Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/baseball-star-called-to-account-on-steroids Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Baseball pitching great Roger Clemens testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government reform Wednesday to answer allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his career. The testimony is the latest twist in an ongoing controversy over the use of steroids in professional sports. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JIM LEHRER: Next, today's big collision over steroid use between a baseball star and his former trainer. Ray Suarez has our report. RAY SUAREZ: His Hall of Fame-caliber reputation on the line, pitcher Roger Clemens arrived on Capitol Hill this morning for the most consequential duel of his career.Clemens came before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to deny allegations he used performance-enhancing drugs. Opposing Clemens, and sitting just a few feet away, was his former friend and athletic trainer, Brian McNamee.McNamee's sworn statements about alleged steroid use by Clemens were a major focus of former Senator George Mitchell's December 2007 report examining drug use in baseball.REP. HENRY WAXMAN (D), California: If the Mitchell report is to be the last word on baseball's past, we believe we had a responsibility to investigate a serious claim of inaccuracy.It's impossible to believe that this is a simple misunderstanding. Someone isn't telling the truth.If Mr. McNamee is lying, then he has acted inexcusably, and he has made Mr. Clemens an innocent victim. If Mr. Clemens isn't telling the truth, then he has acted shamefully and has smeared Mr. McNamee. I don't think there's anything in between. RAY SUAREZ: The report quotes McNamee as saying he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormones at least 16 times in 1998, when Clemens played in Toronto, and in 2000 and 2001, when Clemens was a New York Yankee.Clemens has denied all of McNamee's allegations of steroid use. Instead, Clemens has said McNamee injected him with vitamin B-12 and the painkiller lidocaine.McNamee also alleged he provided performance enhancers to at least two other players, Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte and second baseman Chuck Knoblauch. Both players corroborated Mr. McNamee and were excused from testifying today.