[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 22 (Friday, March 6, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D186]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS: BOSNIA AND IRAQ
Committee on Appropriations: Committee concluded hearings on proposed 
legislation making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 1998 for contingency operations in Bosnia and 
Iraq, and for recovery from natural disasters in the Northeast, 
California and Guam, after receiving testimony from William S. Cohen, 
Secretary of Defense; and Gen. Hugh H. Shelton, USA, Chairman, Joint 
Chiefs of Staff.
TOBACCO SETTLEMENT: CIVIL LIABILITY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on the civil 
liability protection provisions of S. 1530, to resolve ongoing tobacco 
litigation, to reform the civil justice system responsible for 
adjudicating tort claims against companies that manufacture tobacco 
products, and establish a national tobacco policy for the United States 
that will decrease youth tobacco use and reduce the marketing of 
tobacco products to young Americans, receiving testimony from Senator 
Conrad, Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore, Jackson; Stanley M. 
Chesley, Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; 
Richard D. Hailey, Indianapolis, Indiana, on behalf of the Association 
of Trial Lawyers of America; Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton, 
Denver; John R. Garrison, American Lung Association, Washington, D.C.; 
D. Scott Wise, Davis, Polk & Wardwell, New York, New York.
  Hearings continue on Thursday, March 12.