Ollie quickly put out a statement correcting the story: It wasn't a senator but the committee counsel, John Nields, who did the questioning.

He was cleared by the House ethics committee, but the committee counsel quit after the case was dropped.

Robert Kennedy was the committee counsel; his brother served on the committee.

Whoever leaked this stuff to you, whichever committee counsel, is not only breaking the law; he's totally misrepresenting the facts.

The committee counsel pressed him hard on the falsification of the "historic chronology" that was going out as the Administration's version of the facts.

Nicole R. Nason, a committee counsel, said it was "premature to say exactly what a resolution of articles of impeachment would look like."

Equipment Held Diverted But Mark J. Davis, the committee counsel, countered that the practice had been permitted in committees only, not on the House floor.

"Would you describe in your own words," Jack Bonomi, the committee counsel, asked, "how you faked the knockout?"

Abbe Lowell, the Democratic committee counsel, asked about that.

The Democrats ventured a response by way of their committee counsel, Richard Ben-Veniste.