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The House Oversight Committee has requested that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and DeMaurice Smith, head of the player's association, appear before Congress to explain the delay in testing for human growth hormone.

In a letter sent to Goodell, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) ask why testing, slated to begin the first week of the football season, has not yet been implemented.

“We believe the league and its players remain best positioned to implement an HGH testing regime, but concerns have been raised about the status of these efforts,” the two congressmen said in a statement. “The purpose of this meeting is to understand the concerns of the players and the league and to strongly convey our universal interest in protecting the health of millions of younger athletes across the country.”

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