Word: processing
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...ultimate jurors are the constituents in every member's district or state. That's particularly true in the House, where, according to the Constitution, any impeachment process must begin and where all 435 seats will be contested in November. Which is why Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich spent part of the past four months trying to work out a process for dealing with a report from Starr that maximizes the potential political benefits for Republicans while shielding them from charges of excessive partisanship...
...process will probably begin with a phone call from Starr to Gingrich with the news that a report is on its way. Since Congress is scheduled to be in town for just four more weeks between now and November, actual impeachment proceedings almost certainly couldn't happen this year. But if Starr has a report to deliver, the House will be forced to deal with it. "We can't just sit on it until January," says a senior House Republican. And so, within days of Starr's notification, the Speaker will bring a resolution to the House floor limiting access...
...hold "informational hearings," bringing forward a full parade of witnesses, in order to make Starr's findings public without having to proceed directly to an impeachment inquiry. But Hyde said last week that "I don't know what the hell an informational hearing is." And others close to the process predicted that the committee was more likely to release a sanitized summary of Starr's report...
...influence Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's decision to ignore Clinton's pleas and detonate underground nuclear tests in response to India's--but foreign leaders are sensitive to shifts in American presidential power. Despite Clinton's warnings, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thumbs his nose at the peace process and Saddam Hussein continues to harass U.N. arms inspectors in Iraq. And the President's China visit--which seemed so triumphant, what with his televised human-rights debate in Beijing and lavish praise for President Jiang Zemin--was immediately followed by a Chinese crackdown on 20 dissidents and an embarrassed...
...mixed record in solving terrorist attacks outside our borders," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. Arrests have been made in only 8 of the 24 major attacks against American targets since 1979, and Washington has retaliated militarily only once. "Even in the cases that have been solved, the process has often taken four or five years," Waller adds...