February 25, 2009 7:02PM # Cato Scholars Address Obama’s First Speech to Congress By Cato Editors --- SHARE President Barack Obama’s first address to Congress laid out a laundry list of new spending contained within the stimulus legislation and provided hints as to what will be contained in the budget — a so-called “blueprint for America’s future” — he’ll submit to the legislature. Cato Institute scholars [Chris Edwards](https://www.cato.org/people/chris-edwards), [Jim Harper](https://www.cato.org/people/jim-harper), [Gene Healy](https://www.cato.org/people/gene-healy), [Neal McCluskey](https://www.cato.org/people/neal-mccluskey), [David Rittgers](https://www.cato.org/people/david-rittgers), [John Samples](https://www.cato.org/people/john-samples) and [Michael D. Tanner](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-tanner) offer their analyses of the President’s non-State-of-the-Union Address. Subscribe to Cato’s [video podcast here](http://feeds.cato.org/CatoWeeklyVideo) and Cato’s YouTube channel [here](http://www.youtube.com/catoinstitutevideo). ##### Related Tags [Education](https://www.cato.org/education), [Defense and Foreign Policy](https://www.cato.org/defense-foreign-policy), [Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics), [Health Care](https://www.cato.org/health-care), [Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Tax and Budget Policy](https://www.cato.org/tax-budget-policy), [Technology and Privacy](https://www.cato.org/technology-privacy), [Center for Educational Freedom](https://www.cato.org/center-educational-freedom), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).