11.  Barr countered, pointing to enlargements of documents on an easel in the hearing room.

12.  Before being led to the hearing room, Blunt took from his duffel bag a wooden drumstick he had carried across Europe.

13.  Before being dismissed, the four sat in the front rows of a jammed congressional hearing room while lawmakers completed more than an hour of opening statements.

14.  Beyond the hearing room, the House Rayburn Building seemed a hushed theater awaiting the final act.

15.  A few chuckles arose in the hearing room.

16.  A full crowd representing various segments of the peanut industry was on hand for the hearing and spilled into an auxiliary hearing room.

17.  Accompanied by two lawyers and a parade of character witnesses, Tyson made his case inside the hearing room at the Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex here.

18.  According to Rogers, the atmosphere in the hearing room was heavily anti-environment with a sprinkling of avid pro-greenies.

19.  After Jewell left the hearing room, a senior FBI official acknowledged the harm caused to Jewell but stopped short of an apology.

20.  After he made the comments, some people in the packed hearing room audibly gasped.