In February 1968, when some of the most intense debates of the committee were occurring, Mr. Kerry was on a ship headed for Vietnam.
In addition, the new chancellor has signalled that fiscal tightening will be scaled back and will be less intense than when the committee has undertaken QE previously.
He says there was no discussions with the trust on this subject but there was an "intense" meeting of his committee on the issue.
Mr. Warner vowed, however, that the decision about whether to move ahead with the Osprey would be the subject of "the most intense scrutiny" by the committee.
The timing of the tax legislation is expected to work like this: Senator Grassley and Representative Bill Thomas of California, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, plan to spend next week in intense talks with their committee members and party leaders about what the tax bill should include.
Under even more intense political pressure, the committee stopped the Dubai Ports World's acquisition of P&O, the operator of several U.S. ports, including New York's.
But Willy Lam, of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said the competition for seats on the politburo standing committee was intense.
But somehow the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, and the Senate majority leader, Joseph Bruno, have not managed to signal their supposedly intense feelings to the committees where the Padavan-Grannis bill has been stuck for weeks.
Nonetheless, Burwell will not be able to escape what are likely to be intense grillings before congressional committees on Capitol Hill, where Republicans see an opportunity to remind voters of the stumbling rollout of the law.
PAGE A14 Missile System Questioned The administration's proposed missile defense system, which would cost $10.2 billion in 2005, faced intense questioning at a Senate committee hearing.
