WASHINGTON (AP) -The congressional hearing involving Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and former trainer Brian McNamee was postponed Wednesday, The Associated Press learned.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform was informing witnesses that the Jan. 16 session will be pushed back, a lawyer involved in the hearing told the AP.
The lawyer spoke on condition of anonymity because the postponement had not yet been formally announced.
Plans are still in place for the Jan. 15 hearing before the same committee about the Mitchell Report on baseball’s Steroids Era. The witnesses that day are commissioner Bud Selig, union leader Donald Fehr and former Senate majority leader George Mitchell, the report’s author.
At the end of last week, Congress asked seven-time Cy Young Award winner Clemens, teammate and friend Pettitte and their trainer, McNamee, to testify under oath. Also invited were former Yankee Chuck Knoblauch and Kirk Radomski, the former New York Mets clubhouse attendance who was one of the main sources of evidence for the Mitchell Report.
But plenty has happened since that committee arranged the second hearing.
Clemens filed a defamation lawsuit Sunday against McNamee, who told Mitchell he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone in 1998, 2000 and 2001. A TV interview with Clemens aired, and the pitcher also held a news conference and played a recording of a 17-minute telephone conversation he had with McNamee.
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AP Baseball Writer Ronald Blum in New York contributed to this report.
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