1.   Administration witnesses warned again Wednesday that grave results would follow from decertification.

2.   Democrats temporarily blocked the hearing even before it started, arguing that senior administration witnesses who could rebut Ritter are out of the country traveling with Clinton.

3.   Give the Clinton administration witnesses this.

4.   His description of Mexican corruption and the influence of narcotics cartels appeared grimmer than the accounts by other administration witnesses.

5.   Other Democrats lobbed softball questions at administration witnesses, but Lieberman asked tough questions and tried to position himself as objective and above the fray.

6.   The administration witnesses admitted there is no strategy to somehow weaken one army while bolstering the other.

7.   The back-to-back hearings featuring the administration witnesses capped a frenzied day on Capitol Hill over the wide-ranging China accusations, which comes just a week before Clinton visits China.

8.   The senators tried and failed to get the administration witness to spell out remedies.

9.   There was no insistent questioning of administration witnesses at the hearing, which members of the House Financial Services Committee were invited to attend.

10.   There was no insistent questioning of administration witnesses at the hearing.