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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D889-D890 on Sept. 3, 1997.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
UNION VIOLENCE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 230, to revise certain provisions of the Hobbs Act of 1946 to close a loophole which exempts unions engaged in serious violence from existing federal prohibitions and penalties that apply to everyone other than labor unions in the United States, after receiving testimony from Edwin Meese III, former Attorney General, Department of Justice; Reed Larson, National Right to Work Committee, Springfield, Virginia; Michael H. Gottesman, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.; Julius Getman, University of Texas School of Law, Austin; Shucheng K. Huang, Winchester, Virginia; Glen Dale Yeatts, Pasadena, California; and John Benevento, Hamden, Connecticut.
ENCRYPTION TECHNOLOGY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information concluded hearings on the impact of encryption technology on public safety and law enforcement, focusing on the security needs of business and industry and the use of encryption by organized crime and terrorists, after receiving testimony from Louis J. Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Dorothy E. Denning, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; William E. Baugh, Jr., Science Applications International Corporation, McLean, Virginia; Jeffrey A. Herig, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Tallahassee; Robert R. Burke, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, on behalf of the Overseas Security Advisory Council, Department of State; R. Patrick Watson, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York; and Kenneth Lieberman, Visa USA, San Mateo, California.
GLOBAL TOBACCO SETTLEMENT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to examine the scope and depth of 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, focusing on its long-term impact on children and the public health, receiving testimony from Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore, Jackson; Matthew L. Myers, National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids, Washington, D.C.; D. Scott Wise, Davis Polk & Wardwell, and John R. Garrison, American Lung Association, both of New York, New York; and Lonnie R. Bristow, San Pablo, California.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, September 16.
