Most of these congressional investigations are pedantic fluff, questions to garner political points with constituents, and well rehearsed answers/talking points. With the level of coaching CEOs at that level receive, both in general communications and relationship management as well as specific coaching for the investigation, there's almost no chance of anything truly earth-shattering coming out.
Maybe I'm just a sad, jaded individual contributor...
I guess these days CEOs are better prepared to dodge those kinds of questions.
What you were probably thinking of can be found at 2:00 in the video below. Seven tobacco industry CEOs testifying at once, affectionately referred to as the "seven dwarfs".
The Insider is in my opinion excellent, and highly recommended.
This goes contradictory to what they've communicated to their employees as of late.
I understand they can be speaking in false promises but it was interesting to see them all tow the line when asked.
My question now is, how do the employees of these companies feel about the public position their CEOs took yesterday on that?