31.   He also conducted hearings of his own to determine the facts of cases involving youths sentenced in his court.

32.   He conducted hearings on sweatshops like the one discovered in El Monte, a suburb of Los Angeles, where laborers from Thailand were kept in virtual slave conditions.

33.   He decided to conduct hearings and invited the Massachusetts Democrats to participate.

34.   He issued his ruling two weeks after he conducted a hearing on the matter in Santa Ana, California.

35.   He organized and oversaw a staff of trial examiners who fanned out across the country to conduct hearings when violations of the act were alleged.

36.   He said that he would testify to the Ethics Committee if it conducted hearings.

37.   He said the hearings could be conducted by any one of three Senate committees or a joint committee of both houses.

38.   He runs into heavy criticism from Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., who is conducting hearings on the incident.

39.   He spent nine months in jail before an immigration judge conducted a hearing at which the immigration agency declared that he should be deported.

40.   Hearings were conducted and the judge made his rulings.