have met several times since May to discuss Selig s call for more frequent testing and harsher penalties. Publicly, the union has shown a willingness only to discuss changes, no Gqwy Texas probes if kids alone before day care fire
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