[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 36 (Monday, March 8, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D233]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DECEPTIVE MAILINGS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations held hearings to examine the nature and impact of 
sweepstakes run by certain major companies, focusing on their 
increasingly deceptive and aggressive marketing techniques, receiving 
testimony from Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr., 
Annapolis; Virginia L. Tierney, American Association of Retired 
Persons, Washington, D.C.; Eustace A. Hall, Brandon, Florida; Angela 
Hall, Tallahassee, Florida; Carol Gelinas, Bangor, Maine; Karol Carter, 
Troy, Michigan; Patti McElligott, Tyler, Texas; Stephanie Beukema, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Charles Doolittle, Inverness, Florida.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.