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2013 National Review Institute Summit Agenda

FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2013

12:00 pm
Check in open

5:00 pm
Welcome by Elizabeth A. Fitton, National Review Institute

Jay Nordlinger interviews Congressman Tom Cotton (Arkansas)

Can Politics be Hospitable to Life?
Moderator: Jennifer Marshall, the Heritage Foundation
Charles Donovan, Charlotte Lozier Institute
Ed Mechmann, Archdiocese of New York
Carter Snead, Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame
Dorinda Bordlee, Bioethics Defense Fund

Reception, Ambassador Ballroom

Rich Lowry interviews Charles Krauthammer

Night Owl
Kathryn Lopez, National Review Online
Mona Charen, Syndicated Columnist
Kellyanne Conway, The Polling Company, Inc.
Mia Love, Mayor of Sarasota Springs, Utah

SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 2013

8:00 am
Breakfast Buffet

Welcome by Rich Lowry

Peter Thiel, Co-Founder of Paypal

Congressman Paul Ryan (Wisconsin)

Energy Discussion led by Kevin Williamson
with Harold Hamm, Continental Resources

What is Wrong with the Right?
Moderator: Reihan Salam, National Review Online
Bill Kristol, The Weekly Standard
Yuval Levin, National Affairs
John Podhoretz, Commentary Magazine
Joe Scarborough, MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’
Ross Douthat, New York Times

Lunch
Master of Ceremonies: Bob Costa, National Review
Introduction for Cruz: Jay Nordlinger, National Review
Remarks by Senator Ted Cruz (Texas)
Remarks by Governor Scott Walker (Wisconsin)

Does the Constitution Have a Future?
Moderator: Ed Whelan, Ethics and Public Policy Institute
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (Virginia)
Charles Kesler, Claremont Graduate University
Michael Mukasey, former Attorney General of the United States

Solutions from the States
Moderator: John Fund, National Review
Travis Brown, Author of How Money Walks
John Hood, John Locke Foundation
Darcy Olsen, Goldwater Institute
Tim Phillips, Americans for Prosperity

Do Demographics Doom the Right?
Moderator: Heather Higgins, Independent Women’s Voice
Michael Barone, Syndicated Columnist
Kellyanne Conway, The Polling Company, Inc.
Cleta Mitchell, Foley & Lardner, LLP
Ralph Reed, Faith and Freedom Coalition

America’s Immigration Policy
Moderator: Jim Geraghty, National Review Online
Hugh Hewitt, The Hugh Hewitt Radio Show
Mark Krikorian, Center 0for Immigration Studies

The Way Out of the Fiscal Mess
Moderator: James Pethokoukis, American Enterprise Institute
Chris DeMuth, Hudson Institute
Amity Shlaes, George W. Bush Institute

Reception, Ambassador Ballroom

Dinner
Master of Ceremonies: Larry Kudlow, CNBC’s The Kudlow Report
Bill Bennett, The Bill Bennett Radio Show
Jim DeMint, The Heritage Foundation

Night Owl
Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online
Rob Long, National Review Online
Mark Steyn, Best Selling Author

SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2013

7:30 am
Breakfast Buffet

Remarks by Governor Bob McDonnell (Virginia)

What is a Conservative Foreign Policy?
Moderator: John Hillen, National Review
Fred Kagan, American Enterprise Institute
Andy McCarthy, National Review Institute
John O’Sullivan, Editor-at-Large, National Review

Morality of Free Markets
Larry Kudlow-moderator
Arthur Brooks, American Enterprise Institute

Building a Marriage Culture
Moderator: Ryan Anderson, Heritage Foundation
Maggie Gallagher, Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund
Doug Mainwaring, National Capital Tea Party Patriots
Mark Regnerus, University of Texas at Austin
Brad Wilcox, National Marriage Project

Lunch
Master of Ceremonies: Rich Lowry
The Honorable Artur Davis (Alabama)
Governor Bobby Jindal (Louisiana)

Closing remarks
Elizabeth A. Fitton