Thank you for your letters of December 5 and 8. As you know, when
the Committee met on December 3rd it stated that sanction hearings
would be held on December 10th if the House remained in session. I do
not have authority to change that. I will present your letters to the
Committee when it next meets on Wednesday at 9:30 a.m., in Room 2359-A
Rayburn House Office Building; but you should not rely on any change in
the Wednesday hearing date because I cannot unilaterally make a change
and you were given a weeks notice of this hearing when we last met.

You will be allowed one hour and a half for your presentation on
sanctions and can take whatever portion you desire for your own state-
ment and allot the remainder to other witnesses you may call. Thereafter
your counsel and Special Counsel to the Committee will each be given one
half hour to present arguments to the Committee on what sanction, if any,
should be proposed to the House.