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Republican Revolution New Book Analyzes Successes and Failures of Republican Revolution
In The Republican Revolution 10 Years Later, released by the Cato Institute, Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey, the primary architects of the 1994 takeover, and 14 policy experts assess the Republican record in major policy areas. Did the reform spirit of 1994 create a lasting change, or fall victim to the special interests of those in power?

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Policy Analysis Study Argues $400 Billion Defense Budget Unnecessary to Wage War on Terrorism
In a new Cato Policy Analysis Charles Peña, Cato's director of defense policy studies, argues that America does not reqire an enormous defense budget to combat global terrorism. Expensive new planes, warships and weapons systems won't defeat the Al Qaeda terrorist network – unprecedented and painstaking international intelligence and law-enforcement cooperation will.

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Listen to Charles Peña discuss the defense budget and the war on terrorism on Air America’s The Al Franken Show on Monday April 4 at 1:00 p.m. ET.