they told us -- >> said, we're not laughers. don't let it get you down. we plowed ahead.hey said thanks. that's it. i remember we were sick about it. they didn't hire us. about a month later, we get a phone call out of the blue. by the way, they shot one of the things you pitched. what? yeah, the virgin episode. >> virgin. >> hello. >> so you didn't actually get to write it -- >> no, we got our name on it. we were happy to have our name associated with "seinfeld." >> reporter: and it's just as well because they probably wouldn't have had time to make movies. >> you're saying it hopefully like -- >> reporter: and "dumb and dumber" came out while "seinfeld" was still on the air. >> yeah, came out in '94. >> reporter: there are a lot of people who think you push it too far. >> it's usually people who haven't seen our movie. i'll go back to "the ringer." the special olympics infiltration so he can bet on the outcome. >> my name is drunk and i have a slice of your duty. people are like, you can't make fun of that. eunice shriver who created the special olympics loved what we d

to have suspicions, not proof, we would have conference calls, and martin, he would double up with laugher because we had a conference call at midnight, and when i had suspicions, i would say hold on now, fbi, do you have your equipment ready? okay, i want to be sure you get everything down, okay, because this is going to be a long conference. get yourself comfortable. martin would say, stop the thee theatrics, clarence. let's move on. i believe that stanley leverson, this jewish lawyer in any other context when you look back at the magnitude of his contributions to martin king and the civil rights movement, he would be begin the nation's the civilian medal of honor without questions. >> host: he died in 1979. >> guest: yes. so i think that, i think that the movement, the civil rights -- personally, i think that the history of the civil rights movement in relationship to martin king, i think that stanley has not gten his proper -- gotten his proper due. >> host: yes. >> guest: i think there's been little effort to rebalance or revisit history and not bring the contribution he made to the f

a piece in "the wall street journal" by one of the economists who advised ronald reagan, a arthur laugher, which i think recounts and discusses probably as good as any other summary that i've ever seen the contribution that reagan and his administration made to the economy of the united states. and, therefore, i would like to insert in the record -- not in the middle of this debate but at the conclusion of this debate -- the article from "the wall street journal" dated february 10, 2011. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kyl: thank you, mr. president. mr. nelson: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from nebraska. mr. nelson: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to add senator bill nelson from florida to amendment number 58, as an original cosponsor. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. nelson: thank you. and i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call:

and i think, in terms of the laugher factor, if you want to call it that, reducing the corporate rate, i believe, is as one of our colleagues said the other day, a study has come out if you reduce that rate, you get more economic growth than you would in almost any other place in the economy. thank you for your leadership. thank you for this good hearing. i look forward to the testimony of our excellent panel. >> thank you very much, senator sessions. now we'll turn to our panel. wel start with gene sturly. welcome back and please proceed. >> thank you, mr. chairman, mr. sessions and members of the committee. many tax and budget reforms know no party boundars. no one favors the unequal justice, inefficiency and complexity we see in our tax code today, neither does anyone favor the way tomorrow' scheduled deficits threaten our economy and our children. you have asked that i concentrate my remarks on what makes reform most likely. reform often starts from a common consensus that a variety of fixes would be better than what we have. bipartisan agreement led to past successful fax reform

what the laugher curve shows us is as we drop taxes we actually get more revenue into the federal government. so to a degree we can use growth of the revenue to deal with some of the problem. but the trouble is, it's not anywhere near going to deal with all of it which means we have to cut, no matter what you do, you're going to have to cut spending and particularly that entitlement spending. so we have to do that sensitively and carefully. it's going to be politically controversial but we've got to do something. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. akin: i thank you, mr. speaker, you've done an admirable job and thank you very much, scott tipton from colorado. a great new congressman. and the very top of the evening to the rest of my colleagues. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 5, 2011, the gentleman from minnesota, mr. ellison, is recognized for 18 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. ellison: thank you, mr. speaker, for recognizing me. i'm coming down to the floor tonight to speak on behalf of the progressive

and i think, terms of the laugher factor, if you want to call it that, redung the corporate rate, i believe, is as one of our colleagues said the other day, a study has come out if you reduce that rate, you get more economic growth than you would in almost any oth place in the economy. thank you for your leadership. thank you for this good hearing. i look forward to the testimony of our excellent panel. >> thank you very much, senator sessions. now we'll turn to our panel. we'll start with gene sturly. welcome back and please proceed. >> thank you, mr. chairman, mr. sessions and members of the committee. many tax and budget reforms know no party boundaries. no one favors the unequal justice, inefficiency and complexity we see in our tax code today, neither does anyone favor the way tomorrow's scheduled deficits threaten our economy and our children. you have asked that i concentrate my remarks on what makes reform most likely. reform often starts from a common consensus that a variety of fixes would be better than what we have. bipartisan agreement led to past successful fax reform such as

and i think in terms of the laugher factor, if you want to call it that -- laffer, factor, if you want to call it that. reducing the corporate rate, one of our colleagues said the other day, a study came out and shown that if you reduce that rate you get more economic growth than you would in almost any other place in the economy. thank you for your leadership. thank you for this good hearing. i look forward to the testimony of our compel pent -- excellent panel. >> thank you very much, senator sessions. we'll turn to the panel. we'll start with gene stehrle. welcome back to the panel and proceed. >> thank you, mr. chairman and members of the committee. many tax and budget reforms know no ideological or party boundaries. no one favors unequal justice inefficiency and complexity we see in our tax code today. neither does anyone favor the way tomorrow's scheduled deficits threaten our economy and our children. you have asked that i concentrate my remarks on what makes reform most likely. reform often starts from a common consensus that a variety of fixes would be better than what we have