Pressed by Sen. John McCain to say when Major League Baseball will have a new steroids agreement with harsher penalties, union head Donald Fehr told Congress on Wednesday he thinks it could happen within a month. Fehr, baseball commissioner Bud Selig and officials from the National Football League, National Basketball Association and National Hockey League were called before the Senate Commerce Committee to discuss two proposed Senate bills that would standardize drug policies across sports. Three similar bills have been introduced in the House. The focus during the two-hour hearing, though, was on baseball -- much as has been the case since the House Government Reform Committee grilled Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, Selig, Fehr and others about steroids on March 17. Palmeiro, who emphatically told Congress that day he had never used steroids, was suspended Aug. 1 after failing a drug test. Five weeks after that hearing, Selig proposed toughening baseball's penalties, and five Hall of Famers, including career home run leader Hank Aaron, testified Wednesday in support of that plan. Fehr made public a less-tough counteroffer this week. McCain wanted to know why the process has moved so slowly, asking Fehr repeatedly: "Don't you get it?" "We're at the end here, and I don't want to do it, but we need an agreement soon. It's not complicated. It's not complicated. All sports fans understand it," McCain said. "I suggest you act and you act soon."