21.   In one exchange, Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., tried to determine the investigative muscle of a new ethics commission created by the IOC.

22.   In response, the IOC has created an ethics commission and adopted other reforms.

23.   It was the final meeting of the presidential ethics commission before it presented its report on cloning to President Clinton.

24.   Mitchell served as chairman of an independent ethics commission assembled by the USOC.

25.   Monday, another report was issued, this by a United States Olympic Committee ethics commission.

26.   Plofsky would not say whether the ethics commission will investigate issuing a formal ethics complaint against Burnham.

27.   Samaranch also sought to clarify confusion about the mandate of a new eight-member ethics commission.

28.   She also sought a ruling from the state ethics commission.

29.   She asked for the ethics commission to examine her actions to see if they violated state ethics rules.

30.   She said the reforms were vaguely worded and the enforcement power of the ethics commission was suspect.