1.   Also, the person said, sponsors were told not to expect the Senate hearing to lead to the most serious changes contemplated in the possible legislation.

2.   At the least, Collins said, she hopes the hearings will lead to campaign finance reform legislation.

3.   Committee hearings also led to the internment of Californians of Japanese descent.

4.   It is unclear whether the Senate hearings will lead to any action, but computer users are watching carefully.

5.   Some members of Congress, meanwhile, were studying alternatives to impeachment, including the possibility that hearings could lead to a vote to reprimand or censure the president.

6.   That hearing also led to bipartisan reform legislation and U.N. approval of those measures.

7.   The hearings led Congress to recognize eye disease as a factor when it created the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Blindness.

8.   The hearings could lead to new agreements about how television projected winners and new legislation about how Americans vote.

9.   The hearings led to the issuing of international arrest warrants against the two Bosnian Serb leaders, increasing pressure on countries to arrest them.

10.   The hearings have led several senators to call for the impeachment of state Supreme Court Justice Peter G. Verniero.