1.   And, North continued, it was the committee counsel, John Nields, who was doing the questioning, not a senator.

2.   Abbe Lowell, the Democratic committee counsel, asked about that.

3.   Majority and minority committee counsels worked in close harmony.

4.   Officials there refused to accept the package and turned it over to the Justice Department, committee chief counsel Theodore Van Der Meid said.

5.   One was a Senate committee counsel, who advised her to write down what had happened.

6.   The Democrats ventured a response by way of their committee counsel, Richard Ben-Veniste.