This subcommittee and our full committee have too much other important work to do than have these same hearings over and over again.
PAGE A13 SAME HEARING, DIFFERENT VIEWS -- As the nation struggles with the aftermath of Sept. 11, the same words can carry widely different meanings to different people.
The court case resumed the same week NEB hearings for the pipeline marched forward, amid protests.
At the same time, these hearings, before the committees that actually had jurisdiction on the issues, were necessary to craft a solution that could accomplish the reform's main goals and then rally enough support to make it through Congress.
At the same time, in hearings described by the San Francisco Chronicle as resembling the water wars of the 1920s, Senator Dianne Feinstein called for a National Academy of Science study of federal water rulings aimed at saving the fisheries of the San Joaquin, and possibly suspending the Endangered Species Act during the current drought. .
He said the same in his confirmation hearings.
The same House panel held hearings in December and February featuring testimony from Jon S. Corzine, the firm's former chief executive who was once the governor of New Jersey, the firm's regulators and its former risk managers.
By the end of the weekend, even those who did not wish the nomination well had come to feel the same way, for the hearings became a political free-for all, in which senators demonstrated a willingness to stoop to anything, from cheap prosecutorial trickery to outright smears, in order to impeach witnesses whose evidence served the cause of the other side.
Your decision to publish an opinion piece by Chris Mullin (Birmingham bombings: police botched the case. But it shouldn't be reopened, theguardian.com, 11 February) on the same day as the hearings to resume the inquests into the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, and allow him to express his opinion that the inquests should not be reopened, was insensitive.
