# Cato News Notes 

July/​August 2023 • Policy Report 

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**Influencing DC** 
For the third year in a row, Michael Cannon, Cato’s director of health policy studies, has been named among the 500 Most Influential People in Washington by the *Washingtonian*.

**CBDB Tracker** 
Nicholas Anthony, policy analyst in Cato’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, is developing a CBDC tracker with the Human Rights Foundation. Coming in November, the site will include an interactive map tracking the progress of CBDCs and how they might impact freedom around the world.

**Cato on C‑SPAN** 
Cato’s event, “Private Sponsorship: Revolution in Immigration Policy,” featuring David Bier, associate director of immigration studies, and Ilya Somin, B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies, aired on C‑SPAN. They addressed the effectiveness of refugee and asylum programs in the United States, and the coming revolution of private sponsorship as a pathway to citizenship.

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