The subpoenas ask for the 38, 000 documents a court official in Minnesota determined to be non-privileged on Feb. 10 and 1, 114 documents that Brown and Williamson was ordered to turn over last year by a Minnesota judge.
House Commerce Committee Chairman Tom Bliley (R-Va.), after consulting with the ranking Democrat on the committee, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), served subpoenas to Geoffrey Bible of Philip Morris, Steven Goldstone of RJR Nabisco, Nicholas Brookes of Brown and Williamson, Laurence Tisch of the Loews Corp.