welcome greg zeller. >> thank you, david, and thank you to the cato institute for hosting this.i'm glad the lead in kind of took away some of the things that i was going to point out. and hopefully we'll condense this and try to take some questions. i'm almost sorry that you mentioned my ten years in the federal government with senator and vice president quayle. in indiana, i deny it and i have learned the federal government is not a well loved institution and congress even worst, so it was a clintonesque deny, deny, deny. i guess that was my brother skippy that was actually in the white house and not your attorney general. but i think i have resolved my checkered past by suing the federal government several times. that's very popular in the state of indiana. let me explain when i come to washington, i have to explain a little bit about states. what you have read ins books is not exactly true. first of all, it's true that al states are not alike, since we're sovereign, we have our ability to create our own sovereign government in the way we choose. indiana is one of six states w

in just a moment we'll be hearing from indiana attorney general greg zeller, at lunch, scott pruitt whoas the first to challenge the irs in court. in between, we will have one panel of scholars debating the legal merits of these cases and another debating the impact this issue is having and could have on health care reform. we're proud to hold this conference today and proud of the role the cato institute has played in this and other areas to make presidents of both parties respect the rule of law. now it's my honor to introduce our opening keynote speaker for the event. on october 8, 2013, greg zeller became the fourth person and the second attorney general to file a legal challenge to that irs regulation in indiana v. irs. he was joined as a plaintiff by 39 indiana school systems. those public school systems complained that they have had to eliminate jobs and reduce the hours of noncertified support staff including bus drivers, food service staff and instructional assistants to fewer than 30 hours a week because the irs is unlawfully subjecting them to the employer mandate even though

greg zeller has been indiana's 42nd attorney general since 2008 and prior to the state government committeespent ten years as an assistant to the senator and vice president and first in the senate office than in the office of the vice president. now in addition to being the attorney general he also teaches constitutional law. >> thank you for hosting this. the lead-in took away some of what i was going to point out. let me incorporate things as part of my own lead-in. i am almost sorry that you mentioned by ten years in the federal government with the senator and vice president dan quayle. the federal government is not a well loved institution and the congress even worse. so i don't know. i guess it was kind of a dean i. it wasn't your attorney general. but i think i have resolved my checkered past by suing the federal government a number of times and that is very popular in the state of indiana.