21.   Opening the hearings earlier this week, Roth said that the IRS has sweeping police powers and little accountability.

22.   Several committees were clamoring to open hearings.

23.   Senior White House aides quietly opened discussions with allies on Capitol Hill to seek a censure resolution as an alternative to the Republican intention to open impeachment hearings.

24.   That question will be explored on Monday when the federal safety board opens public hearings in Indianapolis on the Roselawn crash.

25.   The appeal is seeking to to have court papers unsealed and to open hearings concerning legal arguments being made in the case.

26.   The Army has argued that opening the hearing could prejudice a jury and compromise the privacy of the people filing complaints.

27.   The committee opened its hearings Friday into the same portion of the Whitewater investigation that the House of Representatives began examining on Tuesday.

28.   The committee plans to open hearings Thursday on the measure.

29.   The court proceedings had been closed to the public until lawyers for New York newspapers appealed to open the hearing.

30.   The government continues to argue that open hearings would compromise investigations of terrorist threats.