In 1973, Senator Joseph M. Montoya, Democrat of New Mexico, had started hearings on the I.R.S.
Clive Betts, chair of the Commons CLG committee and Margaret Hodge, chair of the PAC, have started hearings on the draft local audit bill, which abolishes the Audit Commission.
The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, an expert group that second-guesses agency decisions, has started canceling hearings into next week.
Jeffrey Isaacs, an assistant United States attorney in Los Angeles, has started long-awaited grand-jury hearings to indict the bank for fraud in connection with its purchase in 1991-93 of Executive Life, an American insurance company.
It comes as the inquiry – led by a senior judge, Lord Justice Pitchford – has started preparing to hold public hearings looking at how undercover police officers have infiltrated hundreds of political groups since 1968.
Now that the investigation has started, I would like to call for public hearings so the voices of American consumers can be heard.
The 2008-9 baseason season has started, after the usual drama of off-season trades and the unusual drama of the Mitchell Report and Congressional hearings.
The public hearings, streamed live over the Internet, have been avidly followed, and the sense that many Victorians had that they can manage the risks of fire has started to seem dangerously close to complacency.
Even before the accident, the State Department of Motor Vehicles and the city Department of Consumer Affairs had started administrative hearings to revoke New York Apple's licenses.
Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, the highest-ranking Democrat on the panel, had started the hearings by outlining what he called "serious reservations" about Ms. Norton's nomination.
