By BRIAN COSTELLO

Roger Clemens and a congressional committee have a date.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform invited Clemens to meet privately with their staff on Jan. 26 in advance of the Feb. 13 hearing where he will testify. Clemens agreed to the date.

“We look forward to sitting down with the committee staff on the 26th and with the full committee at its public hearing on February 13th,” Clemens’ lead attorney, Rusty Hardin, said in a statement. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) sent letters yesterday to Clemens, his former trainer Brian McNamee, Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte, ex-Yankee Chuck Knoblauch, and Kirk Radomski, the former Mets clubhouse employee turned steroid dealer.

Each of the witnesses was asked to appear for either a deposition under oath or a transcribed interview. Either way, the witness is legally obliged to tell the truth.

“The committee asks that you provide testimony about allegations in Senator Mitchell’s report … that you and other Major League Baseball players used performance enhancing drugs during your professional baseball career,” the letter to Clemens reads.

Clemens will speak to the committee five days before McNamee, who accused Clemens of using steroids in the Mitchell Report, has been asked to. The committee asked McNamee to meet with it on Jan. 31. McNamee’s lawyer, Earl Ward, said yesterday he was not sure if McNamee would be able to meet with them that day. McNamee has until Tuesday to accept the date or reschedule.

Pettitte, who also was implicated by McNamee for using human growth hormone, was asked to meet Jan. 30, and Knoblauch, also accused by McNamee of using HGH, was asked to come in on Jan. 24.

Radomski, who was the biggest source of new information in the Mitchell Report, was asked to speak Feb. 1, one week before he is scheduled to be sentenced in San Francisco on charges of money laundering and distributing steroids.