21.   Only Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., dissented, committee aides said, for reasons that could not be learned Thursday night.

22.   Potential hearing witnesses mentioned by committee aides include Clinton confidant Bruce Lindsey, friend and golfing partner Vernon Jordan, and White House secretary Betty Currie.

23.   Republican committee aides say the lawyer-client privilege, a fundamental right in American law, does not extend to Congress.

24.   Republican committee aides are also drawing up counts of obstruction of justice and witness tampering, and abuse of power.

25.   Rodriguez said she met with House ethics committee aides in May to discuss these and other charges she made against Reynolds and then filed the complaint with OFEP.

26.   Republican committee aides say a perjury count has the best shot at passing the House, and even that would be on a cliffhanger vote.

27.   Sen. Kent Conrad, right, gathered economic charts Tuesday as he worked with House and Senate budget committee aides to prepare for a news conference.

28.   Senate committee aides said that a president had three ways to formalize legally binding agreements.

29.   Since being named chair of the Committee on Indian affairs, Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell sent letters to nine committee aides demanding their resignations.

30.   Take, for instance, the pledge to operate with fewer committees and fewer committee aides.