21.   Approved by the House, the measure faces one Judiciary Com mittee hearing before debate by the full Senate.

22.   Arizona Republicans J.D. Hayworth and Bob Stump on Monday joined Colorado Republican Scott McInnis in requesting hearings before the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.

23.   At a farm bill hearing before the Agriculture Department Tuesday, a Wyoming sugar beet grower, Richard McKamey, even thanked USDA for reversing its stance.

24.   At a hearing before the House Banking Committee on Wednesday morning, Treasury officials will lay out the anti-counterfeiting features they are considering.

25.   At a new series of hearings before that committee beginning Tuesday, some economists and tax lawyers will side with the administration on this point.

26.   At a hearing before well-informed members, CIA officials would have to answer questions about obstruction of justice in the case of the American innkeeper, Michael DeVine.

27.   At a hearing before the House Civil and Commercial Law Committee, some speakers questioned the need for the legislature to spring to the defense of their marriages.

28.   At a public hearing before the administrative judge this month, Bryson will get his say.

29.   At the hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Wallace Dixon, prosecutors will say Dixon should keep Mitnick behind bars until his trial.

30.   At issue in the hearings before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee is how the agents changed the guidelines by which they were allowed to fire weapons.