11.   Televised investigative hearings by Senate and House committees are expected to start in June.

12.   The chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, Fred Thompson, a lanky Republican from Tennessee, will preside over the televised hearings.

13.   The decision to hold another televised hearing before the seven justices raised the possibility that the court could issue a definitive ruling on the case before the weekend.

14.   The gravity of the televised hearing in the Florida Supreme Court showed how little cameras can matter.

15.   The inquiry could have included appearances by Lewinsky and a parade of other controversial witnesses in nationally televised hearings.

16.   The televised hearings gripped the public and made his conviction appear increasingly likely.

17.   The Senate Judiciary Committee, which evaluates Supreme Court nominees, was inclined to ignore the allegation but succumbed to public pressure and held a televised hearing.

18.   Then, in nationally televised hearings, Thompson asked Butterfield about the recording system.

19.   This week, Henry Gonzales, a Texas Democrat who presided over nationally televised congressional hearings that propelled Keating into infamy, suggested that history deserves an unambiguous verdict.

20.   Thompson, who gained fame a generation ago as the GOP counsel on the Senate Watergate Committee, plans televised hearings into the fund-raising this spring.