This is a big day for me personally because this is a piece of legislation that represents an agreement on a piece of legislation that I first introduced 4 years ago, and I want to talk a little about the personal aspects of this and how I got involved in the whole anabolic steroid precursor and designer steroid issue. My son, who I love and who I am lucky enough to get to spend some time with, and I work out fairly regularly together. And, fortunately, about 5 years ago, at one of our workouts, my son was talking to me about some of his friends and his colleagues and some of their training habits. It was also 5 years ago almost immediately after the Mark McGwire record-setting home run streak in Major League Baseball. My son said that he and his friends had all been talking about how they could get better, how they could get bigger, stronger, faster, hit the ball better; and one of the ideas they had, by virtue of some of the advertising and some of the stories they heard about Mark McGwire, was to use a substance called andro.
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Discussing personal motivations behind legislation on anabolic steroids.
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