51.   That is that investigations of high government officials should be conducted by an outside counsel to guard against conflicts of interest.

52.   The discovery that Wright had violated the House gift ban rule by encouraging lobbyists to buy his book was made by Richard J. Phelan, the outside counsel.

53.   The committee has been holding numerous private sessions on the matter and is reportedly deadlocked over whether to appoint an outside counsel.

54.   The committee is expected to appoint an outside counsel next week.

55.   The five Democrats on the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct want the committee to vote for a formal inquiry and hire an outside counsel.

56.   The Democrats stopped short of saying they would go to the House floor to call for an outside counsel themselves.

57.   The House Ethics Committee has begun serious negotiations on hiring an outside counsel for its investigation of Speaker Newt Gingrich.

58.   The Halas speech had been vetted by none other than Tagliabue, then the outside counsel for the league.

59.   The outside counsel to be hired by the committee thus has a big job ahead.

60.   The request for extra time came from James M. Cole, the outside counsel, and Johnson said it would amount to a delay of about four days.