[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 114 (Wednesday, September 3, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D889-D890]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
UNION VIOLENCE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 230, to 
revise certain provisions of the Hobbs Act of 1946 to close a loophole 
which exempts unions engaged in serious violence from existing federal 
prohibitions and penalties that apply to everyone other than labor 
unions in the United States, after receiving testimony from Edwin Meese 
III, former Attorney General, Department of Justice; Reed Larson, 
National Right to Work Committee, Springfield, Virginia; Michael H. 
Gottesman, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.; Julius 
Getman, University of Texas School of Law, Austin; Shucheng K. Huang, 
Winchester, Virginia; Glen Dale Yeatts, Pasadena, California; and John 
Benevento, Hamden, Connecticut.
ENCRYPTION TECHNOLOGY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and 
Government Information concluded hearings on the impact of encryption 
technology on public safety and law enforcement, focusing on the 
security needs of business and industry and the use of encryption by 
organized crime and terrorists, after receiving testimony from Louis J. 
Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of 
Justice; Dorothy E. Denning, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; 
William E. Baugh, Jr., Science Applications International Corporation, 
McLean, Virginia; Jeffrey A. Herig, Florida

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Department of Law Enforcement, Tallahassee; Robert R. Burke, Monsanto 
Company, St. Louis, Missouri, on behalf of the Overseas Security 
Advisory Council, Department of State; R. Patrick Watson, Eastman Kodak 
Company, Rochester, New York; and Kenneth Lieberman, Visa USA, San 
Mateo, California.
GLOBAL TOBACCO SETTLEMENT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to 
examine the scope and depth of the proposed settlement between State 
Attorneys General and tobacco companies to mandate a total reformation 
and restructuring of how tobacco products are manufactured, marketed 
and distributed in America, focusing on its long-term impact on 
children and the public health, receiving testimony from Mississippi 
Attorney General Mike Moore, Jackson; Matthew L. Myers, National Center 
for Tobacco-Free Kids, Washington, D.C.; D. Scott Wise, Davis Polk & 
Wardwell, and John R. Garrison, American Lung Association, both of New 
York, New York; and Lonnie R. Bristow, San Pablo, California.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, September 16.