Hearings
- May 6, 1987: Iran-Contra affair hearings began
- October 23, 1987: Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination: Senate rejected Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States
- February 3, 1988: Senate approved Anthony Kennedy's nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States
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“Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time. ...Its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.”
—Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)
“Aged ears play truant at his tales,
And younger hearings are quite ravished,
So sweet and voluble is his discourse.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)