* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an " improper physical relationship " with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

In July 1991, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, in the context of the outing of his press aide Pete Williams, dismissed the idea that gays posed a security risk as " a bit of an old chestnut " in testimony before the House Budget Committee.

The bipartisan House committee in front of which Clemens appeared, citing seven apparent inconsistencies in Clemens ' testimony, recommended that the Justice Department investigate whether Clemens lied under oath about using performance-enhancing drugs.

In a letter sent out February 27 to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman and ranking Republican Tom Davis said Clemens ' testimony that he " never used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone warrants further investigation ".

According to testimony by captured al-Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah, U. S. officials believed the White House was the intended target.

According to further testimony by Sheikh Mohammed, bin Laden preferred the Capitol over the White House as a target and Sheikh Mohammed revealed that the interview to Fouda was a lie to make the 9 / 11 attacks seem larger than they were.

Then, in testimony before the House Rules Committee on May 7-8, Post proved " a convincing speaker with a caustic tongue " and defended himself so successfully that Congressman Edward W. Pou, a Democrat presumed to be an enthusiastic supporter of Palmer, congratulated him: " I feel that you have followed your sense of duty absolutely.

A turning point in Kazan's career came with his testimony as a " friendly witness " before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1952 at the time of the Hollywood blacklist, which cost him the respect of many liberal friends and colleagues.

Kazan remained controversial in some circles until his death for testimony he gave before the House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HUAC ) in 1952, a period that many, such as journalist Michael Mills, feel was " the most controversial period in Hollywood history.

His controversial stand during his testimony in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HUAC ) in 1952, became the low point in his career, although he remained convinced that he made the right decision to give the names of Communist Party members.

Hiss was in effect found guilty of espionage ; the statute of limitations had run out for that crime, but he was convicted of having perjured himself when he denied that charge in earlier testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

The rest of the contemporary objections, however, were ad hominem, focusing on Bohm's sympathy with liberals and supposed communists as exemplified by his refusal to give testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Only on February 26, 1973, during testimony before the United States House Committee on Appropriations, did the U. S. military officially confirm that they had been utilizing UAVs in Southeast Asia ( Vietnam ).

In his testimony to the Canadian House of Commons Ethics Committee on December 13, 2007, Mulroney pointed out contradictory statements Schreiber has made over the years, including statements made under oath.

Judge Elliott found that Calley's trial had been prejudiced by pretrial publicity, denial of subpoenas of certain defense witnesses, refusal of the United States House of Representatives to release testimony taken in executive session of its My Lai investigation, and inadequate notice of the charges.

After damaging testimony from White House Counsel John Dean, Nixon requested the resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman in what has been described as a long and emotional meeting at Camp David.

Although McCarty's testimony helped to indict John Dolan, the district attorney — one of the powerful " House " faction leaders — disregarded Wallace's order to set McCarty free after his testimony.

On March 31, 2009, in testimony that the LA Times viewed as " remarkable ", Ronstadt spoke to the United States Congress ' House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment & Related Agencies, attempting to convince lawmakers to budget $ 200 million in the 2010 fiscal year for the National Endowment of the Arts.

In 1986 the AJC submitted testimony to the United States House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, on the topic of violence and discrimination towards Arab-Americans.

* March 2007: In testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg expressed support for H. R.

* February 2007: In testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, EPIC staff counsel Allison Knight testified in support of the Truth in Caller ID Act of 2007.

* March 2005: EPIC urged lawmakers to regulate Choicepoint and other data brokers in testimony before the House Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection.

The House Rules provide that the Chairman of a Committee presides over its meetings, maintains decorum and ensures that the Committee adheres to the House Rules governing Committees and generally acts in an administrative role respective to such issues as determining salaries of committee staff, issuing congressional subpoenas for testimony and issuing committee reports.

Quoting T. Allison, Assistant to the Board of the Federal Reserve System in his October 8, 1998 testimony before the U. S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Committee on Banking and Financial Services.

On March 18, 2009 Miller, a member of the Financial Services Committee, excoriated American International Group ( AIG ) Chairman Edward Liddy during testimony pertaining to the insurance company's controversial financial policies following its receipt of federal assistance.

On February 25, 2009, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke in testimony before the House Financial Services Committee stated he favored the SEC to examine the restoration of the uptick-rule.

The Chairman of the Board of Governors is called on to offer oral testimony about the report to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Financial Services to the House of Representatives.

* February 23 – After protracted testimony, the U. S. Senate Armed Services Committee rejects, 11 – 9, President Bush's nomination of John Tower for Secretary of Defense.

On August 3, 2006, Abizaid, in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the following about the situation on the ground in Iraq: " I believe that the sectarian violence is probably as bad as I ’ ve seen it, in Baghdad in particular, and that if not stopped, it is possible that Iraq could move towards civil war.

The House Armed Services Committee concluded that Denfeld's removal was a reprisal because of his testimony and a challenge to effective representative government.

Nebraska Congressman Howard Buffett alleged that Hillenkoetter's classified testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee " established American responsibility for the Korean outbreak ," and sought to have it declassified until his death in 1964.

On June 26, 2012, a judge of Oslo District Court apologized for the court's hearing of testimony ( on June 14, regarding contact with Child Welfare Services ( Norway )) that was covered by confidentiality ( that had not been waived at that point of the trial of Anders Behring Breivik ).

Cambone first came to the attention of the public at large during the testimony of Major General Antonio Taguba before the U. S. Senate Armed Services Committee, where he disputed the General's statement that prison guards were under the effective control of military intelligence personnel and interrogators.

The House Armed Services Committee concluded that Denfeld's removal was a reprisal because of his testimony, and a challenge to effective representative government.

:: From testimony before the Senate Committees on Armed Services and Foreign Relations, May 15, 1951 .— Military Situation in the Far East, hearings, 82d Congress, 1st session, part 2, p. 732 ( 1951 ).

On May 10, 1992, in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee he reported that, for the first time since 1945, the United States was not building any nuclear weapons.

" Buffett was also " one of the major voices in Congress opposed to the Korean adventure ," and " was convinced that the United States was largely responsible for the eruption of conflict in Korea ; for the rest of his life he tried unsuccessfully to get the Senate Armed Services Committee to declassify the testimony of CIA head Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, which Buffett told established American responsibility for the Korean outbreak.

In April 2009, the Senate Armed Services Committee published evidence pointing to the use of torture to elicit testimony about the alleged link between al Qaida and the former Iraqi government from detainees.

According to Beattie, the framework of the Palmer inquiry did not provide sufficient legal protection, leading to the refusal of twelve Corrective Services staff to refuse to give testimony.

* Transcript of James Comey ’ s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, May 15, 2007

In testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations a former US State Department official who had been a member of the American Commission at Paris, testified that the United Kingdom and France had simply gone ahead and arranged the world to suit themselves.

After World War II ended, the Congressional Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack received testimony on the intelligence failure.

Investigative efforts were hampered by the fact that CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKUltra files destroyed in 1973 ; the Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission investigations relied on the sworn testimony of direct participants and on the relatively small number of documents that survived Helms ' destruction order.

In November 1931, Dreiser led the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners ( NCDPP ) to the coalfields of southeastern Kentucky, where they took testimony from coal miners in Pineville and Harlan on the pattern of violence against the miners and their unions by the coal operators known as the Harlan County War.

In July 1973, as evidence mounted against the president's staff, including testimony provided by former staff members in an investigation conducted by the Senate Watergate Committee, it was revealed that President Nixon had a tape-recording system in his offices and he had recorded many conversations.

According to a testimony delivered by missionary Ralph L. Phillips to the U. S. State Assembly Investigating Committee, he was " forced to watch while the Japs disembowled a Chinese soldier " and " roasted his heart and liver and ate them ".

In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 16, 2003 Miller Baker stated:

" – 2007 testimony to Senate Foreign Relations Committee

In testimony to the U. S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice labeled Belarus, among six other states, as part of the US's list of outposts of tyranny.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism reported that on August 7, 2007, a Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) agent testified at the Holy Land Foundation trial that CAIR was " listed as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee ", that it had received money from the Foundation ( conflicting with Nihad Awad's Congressional testimony ), and that co-founders Awad and Omar Ahmad were " listed as individual members the Brotherhood Palestine Committee in America.