Since they like sports so much, perhaps they understand this message from the American people...Strike three! Yer out!

From the NY Times: A day after a dramatic, nationally televised hearing that pitted Roger Clemens against his former personal trainer and Democrats against Republicans, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said Thursda...

As long as taxpayers subsidize professional sports on a national level, as long as Congress exempts those sports from certain laws, then professional sports are part of the business of Congress.

Congress has another interest in youth athletics, too, of course.

Given the psychological space that sports hold in most American's minds, it's far easier to declare them to be a blanket, no-enhancement drugs zone categorically, rather than seek to regulate them one sport at a time, one level at a time.

our esteemed legislators have been devoting an inordinate amount of time lately investigating the internal operation of professional sports leagues.

Henry Waxman, for one, wishes he hadn’t.

This is not quite accurate. Waxman is not saying the committee shouldn't be investigating the steroid issue. He is saying that he wished that Clemens had not insisted on a public hearing.

The only reason they had a hearing was because Clemens wanted one. The investigatory process involves more than hearings.