BY THE NUMBERS
CONGRESS
Number of GOP House Judiciary members who served as prosecutors in the Senate trial: 13
Questions submitted to Clinton by the House Judiciary Committee: 81
Judiciary Committee staffers hired since committee received the Starr report in September 1998: 86
Judiciary Committee interns: 20
Members of Congress whose alleged affairs have been disclosed since the Lewinsky scandal broke: 5
SENATE
Number of hours in which the U.S. Senate has convened in 1999: 70.7 hours
Estimated number of hours in which the Senate met about impeachment during the same period: 60
Number of U.S. senators appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” since the impeachment trial opened: 38
PARTY FUND-RAISING IN LAST 13 MONTHS
Republican National Committee: $69.9 million
Democratic National Committee: $53.4 million
MONICA
Legal fees owed by Monica S. Lewinsky: More than $1 million
Number of gifts Lewinsky said she and the president exchanged: 48
Appraised value of hat pin that President Clinton gave her: $3
MEDIA
Number of satellite television trucks parked at the federal courthouse for Lewinsky’s first appearance before the grand jury: 22
Number of scandal/impeachment-related special reports by CNN: 144
Number of newspaper stories in 1998 that mentioned Lewinsky:
The New York Tmes: 3,376
The Washington Post: 2,456
The Los Angeles Times: 1,663
New China News Agency: 516
Singapore Straits Times: 181
The Jerusalem Post: 148
The Hindu (India’s daily national newspaper): 91
The Moscow Times: 31
Itar-Tass news agency: 27
The Jakarta Post: 13
The Moscow News: 4
The Nikkei Weekly: 3
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