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08 February 2019
Timothy Lee, CFIF's Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs, discusses how the Nancy Pelosi-led House of Representatives seeks to further threaten our First Amendment freedoms of speech, association and political participation and where America falls in the most recent analysis of economic freedom in terms of property rights, rule of law, taxes, government spending, regulatory burden and market openness.
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