He specifically cited legislation he has introduced that would bar American companies from financially supporting the games if the IOC does not change its practices.
Samaranch brought along some important allies, including former American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Kissinger was a key member of the IOC 2000 panel that drafted the reforms.
The reforms include a ban on IOC member visits to bid cities, the addition of 15 active athletes to the IOC, and new rules on age limits and terms of office – all designed to make the 105-year-old organization younger and more accountable.
“We did what we promised,” said Samaranch, who had delayed his appearance before the American congress until after the vote on the reform package.
Lawmakers also were poised to ask Spaniard about the $12,000 trip his wife and friend made in 1990 at the expense of Atlanta’s Olympic bid team. Fred Upton chairman of the panel, said statements by IOC members following the meeting last weekend give him little confidence that changes will be made.
“The conduct by IOC members and the bidding cities did not spring up yesterday and it will not go away simply because there are new rules written on a piece of paper,” he said.
Rep. Instead, he used it to retrace the IOC’s actions during the year since the allegations of vote buying erupted over the selection of Salt Lake City to host the 2002 Winter Games.
Samaranch said many of the reforms approved by the IOC last weekend already have been implemented, including a ban on future visits by IOC members to cities competing to host the games. And he assured the House of Representatives’ Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations that the rest of the reforms will be implemented before the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, Australia, are over.
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And this would be a great setting for you to be a true statesman of sport and announce that.”
Samaranch did not respond directly to Barton when he delivered his opening statement. Joe Barto reiterated his call for Samaranch to resign from the post he has held since 1980.
“I would like for you to announce today that you will resign,” Barton said “It’s time for some new blood and some new leadership. International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch told skeptical US lawmakers today that the IOC has become more open, accountable and responsive following widespread abuses in the selection of Atlanta and Salt Lake City to host Olympic games.

“I think we’ve cleaned the house and a fundamental reform package has been adopted,” Samaranch said in his first ever appearance before an American congressional panel.
But lawmakers greeted the 79-year-old Spaniard with open disbelief that the 50 reforms the IOC adopted last weekend in Switzerland will be implemented fully And one, Rep. International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch told skeptical US lawmakers today that the IOC has become more open, accountable and responsive following widespread abuses in the selection of Atlanta and Salt Lake City to host Olympic games. Their job was their all; for Dunwoody, brought up with the Ulster work ethic, it was natural that it should be and makes cutting ties all the harder.
DUNWOODY’S DEEDS
Born: 18 January, 1964 in Belfast
First winner: Game Trust at Cheltenham, 4 May, 1983
1,000th British winner: Flakey Dove, Cheltenham, 29 January, 1994.
1,500th British winner: Ashwell Boy, Newton Abbot, 13 October, 1997.
1,679th British winner: Yorkshire Edition, Wincanton, 5 April, 1999.
First century in a season: 1989-90(He has ridden at least 100 winners in Britain every season since)
Best season: 197 winners in 1993-94.
Champion jockey: 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95.
Grand National winners: West Tip (1986), Miinnehoma (1994).
Cheltenham Gold Cup winner: Charter Party (1988).
Champion Hurdle winner: Kribensis (1990).
Other big-race wins: Desert Orchid (Irish Grand National, King George VI Chase twice), One Man (King George VI Chase, twice), Another Coral (Mackeson Gold Cup), Very Promising (Mackeson Gold Cup), Riverside Boy (Welsh National), Ventana Canyon (Arkle Chase), Waterloo Boy (Arkle Chase, Castleford Chase), Florida Pearl (Royal & SunAlliance Novice Chase, Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup), Paddy’s Return (Triumph Hurdle), Morley Street (Aintree Hurdle), Cache Fleur (Whitbread Gold Cup), Topsham Bay (Whitbread Gold Cup).
Rode a 1,682-1 four-timer as a 7lb-claiming amateur at Hereford on 3 March, 1984.
Awarded MBE in June 1993.. His early feats included a four-timer while still a claimer with the late Tim Forster; and when he turned professional the following year his exploits on Michael Oliver-trained West Tip put him on the map and he eventually joined forces with David Nicholson, then master trainer Pipe.
He and his great rival Peter Scudamore perhaps paved the way for the modern generation with their complete dedication, professionalism and abstinence, almost tunnel vision.

It’s all about job satisfaction.”
Belfast-born Dunwoody, 35, son of Co Antrim trainer George, achieved that satisfaction more than any other jump jockey in British racing history, 1,699 times to be precise. And from the moment he rode the first it was apparent that quality was also going to be part of the equation.
Dunwoody, who started in the amateur ranks and went on to be three times champion, is acknowledged as one of the best stylists ever to throw a leg over a horse and, despite the odd brush with authority (a ban for putting Maguire through the wings cost him a Champion Hurdle win on Flakey Dove), a wonderful ambassador and role model for his sport. His career, though, has been remarkably injury-free; the worst previous damage in some 700 falls was the cracked sternum that failed to keep him out of the 1996 Cheltenham Festival.
It was fitting that, as it turned out, his career ended with a victory, on Twin Falls, and perhaps as appropriate that the final bow was not at one of the sport’s great theatres, but at one of the gaffs.
“Yes, Miinnehoma was good, and it has been great to ride great horses like Desert Orchid, and I’ve had some good times in Ireland,” he said yesterday, “but you can get the same pleasure as winning a big race easily on a good horse as winning by a short-head at Plumpton, if that its the horse’s level and you’ve ridden it well. However, advice from specialists all over the world was that, due to a lesion on his spine, he was in effect playing Russian Roulette.
But it was not until the last expert it was possible to see, Dublin neurosurgeon Jack Phillips, confirmed on Friday what all others had said that Dunwoody finally acknowledged it was time to draw stumps. Dunwoody rode three winners but an innocuous fall in a hurdle proved the final undoing.
It aggravated problems he had had with mobility and strength in his right arm, which in turn had been cause by neck damage in a fall more than a year earlier. His time in the saddle since had been frustratingly stop-start, but he had returned after a break seemingly as good as ever. Now 16 years of delight, admiration and even awe – as that moment at Aintree – for the racegoer are over.

Those who were at Perth on 21 August should in retrospect treasure the moment, for an era ended that day. ”
Dunwoody was the boy wonder the first time he won the National, on West Tip eight years previously, but he was a man on Miinnehoma. The loose one, Young Hustler, was giving me a lead, but he veered off at the Elbow.
“I started nudging Miinnehoma, just trying to keep him up to his work without putting a gun to his head. He spooked slightly at some cones and hesitated when the tunnel of noise from the stands hit him Then Just So appeared and mine ran on. I had to fill in a report for Martin Pipe after each race and about Miinnehoma I wrote that the horse had idled slightly in front and perhaps I should leave it a little later next time.