Tobacco Documents Online

JOHN D. GALLETTA FOR YOUR INFORMATION Date: November 5, 1997 To: Distribution Attached are materials from today's McCain/Hollings press conference: • Press release by McCain, with accompanying fact sheet on the tobacco settlement, bullet points on the growers provision, prepared remarks by McCain. and letter to colleagues from McCain and Hollings. • Press release by Hollings, with accompanying Q&A on the LEAF Act. • Press release by Breaux, with accompanying fact sheet on tobacco. Two other items, a CRS overview of the settlement (50 pp.) and a copy of the bill itself (238 pp.) were distributed at the press conference but are not being passed along due to size. The Washington Relations Office has received both of these. We're also receiving a transcript of this press conference. Please contact me if you need a copy. Distribution To: Carnovale, Mary Colby, Dolly Daragan, Karen Duggan, Juanita Firestone, Marc Goldman, Rochelle Gomez, Frank Han, Vic Hoe1, John Laufer, David Liebengood, Howard McCormick, Brendan McKittrick, Beverly Merlo, Ellen Nicoli, David Parrish, Steve Reese, Robert Roberts, Peggy Scott, Gregory Scully, Timothy Woodward, Ellis