"Open homosexuality is the problem," the retired general told a hearing of the Armed Services Committee.

In 1999, he told a congressional hearing on compulsive gambling that his losses totaled between $40 million and $50 million.

"We must have amendments if we are to help insure the integrity of our elections system," he told a Congressional hearing.

"In the folklore of the schoolyard, there are big boys and small boys," she told a parliamentary hearing last year.

"We knew from the beginning that we were betting on miracles in Cambodia," he told a Congressional hearing last month.

Earlier this year, division officials told a legislative hearing that such operations violate Federal law.

"To spot a bubble in advance requires a judgment that hundreds of thousands of informed investors have it all wrong," he told a Congressional hearing.

Last month, Mr. Babbitt told a Congressional hearing that he considered the California plan a model for the nation.

Ms. Steiger told a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee that she did not know how long the inquiry would take.

"In the long run, such a deficit is unsustainable," he told a European parliamentary hearing.