Congressional "hearings" only occupy a slice of what consumes the time of lawmakers on Capitol Hill. However, hearings, especially blockbuster ones, are what the public often is aware of when they think about Congress. Watergate hearings. Iran-Contra hearings. Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh. Even the recent hearing before the
On This Day: American inquiry into the Titanic disaster starts. Before the RMS Carpathia and its Titanic survivors reached US soil on April 18, 1912, investigations were already being planned to discover what had happened, and what could be done to prevent a recurrence.
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