You are watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. In september 1994, Senate Democratic leader George Mitchell announced the end of efforts to pass a Health Care Bill that year. The press conference followed a year and a half long effort by the Clinton Administration and members of congress. Up next on American History tv, senator mitchells press conference followed by reaction from republican leader robert dole. It is about an hour. George mitchell at the beginning of this congress, i said the passage of comprehensive Health Care Reform would be a high priority. I repeated that goal at the beginning of this year and said i would give it my close attention and all my energy. Two years ago, americans made the judgment at the polls that the nations problems had been subordinated for too long to problems abroad. The pressures on working middle income families from corporate downsizing, Defense Industry conversion, violent crime, college costs, and inflated Health I
Fbi of a ku klux klan informant by the name of thomas wrote. He described how he participated in beatings of civil rights activists during the freedom writers movement. Freedom riders movement. Did you inform the fbi about planned violence prior to that incident . Gary i gave the fbi information roughly three weeks before. And what did you tell them . Gary i stated i had been contacted by a Birmingham City detective, who wanted me to meet with a highranking officer of the Birmingham Police department. You mean the Birmingham Police men set up the beating of the freedom riders, and you told the fbi that . Gary correct. And were they beaten . Very badly, yes. Minutes withsed 15 absolutely no intervention from any Police Officer. The information was passed on to the bureau. We had our 15 minutes. Approximately 15 minutes after the freedom riders were attacked, a Police Officer went damn it,d said, god fam get them out of here, we are sending the crew in. Let me have you underscore what ex
Investigation into two fbi in fordhams. We will show you a clip of a ku klux klan in performance named thomas roe. He will detail how he participated in beatings of civil rights activists during the freedom riders demonstrations in alabama. Did you inform the fbi of planned violence . , i gave information to the freedom riders myself. What did you tell them . I said to them i have been contacted by a Birmingham City detective, who in turn wanted me to meet with a high racking highranking officer. The Birmingham Policeman set up the beating of the freedom riders . You told the fbi that . That is correct sir. Were they beaten . Says but they were beaten very badly, yes. Did the Birmingham Police give you the time you were promised . Yes, we were promised 15 minutes with absolutely no intervention from a Police Officer whatsoever. The information was passed on to the bureau. We had our 15 minutes. Approximately 15 minutes after , a policem riders geticer came to me and said out of here. U
About the freedom riders. What did you tell them . Had beened that i contacted by a Birmingham City detective who wanted me to meet with a high ranking officer of the Birmingham Police department to set a reception for the freedom riders. The Birmingham Police man set that up . That is correct. And then, were they beaten . They were beaten very badly, yes. Give you the time they promised you to perform the beating . Yes, sir. 15 minutes. No intervention whatsoever. The information was passed on to the bureau. We had approximately 15 minutes after the freedom riders were attacked, a Police Officer ran get to me and stated them out of here. Your 15 minutes are up. Let me have you underscore for the public exactly what it is we are hearing here. I am trying to understand. We just heard testimony that the fbi and the Birmingham Police alluded to allow people to come in and beat the freedom riders unimpeded for 15 minutes. Is that correct . That is what you heard and that is what happened.
To you and are of practical importance. If youre in this area or youre getting into this area. Basically, i want to cover not each to the same extent, but five different areas. The lobbying disclosure act, you already have some familiarity with with the previous presentations and particularly professor therbers presentation now. The registration act. The ethics rules, i know you touched on to some extent in the prior session. Revolving door, again, professor therber talked about some of the reforms its made in the 2007 law, but well get into the substance. And then just quickly some of the selfimposed or voluntarily implemented restrictions that the Obama Administration placed relating to lobbyists. So in terms of understanding how the lobbying disclosure act works, its a little bit weird because the registration is done by an organization or by a firm a lobbying firm or law firm, but its triggered in the first instance by an activity by an individual employee of either an organization