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Move to Defend: The Case against the Constitutional Amendments Seeking to Overturn Citizens United
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Featuring Frederick W. Smith, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, FedEx Corporation; Andrew Morriss, D. Paul Jones Jr. & Charlene A. Jones Chairholder in Law and Professor of Business, University of Alabama; and James L. Smith, Cary M. Maguire Chair in Oil and Gas Management, Southern Methodist University; moderated by Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
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In the latest issue of Regulation magazine, M. Todd Henderson reviews last year’s brouhaha over health insurance and birth control. According to Henderson, lost in the firestorm about religion and feminism were larger lessons about health care policy and regulation. Also in this issue, Cato scholar Richard L. Gordon argues that new federal efforts to cut emissions are the result of longstanding legal and judicial mandates, not a sudden Obama administration push.
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The Cato Institute tops a new measure of think tank performance in the United States, according to a recent report. Cato bested all other U.S. think tanks in the main category of “Aggregate Profile per Dollar Spent.” “I’m grateful to the Center for Global Development for showing that Cato gives its sponsors something I wish government gave more of to taxpayers: bang for the buck,” said Cato CEO John Allison.
March 31, 2009
Featuring Rep. Paul Ryan, Ranking Member, House Committee on the Budget; Chris Edwards, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
January 15, 2009
Featuring Daniel J. Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and J.D. Foster, Senior Fellow, Heritage Foundation
May 8, 2008
Featuring the author Alvin Rabushka, Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Moderated by Chris Edwards, Cato Institute.
December 6, 2007
Featuring: Rep. Paul Ryan, (R-WI); Chris Edwards, Cato Institute; and Daniel Mitchell, Cato Institute.
May 18, 2007
Featuring: Rep. Phil English (R-PA), Ranking Member, Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee, Co-Chairman, Zero AMT Caucus; Chris Edwards, Cato Institute; and moderated by Daniel Mitchell, Cato Institute.
February 14, 2007
Featuring Rep. John Campbell (R-CA); Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Stephen Slivinski, Director of Budget Studies, Cato Institute; and Dan Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
November 14, 2006
Featuring Ivan Miklos, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Slovakia; with comments by Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and moderated by Marian Tupy, Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
February 13, 2006
Featuring Donald Marron, Acting Director, Congressional Budget Office; Chris Edwards, Director, Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Stephen Slivinski, Director, Budget Studies, Cato Institute.
November 15, 2005
Featuring Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy, Cato Institute, and author, Downsizing the Federal Government; Rep. Jeb Hensarling, (R-TX); Donald Lambro, Chief Political Correspondent, Washington Times; and Stuart Butler, Vice President, Domestic and Economic Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation.
November 9, 2005
Featuring: Sen. Jim DeMint, (R-SC); Chris Edwards, Cato Institute; Daniel Mitchell, Heritage Foundation; Stephen Entin Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation
September 23, 2005
Featuring Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy, Cato Institute, and Author, Downsizing the Federal Government; Tom Schatz, President, Citizens Against Government Waste; Steve Ellis, Vice President, Taxpayers for Common Sense
March 22, 2005
Featuring Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy, Cato Institute; John Samples, Director of the Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute; and Linda Killian, Professor of Journalism, Boston University, Author, The Freshmen: What Happened to the Republican Revolution?