Admissions by major league players that they used steroids in the 1990's triggered an outpouring of congressional outrage in recent years, laying the groundwork for a high-profile hearing in the House of Representatives to be held on Thursday.

The completion of the two politically sensitive reports comes during a high-profile hearing into accusations of sexual misconduct by the Army's top enlisted man, Gene C. McKinney, the Sergeant Major of the Army, who stepped down from the investigating panel in February.

Additional high-profile hearings, such as Winnie Mandela's testimony, were also televised live.

Viewers of the high-profile hearings were often annoyed by Biden's style.

But no sooner had New York's newest senator presented her plan than she found herself answering another round of questions about ethics, even as a high-profile hearing into former President Bill Clinton's last-minute pardons was being held across the Capitol complex.

She held high-profile hearings on the mistakes of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.

The issue burst into the open in recent days as the Senate and House took starkly different approaches to the prison abuse inquiry, with the Senate holding a series of high-profile hearings and the House one public session.

Both men have held high-profile hearings on television violence in the last several weeks, and both have strongly suggested that Congress might have to impose some kind of rating system or time restriction on broadcasters if they did not take action on their own.

This was true even though the issue has attracted widespread attention in recent months because of a public campaign financing law passed in New York City and high-profile hearings on campaign contributions - and abuses - held by the Commission on Government Integrity.

Solis held high-profile hearings on labor law enforcement following a summer 1995 sweatshop raid in El Monte that discovered more than 70 Thai workers existing in slave-like conditions.