Sports and politics regularly intertwine, but one major issue has been taken to Congress and that is doping. Whether it is baseball, cycling, or an olympic sport, Congress has made athletes swear under oath that they didor did not use performance enhancing drugs. An example of this is Roger Clemens. The BALCO investigation went through many famous athletes, and included the names of stars around Major League Baseball. The government was running an inestigation on a drug distributer, which made thesefamous athletes take the stand. Many of them lied under oath.

Rafael Palmero and Roger Clemens were two famous athletes that lied under oath. However, Clemens got off free on the technicality that his trainer would not give him up. Politics plays a role because they decide who to investigate and what laws are made to prevent these athletes from doping. So far, they are way behind on anti-doping policies and fail to actually reprimand most of the athletes. Some athletes, such as Barry Bonds, ended up in jail for a while, but they tend to go after the high profile athletes only.