The Shutdown & the 10th Amendment: A Conversation with Chuck DeVore and Karen Lugo

October 27, 2013

Vice President of Policy Chuck DeVore sits down with Director of the Center for 10th Amendment Action Karen Lugo to talk about the federal shutdown: what happened, why Texas isn't running into this problem, and what we can learn from the federal government's problems.

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