1.   Barr is as conservative as Schumer is liberal, but they seemingly share a pugnacious delight in grilling opposing witnesses.

2.   Several of his supporters grilled witnesses from the EPA and the FBI about terrorist concerns.

3.   But anti-Estrada senators want an opportunity to grill witnesses directly, which could prolong the trial.

4.   No Democratic senators attended the hearing of two Senate Foreign Relations Committee panels, where Brownback and Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., grilled the administration witnesses.

5.   Under the trial rules approved Wednesday, senators will be allowed to grill witnesses directly for two minutes each.

6.   Under the rules, senators will be allowed to grill witnesses directly for two minutes each.

7.   They grilled every witness, however minor, right down to a meteorologist called simply to describe the conditions on the night Louise disappeared.