Congress expanded the scope of its ongoing probe into steroid use in sports, sending letters to seven sports leagues and organizations requesting information on their steroidtesting policies.

U.S. Reps Tom Davis (RVa.) and Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the leaders of the House Government Reform Committee that held a nationally televised hearing last month on steroid use in baseball, sent letters yesterday to the commissioners and chief executives of the NBA, NHL, MLS and ATP, the U.S. Soccer Federation, USA Track and Field and USA Cycling. The committee last week requested the same information from the NFL.

“This is the compare-and-contrast phase of the investigation,” said David Marin, Davis’ spokesman. No hearings have been scheduled, but the committee appears to be gathering the information in anticipation of holding another hearing. Baseball initially irked the congressmen by resisting their initial inquiries last month.

In the letters, Davis and Waxman said the baseball hearing was “the first in a series for the committee as part of its ongoing investigation into steroid policies for professional and amateur sports.”

None of the leagues and organizations on the latest list, however, is expected to be uncooperative. The committee gave the leagues until Tuesday to deliver the documents requested.

The committee asked for copies of the organizations’ current and past steroid policies and a description of how they were negotiated; lists of substances for which athletes are being tested; and summaries of the testing results. It did not ask that individual players be identified.

The committee did not request that information from the NCAA because most of the collegiate sports sanctioning body’s policy information is already available on its Web site. If the committee finds that information to be insufficient, the NCAA will receive a letter similar to the other organizations, committee spokesman Robert White said.

-Additional reporting by the AP