. >> good evening, my name is alan nelson. i'm the president of the neighborhood association. i was here in july and spoke to you. i actually wrote the conditions of use for trigger. i worked with greg braunstein and i worked with his representative to come up with agreeable conditions of use that would be good for the neighborhood. greg agreed to them. he loved them. he was reaching out to the community. it was fabulous. unfortunately, right after he opened, everything that we talked about in the conditions of use he started violating. lots of the conditions he was not adhering to. we had numerous complaints. i called greg, i talked to greg. i talked to bev and dufty, i talked to beau hayward. it got so bad that we were engaging enforcement. enforcement was doing sound checks repeatedly. i think at least nine times the sound checks were done, and he was in violation of his conditions of use. the noise was so lloyd and so pervasive across the street -- loud and so pervasive across the street. it was closer to a bar across the street, you could actually hear trigger, and you co

alan greenspan talks about overhauling the u.s. tax code and eliminating loopholes. he testified with other economists and a former michigan gov. john engler, who is the president of the business roundtable. bill nelsonommittee. the hearing is two hours. >> if this congress does not get serious, then the structural budget imbalances facing this economy could permanently reduce the labor productivity and economic growth for years to come. a launching point for getting our fiscal house in order should haul of the federal income tax code. if that means lowering tax rates, eliminating tax expenditures, and other loopholes, and simplifying the tax code, then so be it. we hear a lot about entitlement programs, so security and medicare in particular. -- social security and medicare in particular. we do not hear about that 250 entitlement programs put into the tax code. the various tax credits, deductions, and exclusions grafted on to the tax code are entitlement programs, pure and simple. and if you are eligible, you can claim the benefit. and it is in the expenditure. and there is no application process in order to get this benefit. and there is no annual or even periodic review of those expenditures' effi