Good evening. And he represents rhode island in the United States senate. Thank you. You see any number . The Senate Judiciary committee, most importantly, is it sort of its customary. Let me welcome senator sheldon whitehouse. Thank you all. I think the routine here if i talk for about 10 minutes, then we have question and answers. So let me start by thanking you for coming out. And thank you for the interest in this book. I worked pretty hard on it. As if you get around to reading it, youll see, its pretty dense stuff. I would describe it as more or less equal parts textbook if that doesnt scare you off detective story and warning flare. And as we talk about it there are two concepts i want to put in your mind. First because theyll help illuminate rest of the conversation. The first is something called agency capture or regular battery capture, which is a phenomenon that goes way back into our history. And you might think of some of the early episodes of agency capture or regulatory
The Senate Tavern and house. If you judge by fords theater in washington, d. C. , its about 14 miles southeast of there. What happened at about midnight when the calendar turned from april 42, 52, 1865, here in this tavern, John Wilkes Booth had been on the run. He shot Abraham Lincoln about ten, 15 or 10 20 p. M. , and he met up with one of his conspirators, david harold, across the 11th street bridge. And they met up at a high point and they rode straight here. This was their intended because this was a house of conspiracy. It was owned by mary surratt. She live here. It was a country tavern that a man rented it and ran it for her. And then she was living in her house in washington, d. C. , her boarding house. So booth and david harold arrived here and they pounded on the door. The innkeeper, john lloyd, was asleep and they pounded on the door and again and in then they let booth and david harold. Then they came in the side entrance, not through the front door. And then booth said, f
The Senate Tavern and house. If you judge by fords theater in washington, d. C. , its about 14 miles southeast of there. What happened at about midnight when the calendar turned from april 42, 52, 1865, here in this tavern, John Wilkes Booth had been on the run. He shot Abraham Lincoln about ten, 15 or 10 20 p. M. , and he met up with one of his conspirators, david harold, across the 11th street bridge. And they met up at a high point and they rode straight here. This was their intended because this was a house of conspiracy. It was owned by mary surratt. She live here. It was a country tavern that a man rented it and ran it for her. And then she was living in her house in washington, d. C. , her boarding house. So booth and david harold arrived here and they pounded on the door. The innkeeper, john lloyd, was asleep and they pounded on the door and again and in then they let booth and david harold. Then they came in the side entrance, not through the front door. And then booth said, f
Good evening. And he represents rhode island in the United States senate. Thank you. You see any number . The Senate Judiciary committee, most importantly, is it sort of its customary. Let me welcome senator sheldon whitehouse. Thank you all. I think the routine here if i talk for about 10 minutes, then we have question and answers. So let me start by thanking you for coming out. And thank you for the interest in this book. I worked pretty hard on it. As if you get around to reading it, youll see, its pretty dense stuff. I would describe it as more or less equal parts textbook if that doesnt scare you off detective story and warning flare. And as we talk about it there are two concepts i want to put in your mind. First because theyll help illuminate rest of the conversation. The first is something called agency capture or regular battery capture, which is a phenomenon that goes way back into our history. And you might think of some of the early episodes of agency capture or regulatory
In the United States senate. Thank you. You see any number . The Senate Judiciary committee, most importantly, is it sort of its customary. Let me welcome senator sheldon whitehouse. Thank you all. I think the routine here if i talk for about 10 minutes, then we have question and answers. So let me start by thanking you for coming out. And thank you for the interest in this book. I worked pretty hard on it. As if you get around to reading it, youll see, its pretty dense stuff. I would describe it as more or less equal parts textbook if that doesnt scare you off detective story and warning flare. And as we talk about it there are two concepts i want to put in your mind. First because theyll help illuminate rest of the conversation. The first is something called agency capture or regular battery capture, which is a phenomenon that goes way back into our history. And you might think of some of the early episodes of agency capture or regulatory capture as, say, Railroad Barons running the