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  • February 2, 2017
    Capitol Hill Briefing
    Everything You Wanted to Know about Border Adjustability but Were Afraid to Ask
    Featuring Daniel J. Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Brian Garst, Director of Policy and Communications, Center for Freedom and Prosperity; Veronique de Rugy, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center; Stan Veuger, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; moderated by Peter Russo, Director of Congressional Affairs, Cato Institute.
  • November 30, 2016
    Capitol Hill Briefing
    Cutting Wasteful Spending in the Trump Administration
    Featuring James Lankford (R-OK), United States Senator; Thomas A. Schatz, President, Citizens against Government Waste; Chris Edwards, Editor of DownsizingGovernment.org, Cato Institute; and Justin Bogie, Senior Policy Analyst in Fiscal Affairs, Heritage Foundation; moderated by Peter Russo, Director of Congressional Affairs, Cato Institute.
  • September 26, 2016
    Policy Forum
    Economic and Financial Issues Facing the Next President
    Featuring Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President, American Action Forum; Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy and Editor of DownsizingGovernment.org, Cato Institute; and Stephan Danninger, Division Chief, Western Hemisphere Department, International Monetary Fund; moderated by Mark A. Calabria, Director of Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute.
  • August 15, 2016
    Capitol Hill Briefing
    Freedom in the 50 States
    Featuring William P. Ruger, Vice President of Policy and Research, Charles Koch Institute; Jason Sorens, Lecturer, Department of Government, Dartmouth College; moderated by Peter Russo, Director of Congressional Affairs, Cato Institute.
  • June 29, 2016
    Capitol Hill Briefing
    Reforming the U.S. Postal Service
    Featuring James Gattuso, Senior Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation; Kevin Kosar, Senior Fellow, R Street Institute; and Chris Edwards, Editor, DownsizingGovernment.org, Cato Institute; moderated by Peter Russo, Director of Congressional Affairs, Cato Institute.
  • May 13, 2016
    Policy Forum
    GO Beyond GDP: What Really Drives the Economy?
    Featuring Mark Skousen, Author, The Structure of Production; Steve Forbes, Author, Reviving America; and George Gilder, Author, The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does; moderated by Peter Goettler, President, Cato Institute.
  • July 17, 2015
    Capitol Hill Briefing
    The BEPS Project: The OECD, Tax Policy, and U.S Competitiveness
    Featuring David R. Burton, Senior Fellow in Economic Policy, Heritage Foundation; Brian Garst, Director, Policy and Communications, Center for Freedom and Prosperity; and Gavin Ekins, Research Economist, Tax Foundation; moderated by Daniel J. Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
  • May 27, 2015
    Capitol Hill Briefing
    Proven Strategies to Restrain Spending: An International Perspective
    Featuring Daniel Freihofer, Minister-Counselor, Head of Economic and Financial Affairs, Swiss Embassy; Clement Leung, Hong Kong’s Commissioner to the United States; and Jonathan Williams, Vice President, Center for State Fiscal Reform, ALEC; moderated by Daniel J. Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
  • April 10, 2015
    Capitol Hill Briefing
    Defining the Tax Base: The Real Challenge for Tax Reform
    Featuring Dan Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; David Burton, Senior Fellow in Economic Policy, Heritage Foundation; and Jason Fichtner, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center; moderated by Peter Russo, Director, Congressional Affairs, Cato Institute.
  • March 16, 2015
    Policy Forum
    The Pentagon Budget: Prospects for Reform
    Featuring Dov S. Zakheim, Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Mackenzie Eaglen, Resident Fellow at the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies, American Enterprise Institute; Todd Harrison, Senior Fellow, Defense Budget Studies, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments; and Christopher A. Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by Kate Brannen, Senior Reporter, Foreign Policy.
  • July 31, 2014
    Capitol Hill Briefing
    Federal Budget Outlook: It’s Worse Than You Think
    Featuring Sen. Ron Johnson, (R-WI) and Member, Senate Budget Committee; and Chris Edwards, Editor, DownsizingGovernment.Org, Cato Institute; moderated by Daniel J. Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
  • October 1, 2013
    Conference
    A SAFE Way Out of State and Local Pension Woes?
    Featuring Preston Rutledge, Tax and Benefits Counsel, Senate Committee on Finance; Robert Clark, Zelnak Professor of Economics, Poole Management School, NC State University; Eileen Norcross, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center; Richard Dreyfuss, Senior Fellow, Commonwealth Foundation and the Manhattan Institute; moderated by Jagadeesh Gokhale, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
  • September 27, 2013
    Book Forum
    Liberalism and Cronyism: Two Rival Political and Economic Systems
    Featuring the authors Randall G. Holcombe, DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics, Florida State University; and Andrea M. Castillo, Program Associate, Mercatus Center; with comments by Timothy P. Carney Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute and Senior Political Columnist, Washington Examiner; moderated by Dalibor Rohac; Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
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