# THOMPSON-HAYES: THE INSIDE OUT
## Chapter Twenty-Nine — The Testimony
The chamber was smaller than it looked on television.
That was the first thing. She had been in courtrooms and boardrooms and school gymnasiums and she had learned that rooms contracted when you walked into them rather than expanded the way imagination made them. The Senate Judiciary subcommittee chamber was significant in its architecture and intimate in its actual dimensions — seven senators at a curved dais, two cameras, a gallery, a table where she sat with Diana to her left and a glass of water she did not need.
Senator Margaret Holt was in the center seat. Sixty-two, precise, the kind of attention behind her eyes that said: *I have been in this room for thirty years and I know exactly which witnesses are wort
