The practice, known as pretexting, has been a previous focus of subcommittee hearings.

Anderson holds open his subcommittee hearings, which enrages the President.

He is one of the few who have attended every single one of our subcommittee hearings.

Healy, who had spent the previous day at a grueling Congressional subcommittee hearing, was agitated.

"Going to subcommittee hearings gets boring really fast," he said.

While only three senators appeared at today's subcommittee hearing, there is deep interest in the issue in Congress.

A much more direct involvement was also alleged during the subcommittee hearings.

Eitel took on the role of whistleblower, and reported his findings in testimony before several congressional subcommittee hearings.

No action was taken on the proposed legislation following the subcommittee hearing.

One Democrat at the subcommittee hearing predicted that the Senate won't consider it.