51. The panel begins to hold disciplinary hearings and may call witnesses, take testimony, and issue subpoenas. 52. The Republicans also insisted that live testimony be taken on the Senate floor if a majority of senators support it. 53. The Securities and Exchange Commission is scheduled to begin taking testimony from the Rigas family early this week. 54. They are going to take new testimony. 55. They had their chance to state their case last week to a committee of the National Academy of Sciences that took testimony here for a report to Congress. 56. To protect confidential commercial information, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson took that testimony in closed sessions. 57. Treasury securities tumbled Wednesday, after traders took Senate testimony by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to mean that a Fed tightening was probable. 58. U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson said he would clear the courtroom and take further testimony under seal if Boies sought to delve too deeply into sensitive pricing issues. 59. Unlike most other committees, the Labor Committee has a policy against taking oral testimony in confirmation proceedings from anyone except members of Congress and the nominee. 60. We have been told that the committee issued subpoenas and took deposition testimony and, further, that the committee has held other proceedings in executive session. |