Chuck DeVore is a visiting senior scholar for fiscal policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and a regular contributor to Andrew Breitbart's Big Government. From 2004 to 2010, he served as a Republican representative in the California state assembly, where he was vice-chairman of the committee on revenue and taxation. Chuck is also a lieutenant colonel (retired) of military intelligence in the US Army Reserve, and served special assistant for foreign affairs in the Pentagon during the Reagan administration