be with you today and please join me again and thinking the american enterprise institute and arthur brooks for your great leadership. [applause] like any other admirers of of yours and your work at aei arthur i have been influenced by your writings and your sense of the term earned success. i come from a state that works. it's a state where people value hard work and so i see the principle of really earned success lived out every day across the 92 counties of indiana. as i travel across my home state i see it in a schoolteacher who helps kids after school and help them graduate and go to college. i see it in the entrepreneurial business owner who started the business in their living room and now employs 50 people. or the police officer who takes pride in keeping the peace in our streets each and every day. i see in cities large and small across the state of indiana that principle that you've articulated so well that people are happier and more motivated when they build something of their own, when they take greater ownership in their lives and they earned the success. whatever level of suc

ati president arthur brooks moderates this hour-long event. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, everybody. i am delighted to welcome you to this event entitled should anonymous campaign expenditures be allowed and invest by representative chris and holland i am delighted that representative dan holland joins us here at a ei, first elected to congress in 2002 when he defeated in his primary the man who happens to be my next door neighbor and to delightedly voted for him ever since until they get redistricted away from all of us in 2012. he is currently the top democrat on the budget committee. he has distinguished itself as a leader in legislation for more than a decade. he has served on the democratic including a stint as the chairman of the democratic congressional campaign committee most importantly for ic is smart, serious, thoughtful, and exactly the kind of policymaker we like to welcome. the issue we are here to discuss today is the intersection of free speech and the disclosure of contributions to tax-exempt organizations that

be with you today, and please join me again with thanking the american enterprise institute and arthur brooks for your great leadership. [applause] like many of other admirers of yours and of your work here, arthur, i have been influenced by your writings and your sense of the term earned success. and i come from a state that works. it is a state where people value hard work. and so i see the principle of really earned success lived out every day in the 92 counties of indiana. i see it in the schoolteacher who looks at risk kids after school doubt the graduate and go to college. i see it in the entrepreneurial business owner who started the business in their living room and now employs 50 people, or the police officer who takes pride in keeping the peace in our street, each and every day. i see in cities large and small across the state of indiana that principle that you have articulated, that people are happier and more motivated when they build something on their own, when they take greater ownership in their lives and they are the success, whatever level of success that is. and that princi

i spoke to arthur brookes.itten a couple years ago about the las ter curve and what would happen to economic activity if we went to 26%. they're telling me you you don't have to close loopholes and be revenue future tral. i'll send. it's very empirical the way they do it. and that would be -- >> i will give you my e-mail address off air. i don't have to be quite so publicly available. >> i know. that's where twitter puts all of us at this point. but i wish, and i mean, we were talking earlier, carson, about becoming territorial and bringing back some of the point that's already over there to do infrastructure. aren't these things the democrats and republicans -- >> here's the thing, on the question of the overseas income, i would like us to approach that in an internationally cooperative way. i got into the whole question of international cooperation in a very big way of necessity when we were doing financials this morning. we tried very hard to coordinate. i think largely successfully with england, with the eu