After a private meeting in Washington with officials from the league, the union, the United States Anti-Doping Agency and the two members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the league and two members of the committee said an agreement had been reached to begin H.G.H. testing imminently. But the union said that was not the case. [...]
Representatives Darrell Issa, Republican of California, and Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland, called Friday’s meeting to pressure the league and the union to reach a testing agreement. [...]
According to people in the meeting, Issa said he would try to help the union obtain the scientific information it wanted and have it studied independently. The World Anti-Doping Agency has declined to make public information about the population studies used to establish the threshold for a positive H.G.H. test. Even if Issa were successful in getting the information, it seems unlikely that full testing could start within a week. And if the union does not get the information, it is steadfast that it will not allow testing to begin.
