Class differences showed up in the Thomas hearings too.

The Thomas hearings were an embarrassment filled with character attacks.

Democrats missed the opportunity to press these legitimate points in round one of the Thomas hearings.

Do we learn anything from looking back at the Thomas hearing?

It was the Thomas hearings that led her to run for office.

And he insisted that because they were held in public, the Thomas hearings could not have helped from being contentious.

Almost everybody complained at one point or another about the Thomas hearings.

She said the timing of last week's announcement was prompted only by the Thomas hearings themselves.

With the Thomas hearings fresh in the public mind, that part of the inquiry is drawing the most attention.

"The Thomas hearings could have been a precipitating factor," he said.