In those instances, hearings were convened in majestic hearing rooms with powerful officials in the witness chairs under the glare of television cameras.
In both instances, the hearings came to a halt because the arbitrator, Fredric Horowitz, had to attend to other commitments.
The House Veterans Affairs Committeee, for instance, has scheduled hearings on the disorder next week, with a focus on soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
It would be better to debate changes in the structure and regulation of Wall Street openly, for instance in congressional hearings or before the SEC.
Recently, for instance, the House Financial Services Committee held hearings focusing on the potential risks to pensioners and the financial system caused by hedge funds.
This week, for instance, the European Commission plans hearings on a complaint that Apple's iTunes online music store violates competition rules by charging Britons more than other Europeans for downloads.
In those hearings, for instance, Sir Richard Billing Dearlove, the chief of the Secret Intelligence Service known as MI6, testified that "it is a valid criticism" to say that Mr. Blair's dossier improperly indicated that British forces were under threat from Iraqi chemical and biological weapons that could be deployed within 45 minutes.
Prior to the hearings, for instance, initial HuffPost/YouGov polling showed Kavanaugh's ratings to be relatively stable in comparison to the drop measured by several other polls.
Starting Thursday morning, for instance, federal judges conducting sentencing hearings had to decide whether to ignore the federal sentencing guidelines entirely, to rely on only those aggravating factors that had been proved to the jury or to carry on as before pending definitive guidance from higher courts.
In some instances the fact that the hearings were being held was kept secret.
