21.   A House subcommittee chairman said he will recommend that the Securities and Exchange Commission step in to delay adoption of a derivatives accounting rule for U.S. businesses.

22.   A House subcommittee chairman said Wednesday his panel will investigate whether silicone breast implant makers kept the government adequately informed about the risks of the implants.

23.   A key Duma committee chairman said last week that the parliament is prepared to be hostile to the new government and its policies.

24.   A Senate subcommittee chairman said Thursday that he is reviving a proposal to assess a fee on people who enter the United States from Mexico and Canada.

25.   A small New Jersey company expects to market morning-after pills in about two months, its chairman said Monday.

26.   Afterwards, the Republican National Committee chairman said that despite their differences, he and McCain remain friends.

27.   Both stocks and bonds began the session lower on concern the Fed chairman might say something that would roil the market.

28.   Bush also drew flak from GOP presidential candidate Steve Forbes, whose national campaign chairman said Bush is headed due wrong.

29.   But in any case, the Fed chairman said, changes by the central bank would do little to help ease the economic crisis in Russia.

30.   But the chairman said he does not believe discussions are under way for a second site.