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Article: AP: Congress Said to Investigate Palmeiro
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- September 20, 2005
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HOWARD FENDRICH, AP Sports Writer
AP Online
09-20-2005
Dateline: WASHINGTON
Congressional investigators looking into whether Rafael Palmeiro lied under oath are interviewing players who know him, including a Colorado outfielder suspended this year for steroids, The Associated Press has learned.
Palmeiro testified to the House Government Reform Committee in March that he never had used steroids. The Baltimore Orioles slugger, one of four players in history with 3,000 hits and 500 homers, was suspended by Major League Baseball for 10 days in August for failing a drug test.
A congressional source familiar with the committee's work, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because the ...