January 24, 2012 8:00PM 

# Live Blog of the 2012 State of the Union Address and the GOP Response 

By Cato Editors 

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Please join us at **9:00pm Eastern on Tuesday, January 24,** for live commentary during President Obama’s third State of the Union address and the GOP response given by Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels. Here is our panel of policy experts:

- Legal Associate [Trevor Burrus](https://www.cato.org/people/trevor-burrus)
- Senior Fellow [Ilya Shapiro](https://www.cato.org/people/ilya-shapiro)
- Senior Fellow [Pat Michaels](https://www.cato.org/people/patrick-michaels)
- Budget Analyst [Tad DeHaven](https://www.cato.org/people/tad-dehaven)
- Foreign Policy Analyst [Malou Innocent](https://www.cato.org/people/malou-innocent)
- Director of Health Policy Studies [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/author/michael-cannon/)
- Senior Fellow [Daniel J. Mitchell](https://www.cato.org/author/dmitchell/)
- Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom [Neal McCluskey](https://www.cato.org/people/neal-mccluskey)

Other Cato scholars will also contribute.

Come back to this page at **9:00pm Eastern on Tuesday, January 24,** to join us — we look forward to having you, and to sharing our insights with you.

You can also follow the conversation on Twitter by following [@CatoInstitute](https://twitter.com/#!/CatoInstitute), the hashtag **\#SOTU**, and these Cato experts:

- Director of Financial Regulation Studies [Mark Calabria](https://www.cato.org/people/mark-calabria) ([@MarkCalabria](https://twitter.com/#!/markcalabria))
- Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies [Christopher Preble](https://www.cato.org/people/christopher-preble) ([@CAPreble](https://twitter.com/#!/capreble))

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