The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee plans to unveil a new proposal this week to crack down on steroid use in sports, another sign of the growing determination by Congress to impose tougher testing standards and penalties on pro sports.

Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., told USA TODAY he's co-authoring the bill with Rep. John Conyers (news, bio, voting record), the top Judiciary Committee Democrat from Michigan. It would put the Justice Department in charge of developing "minimum standards" for testing and penalties. Participation in the program would be voluntary, but Sensenbrenner says there will be "incentives" to encourage pro sports leagues to sign up.

How this is going to work is beyond me in any way shape or form. They want to create a penalty system for baseball? How does this serve ANY governmental interest? If it were for criminal penalties, they would not be able to do it because that would create an "anti-protected" class (sports people) violating due process. Civil penalties? On what justification? And who is going to be responsible for this? Justice? That's not going to work. The government will have a "competative sports compliance agency?"

Will someone please get rid of this piece of crap?