[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 146 (Monday, October 25, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1192]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
HIGH-TECH FRAUD ON SMALL BUSINESS
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings to examine 
incidents of the high-tech fraud known as ``cramming'', the inclusion 
of unauthorized, misleading, or deceptive charges on a consumer's 
telephone bill, focusing on fraudulent Internet Web site services 
affecting small business, receiving testimony from Stanley J. 
Czerwinski, Associate Director, Housing and Community Development 
Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, 
General Accounting Office; Jodie Bernstein, Director, Bureau of 
Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission; Peter L. Franchino, Elam 
Biggs Bed and Breakfast, Grass Valley, California; David W. Pickering, 
Pickering Funeral Home, Mexico, Missouri, on behalf of the First 
Baptist Church of Mexico; Susan Toney, Creative Car Works, Maryland 
Heights, Missouri; Kelly A. Cramer, Protel Advantage, Inc., and David 
D. Cramer, Eau Claire Police Department, both of Eau Claire, Wisconsin; 
and Joel Bittner, North County Distributions, San Diego, California.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.