[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 123 (Tuesday, September 16, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D950-D951]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Gen. Michael E. Ryan, USAF, to be Chief of Staff, United 
States Air Force, Adm. Harold W. Gehman Jr., USN, to be Commander-in-
Chief, United States Atlantic Command, and Lt. Gen. Charles E. Wilhelm, 
USMC, to be Commander-in-Chief, United States Southern Command and for 
appointment to the grade of general, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT FRAUD
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Financial Services and Technology concluded hearings to examine the 
widespread growth of fraud using financial institutions, focusing on 
national security implications, organized crime involvement, and the 
types of counterfeit financial instruments being circulated, after 
receiving testimony from Charles L. Owens, Chief, Financial Crimes 
Section, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Dana 
Brown, Deputy Special Agent in Charge, Financial Crimes Division, U.S. 
Secret Service, Department of the Treasury; Robert

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M. Edmund, Edmund Scientific Company, Barrington, New Jersey; Dennis 
Brosan, Visa U.S.A., Inc., Washington, D.C.; Roger Leblond, Pacific 
Southwest Bank, Corpus Christi, Texas; and Diana Christiansen, Provo, 
Utah.
TOBACCO ADVERTISING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings to examine the effect of tobacco advertising and marketing on 
children and the advertising restrictions included in 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, receiving 
testimony from Matthew L. Myers, National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids, 
and Shirley Igo, National PTA, both of Washington, D.C.; Alfred Munzer, 
Washington Adventist Hospital, Takoma Park, Maryland, on behalf of the 
American Lung Association; Joseph R. Difranza, University of 
Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, on behalf of STAT (Stop 
Teenage Addiction to Tobacco); and D. Scott Wise, Davis Polk & 
Wardwell, New York, New York.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CAMPAIGN FINANCING INVESTIGATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings to 
examine certain matters with regard to the committee's special 
investigation on campaign financing, receiving testimony from Karl 
Jackson, U.S.-Thailand Business Council, Beth E. Dozoretz, Democratic 
National Committee, Rawlein Soberano, Asian-American Business Round 
Table, and Clarke Southall Wallace, all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.