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The Heartland Institute’s
 Seventh Emerging Issues ForumThursday, October 13, 2011
Schedule last updated October 10, 2011
7:30-8:30 am Registration and breakfast8:30-8:40 am Welcome and introduction of keynote speaker
Joseph Bast, president, and John Nothdurft, government relations directorThe Heartland Institute
8:40-9:10 am Keynote speaker: Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL)9:10-9:20 am Q&A9:20-9:35 am Brian Fojtik, Brownstone Communications
Topic: “Can Tobacco Cure Smoking?”
 9:35-10:05am
 
Panel 1 - Global Warming and Energy Fears: End Of A Delusion?
 Events in 2009 and 2010, including publication of 
Climate Change Reconsidered 
 
 by the NIPCC, “Climategate,” and a significant swing in public opinion, have shown the global warming “skeptics” were more
 right than wrong. But will global warming alarmists simply admit defeat
and go away? Probably not. What’s next? What is the future of energy
policy in America?
Moderator
:
James M. Taylor
, managing editor,
 Environment & Climate News
, columnist for Forbes.com
Speakers:
 
Craig Idso
, coauthor of 
Climate Change Reconsidered 
andchairman of the Center on Carbon Dioxide and Global Change;
RichTrzupek
, Heartland policy advisor and author of 
 Regulators Gone Wild: How the EPA is Ruining American Industry
;
Eli Lehrer
, vice president of Washington, DC operations for Heartland
10:05-10:15 am
 
Q&A
 
10:20-10:55 am
 
Panel 2 - Budgets and Taxes: Big Changes on the Horizon
The Tea Party movement and the 2010 elections moved cutting taxes,reducing spending, and managing government debt to the top of thelegislative agenda at both the federal and state levels. Who is doing thebest job at the state level? Who has the best plan for the federalgovernment? Is the federal entitlement crisis set to explode sooner thanthought? What needs to be done?
 
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Moderator:
 
John Nothdurft
, director of government relations, TheHeartland Institute
Speakers:
 
Peter Ferrara
, Heartland senior fellow and author of 
 America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb
;
Ted Dabrowski
, vice president of policy, Illinois Policy Institute; Wisconsin state
Sen. Frank Lasee
 
10:55-11:15 am Q&A11:15-11:30 am Jay Lehr, Science Director, The Heartland InstituteTopic:
“
There Will Be Oil
”
 11:35-12:30 pm Lunch12:30-1:00 pm Keynote speaker: David Boaz, executive VP, Cato InstituteTopic:
“
Bridging the Gap Between Philosophy and Public Policy
”
 1:00-1:20 pm Q&A1:20-2:05 pm
 
Panel 3 - Finally: Opportunities to Transform K-12 Education
 K-12 education in the U.S. has been under-performing and over-spendingfor decades. American students perform poorly compared to theircounterparts in other countries, despite the fact that per-pupil spending inthe U.S. is far higher. The budget crises facing many states are finallyforcing state legislators to consider reforms that promise to transform, notmerely reform, schools while actually saving taxpayers money. Comingup: More school choice, the Parent Trigger, and digital learning.
Moderator:
 
Joy Pullmann
, Heartland research fellow for educationpolicy, managing editor,
School Reform News
 
Speakers:
 
Marc Oestreich
, legislative specialist for education policy,The Heartland Institute;
Matthew Wicks
, vice president, InternationalAssociation for K-12 Online Learning
 2:05-2:20 pm Q&A2:20-3:05 pm
 
Panel 4 - Obamacare: Repeal, Replace, Reform
 The movement to repeal, replace, and/or reform Obamacare started wellbefore the legislation was signed by the president. The legislationthreatens to bankrupt states and the nation, violates the constitution, willlead to rationing by bureaucrats, and does nothing to bring health carespending under control. Thankfully, there are many things national andstate legislators can do to, from blocking funding of the law
’s
implementation, to refusing to create state insurance exchanges, toproposing better ways to reduce unnecessary spending.
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