He carefully added that while that time was not yet at hand, delays in part because of White House resistance to committee requests for information would be likely to require an extension of the Whitewater inquiry.

Mr. Barlow said he had asked the Senate Armed Services Committee to help him in his appeals - so far unsuccessful - to the Pentagon and the G.A.O. report was prompted by a committee request.

The nominee seemed surprised by a committee request for a copy of his partnership agreement from Patton, Boggs & Blow.

That bid was rejected today by the Subcommittee on Accounts of the House Administration committee, which instead voted to reject committee requests for increases and to freeze spending at last year's levels.

Importantly, our governing statute requires GAO to perform such committee requests.

CBO sends its formal cost estimates for reported bills and estimates prepared at committee request to the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the reporting or requesting committee.

The committee requests written comments from relevant executive agencies.

We've already initiated all kinds of additional procedures in our own ranks to be sure we get everything the committee requests to them in a timely matter.

While General Jaruzelski has asked the Communist Central Committee to nominate General Kiszczak, he has not responded to a committee request that he reconsider running himself.