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- Bench Book, April 30, 1997
Rev: May 24, 2006 - Recording the Hearing (158kb) The Bench Book includes information on abandonments, aid pending, claimants and authorized representatives, continuances, disqualifications/recusals, disruptive participants, exclusion of witnesses and observers, ex parte discussions, explanatory remarks, forms, handling the press at a hearing, interpreters, oaths, postponements, recording the hearing, rehearings, requests for hearing tape or transcript, rescinding agency actions, scope of issue, subpoena/subpoena duces tecum, and telephone hearings.