House (of Representatives) Staff Reviewing Palmeiro Documents

[Freddie Stubbs]

Congressional staff members are reviewing the documents related to Rafael Palmeiro's failed drug test and don't expect to say anything about what they've learned until next week.

The House Government Reform Committee wants to know whether Palmeiro committed perjury when he testified under oath in March that he had never used steroids. With the Baltimore Orioles slugger's permission, Major League Baseball turned over information related to his test last week.

"Government Reform Committee staff continues to review the documents related to Rafael Palmeiro's positive steroid test and will have no further comment on any questions related to the documents for at least a week," panel chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., and ranking Democrat Henry Waxman of California said in a joint statement Tuesday.

Palmeiro was suspended for 10 days by Major League Baseball on Aug. 1. The next day, Palmeiro agreed in a telephone conversation with Davis to let baseball release information requested by the panel.

more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050816/ap_on_go_co/bbo_congress_palmeiro_2

[SKKY]

1. Does anyone else think there's more important work to be done...

...than worrying about Rafael Palmeiro's use of Steroids? Call me cynical, but this just doesn't register on my radar, and I don't think it should register on Congress' either.

[Iowa]

4. Yeah, I thought the same thing when I read that...

The corporate agenda has been largely completed. This is how they busy themselves while piddling around waiting for further instructions from their corporate handlers.

[0007]

7. Yeah, I think the Pat Tillman lies that the Pentagon put out

is more important to investigate than this lying asshole Palmeiro.

[Freddie Stubbs]

8. At least it is one issue that

both Democrats and Republicans in Congress can agree on.

[Demeter]

2. So Glad They Have Nothing Else To Do

after trashing the economy, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the courts, and the economy.

[The Stranger]

3. Never mind the illegal war that most of all Americans now oppose.

They rush to the Hill to vote on perpetuating the dying of a dead woman, now this.

Get these people out of the houses of government.

[joeunderdog]

6. The only important point to be made here is that testifying

under oath before congress is not just "political posturing." People look at this as free advertising for their own political or personal platform. It's serious stuff and lying up there is not a baseball issue. They should make a statement about this. Maybe some of the politicians will take notice.

That baseball is not a Congress issue is another story.

[newscott]

5. I was under the impression that contempt of Congress

was also on the table. Chew on that Raffy.