In income, influence and output, the past few years have been bountiful for the Heritage Foundation, the Washington-based policy center that Newt Gingrich once called "the most far-reaching conservative organization in the country in the war of ideas." Others regard it as a raucous right-wing drumbeater in the guise of a scholarly institution, with the fiscal benefits of tax-exempt, non-profit status. There's no disputing, however, that the Heritage Foundation was the foremost think tank for the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994. As the ideological tides recede, the extent and durability of its influence are uncertain, but at the moment, it is a very robust organization.
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