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 * After numerous complaints from former National Football League players about poor health insurance and insufficient disability compensation and coverage, the House Judiciary Committee held hearings on the issue in June, 2007.


 * After police raided a farm owned by Atlanta Falcons Quarterback Michael Vick and found evidence of dog fighting in May, 2007, Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell urging him to rebuke Vick.


 * The House unanimously passed a resolution in honor of International Women’s Day on Mar. 6.


 * The House passed a resolution honoring the leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, Dr. John Garang de Mabior, whose group resisted the Sudanese government’s violent rule, on Mar. 5.


 * The House passed a bill formally commemorating Revolutionary War Brigadier General Francis Marion, the namesake of Washington, DC’s Marion park, on Mar. 5.


 * Rep Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) criticized NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in Feb. for not running a border control advertisement during the Super Bowl which would have told viewers, “It'll be your responsibility to prevent the entry of terrorists and their weapons into the United States.”

investigating steroid use in the National Football League (NFL)]] in 2005, and requested NFL documentation of its 15-year drug screening program.
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