[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 44 (Monday, April 10, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D342]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FUNERAL AND BURIAL CONSUMER PROTECTION
Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to examine issues 
facing consumers when preplanning, arranging and conducting funeral and 
burial activities, focusing on educating consumers about funeral-
related industries, exposing bad practices, and exploring the extent of 
consumer satisfaction, receiving testimony from Toni Moore, Paradise 
Memorial Park Cemetery Memorial Fund, Santa Fe Springs, California; 
Cheryl L. Lankford, Lankford Funeral Home, DeLand, Florida; Father 
Henry Wasielewski, Catholic Diocese of Phoenix, Tempe, Arizona, on 
behalf of the Interfaith Funeral Information Committee; Lamar Hankins, 
FAMSA-Funeral Consumers Alliance, Inc., San Marcos, Texas; Robert 
Shreve, American Association of Retired Persons, Washington, DC; Danell 
D. Pepson, Leesburg, Virginia; Darryl J. Roberts, Scottsdale, Arizona; 
and Irwin Karp, an incarcerated witness, via video teleconferencing.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.