Washington ? Taking on baseball’s steroids problem once again, Congress kept the finger-pointing and tough questioning to a minimum. Maybe that’s because the people under the most scrutiny this time – Miguel Tejada, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens – were nowhere to be seen.

Commissioner Bud Selig and union leader Donald Fehr accepted responsibility for the sport’s drug boom, and the author of the Mitchell Report defended his findings in the same wood-paneled House hearing room that played host to a far longer and far more contentious session in March 2005.

It didn’t take long for the focus to shift to players Tuesday.

The hearing opened with word that Congress wants Tejada, the 2002 AL MVP, investigated for lying to federal authorities. The first witness, former Senate majority leader George Mitchell, testified he believes a former trainer’s allegations that he injected seven-time Cy Young Award winner Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone. And Selig told lawmakers that Bonds’ San Francisco Giants should have reported concerns about the home run king’s personal trainer.

The 4-hour, 15-minute session before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee also exposed what might be the latest drugs abused by the sport’s stars: Ritalin and Adderall, stimulants better known as treatments for hyperactive children. According to data provided to the committee by MLB and the union, a copy of which was obtained by the Associated Press, there were 35 “Therapeutic Use Exemptions” for drugs in 2006, of which 28 were for ADD and ADHD medications. In 2007, the exemptions skyrocketed to 111, of which 103 were for ADD and ADHD.

“It seems to be a little bit odd, said Dr. Gary Wadler, chairman of committee that determines the World Anti-Doping Agency’s banned-substances list. “I’m the guy who made the issue three years ago about amphetamines, and baseball said they didn’t have a problem with greenies.”

One of Mitchell’s recommendations was that baseball needs an independent agency to handle drug testing, and the data about ADD drugs supports that, Wadler said.