the hearing was convened by sam johnson. he is chairman of the social security house ways and means committee. he's pushing the bill that would stop the social security add min strags from making this public. if you want to get up to date, go do abc2news.com. you'll find our story on the home page. joce sterman, abc2 news. >> could tractor-trailer rigs as long as a 737 be driving on a highway near you. it's being proposed. the american energy and infrastructure jobs act would mean $260 billion over five years to fund highway programs. it's a controversial provision allowing heavier tractor-trailers by increasing the federal weight limit from 87,000 to 97,000 and could be 10 feet long are, a total length of more than 100 feet. >>> a california woman took automaker honda to court over the gas mileage claims a los angeles judge ruled in her favor. here's what heather peters had to say about her big win. >> it's justice in a very small place but it proves that sometimes the little guy wins. >> now the judge ruled that honda misl

. >> sam johnson serving live for first-degree murder. >> be before we used to dread. now whether we come in, they make us feel like hoven. >> there's a weekend wart rites to my know. so, did isaiah thompson. both prisoners injured in the prison yard, but even though there's a surgeon on staff, their surgeries were done at outside hospitals. >> we do what we can here and things we can't do, we will refer out. >> they are referring out a lot. >> it's like a little outpatient clinic. >> i have a blister on my toe. >> as a diabetic, he could be treated inside. so why does he go out for a blister? >> they do have a pediatrist here. i don't know. >> a pediatrist, a surgeon, in fact, there are 14 physicians and 100 nurses on staff here at san quinton. many earning six figure salaries for inmate treatment. much of which is happening elsewhere. >> why can't we have medical personnel make a legitimate assessment assessment right there in the prison? >> alexander's vice president of the union. here's from the guards every day. >> routine complaints about a lancing of a boil, a c

the pilot was sam johnson united states air force. he was a colonel and he was doing his second tour of duty in vietnam. he was flying with a fighter squadron called satan's angels. he was a career pilot who had already flown 62 combat missions during the korean war, flying an f-86 saber jet. colonel johnson also flew with the famed air force thunderbirds. but on that day, april 16 1966, colonel johnson and his f-4 was shot down by ground fire by the north vietnamese. he was captured. he was put in a prisoner of war camp and, madam speaker, he was in that p.o.w. camp for seven years. because of the way that he would not give into the torture and to the interrogation, the enemy moved him to the famous hanoi hilton a place they called alcatraz. it was as bad a p.o.w. camp that ever existed in history. alcatraz was where 11 p.o.w.'s were put because they were the most on city nant men and they were leaders of other p.o.w.'s. they were hard-nosed and they had to be segregated. they called themselves the alcatraz gang. they were defiant an

sam johnson was arrested yesterday. police report he and another driver were involved in a dispute between cars. they believed johnson pulled a rifle from his back seat and pointed it at the other driver. >> luckily the victim was smart enough he pulled out his cell phone and called 911 and gave a great description of the vehicle and the tag number. >> johnson is charged with first and second degree assault and is out on bond. >>> now a maryland woman narrowly escaped tragedy on her way home from work last night. she was driving through d.c. when someone threw a heavy object at her most likely from an overpass. as fox 5's beth parker shows us, she wants you to know about it hoping to keep others out of harm's way. >> it was a big thump. it happened in a matter of seconds. >> reporter: doline hatchett was doing what she does every night driving home from work, but wednesday was different. something, she doesn't know what, came crashing down onto the windshield of her minivan. here's the result. the windshield of her hond

. >> reporter: sam johnson serving life for first-degree murder. >> before we used to dread going to medical. now when we come in they make us feel like humans just like on the outside. >> reporter: he is recovering from a weekend warrior injury to his knee. >> i had arthroscopic surgery about three weeks ago. >> reporter: so did isaiah torch some. >> i tore it up playing football. >> reporter: both injured in the priso yard. even though there is a surgeon on staff the surgeries were done on at outside hospitals. >> what we can't do we refer out. >> reporter: they're referring out a lot. >> i actually went to kentfield in marin, which it's like a little outpatient clinic. >> reporter: david's medical emergency? >> i have a blister on my toe. >> reporter: as a diabetic he could easily be treated inside. so why does he go out for a blister? >> they have a podiatrist here, i don't know -- i can't tell you exactly. >> reporter: a podiatrist, a surgeon surgeon, 14 physicians and 100 nurses, many earning six-figure salaries for inmate treatment, much of what's happening elsewhere. >> why c

i mean, i've spoken to wright patton and he says "when sam johnson was in the legislature he used tocome up to people, put his arm around you and grab your lapel." so lyndon really felt close to him. and as doris knows-- because she's written about it-- he said "the happiest days of my boyhood was when i would go with my father on the campaign trail." he said "christ, i wish those days would never end." and then his father when he's 13 fails. fails miserably. loses the family ranch. lyndon johnson says we went from the "a" to the "fs." and they became a figure really of ridicule where the merchants wouldn't give the johnson family credit. so lyndon when he went to junior high school would go into the drugstore and the other kids could buy candy and he couldn't buy candy. that marked him for his entire life, i feel. >> rose: wanted to do something about the poor? >> well i hasn't thought... yes, exactly. but his brother once said to me... i'll never forget it. his brother was quite a character and a lot of what he said we can't believe. >> rose: like jimmy carter, like bill clinton. (

i'm pleased to say a member of this body, sam johnson. in alcatraz these men spent literally years in solitary confinement. a three-by-nine-foot box with a single light bulb that was kept on all the time. they were tortured on a regular basis if they were caught communicating. lieutenant commander schumaker was actually known amongst his peers as the great communicator. they devised a tap code earlier. the tap code which would become now famous for those going through p.o.w. training. survival training. it was a five-by-five box. a, b, c, d, e. they cut out k so they could have an even five-by-five box. they would communicate unbelievable volumes of knowledge. lieutenant -- commander schumaker actually taught french through the walls to sam johnson. in that solitary confinement again, if they were caught communicating they were tortured so there was a reluctance to communicate but that's how they kept themselves alive. that's how they exercise the one most important muscle out there and that was their brain. just a couple days ago, mr. sp

lesson learned from vietnam would have been not that that was not a winnable war as our colleague, sam johnson, could tell you after carpet bombing after north vietnam left the negotiation table, after two weeks of carpet bombing and the hanoi hilton prisoners were taken away, sam said, the meanest -- one of the officers at the hanoi hilton said, you stupid americans, if you would have bombed us for one more week we would have surrendered unconditionally. that could have been done early in the 1960's. the lesson of vietnam should have been we don't send our military men and women anywhere in the world on our behalf unless we give them the equipment to do the job, unless we give them the order to go in, whatever it costs, win and come home. that should have been the lesson. but it wasn't learned in vietnam. and it apparently wasn't learned during the failed rescue attempt under the carter administration. but these were american heroes who put their lives at risk for an administration that didn't fully appreciate what was involved. general boykin, in february of 2003, received -- he had two star

congressman sam johnson served in the united states air force for 29 years. during service he flue 62 -- flew 62 combat missions in the korean war and 25 missions in vietnam. while flying his 25th mission, he was shot down and captured in north vietnam. on february 12, 1973, after seven years of imprisonment, congressman johnson was returned to the united states and reunited with his wife and daughters. this week we honor congressman johnson and celebrate the 39th anniversary of his homecoming. through the years of agony he persevered and left vietnam with the resolution to support every man and every woman fighting for the united states of america. mr. speaker, we are all called to office for different reasons. for members of my class 10 years ago it was a tragic event of september 11. for congressman johnson it was his imprisonment that empowdered him. it is an honor to celebrate a man who has given not only part of his life to protect our freedoms but a man who continues to represent the american people with dignity and respect. thank you, congressman john

compare them to lyndon johnson and speaker sam rayburn in the '50s. before my time, but i hear it was awfully nice. giants-like speaker tip o'neill, even the loyal opposition of gerald ford and everette dirkson in the '60s and '70s. john alter is with us today. there's a human tendency to look to the past. they call it euphoric recall. we look to the past. it was better then. was it better then? >> well, i'm not sure. i just came from speaking with one of lbj's top aids. in some ways, it was worse. you had rank racist. they were throughout the house and senate. i could tell you stories that would curl your hair about some of the things. and theodore billbow, senator from mississippi. >> what about at the top? in other words, if you look at the edge of leadership. >> we need to be careful about these blanket comparisons to the past. but i think when you look at the big picture, and we have some very good people who serve, but they are serving in a system that is paralyzed and dysfunctional. >> and you do that for what? we know it's not just money. >> i

so when you kind of add it all together, johnson was one of the few cases in history where a vice presidential candidate actually made a difference. sam raburn after the election said that it was the most important vice presidential candidacy since teddy roosevelt's back in 1900. johnson did have an unusual role to play as it turned out. so the election turns out to be, you know, much closer perhaps than the kennedy people expected. but, you know, nixon had problems at the state level and, for example, illinois where you had a weak incumbent governor, william straten, who was insisting upon running for a third term although his prospects were poor. he really didn't control the republican party. and mary daley who was about to become famous as a result of the 1960 election. mayor daly arranged for a brilliantly balanced democratic ticket with kennedy at the top to draw out those suburban catholics. but then running for governor, a lutheran, otto kerner, against the very unpopular stratton. and then the popular senator paul douglas picking up the university of chicago vote or the intellectual vote and also douglas had cultivated farmers

he was very close to speaker sam raburn and also to majority leader of the senate, lyndon b. johnson who, of course, later was vice president and then president of the united states. in working with lyndon johnson, jack brooks voter important controversial new laws, especially the civil rights act of 1964. before this law in 1964, there was widespread discrimination and segregation against black people in the united states, especially in the southern united states. black people were barred from going in restaurants and cafes and motels and movie theaters. they could work in those places. but they were not welcome there as customers or clients. so there was widespread discrimination. and many people thought that should be changed. and during the year of 1963, president kennedy proposed a new civil rights law. and he was doing this in part based on rising tensions in the south, especially in birmingham, alabama. and president kennedy, in his administration introduced a sweepi ining civil rights bill. it sort of stalled out and wasn't being passed. there was opposition from the south an

johnson jr. he is 18 years old. sam ike highway february 8, 7:20 in the morning. red honda car, victim car. red honda car, victim car. something bad happens. words are exchanged. the guy in the red honda reaches back they say and puts a rifle out like this. the guy in the victim car reaches back, pulls out a cell phone, 911. that red honda car takes off. but not before the victim does a little police work of his own. >> he provided us with a license plate number and from that we were able to follow up and find out who owned the car and from that point he was driving the car. >> reporter: it took a few days but police tracked down kenneth johnson to his apartment here in gaithersburg and arifted him. then they searched his car, his red honda car. know what they found inside? a rifle. kenneth johnson jr. charged with first and second-degree assault. road rage suspect kenneth johnson out on bond but they kept the rifle. live in montgomery county, i'm pat collins, news 4. >>> we go to weather now. some rain out there but doug is talking about some snow this weekend. am i hearing that correctly,

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