Government and corporations often don't take Mac users into consideration when posting video. The Minnesota House of Representatives is one such organization that uses Windows Media. Here's how to watch and download their video.
Go to the page that lists the videos.
Do a control click or a right-click on the "non-frames version" link.
Choose "Download linked file" from the contextual menu that pops up.
Find the downloaded file on your hard drive. It will probably end with a .asf extension. Do a control-click or right click on the file and choose "open with" --you'll see a list of applications. Choose "other" and then find your TextEdit application. The other way to do this is to open TextEdit and then use it to open the downloaded file.
The file will contain two groups of lines. You want the SECOND group. The first line will have a url that begins with "mms:", you DON'T want that one. The next line will have a url that begins with "http". Copy that url (without the quote marks) and then go back to your browser (Safari is best for this) and paste in the url and hit return or enter. It may take a minute or two, but the video will load and play in Safari.