The last highway bill expired more than two years ago. As Congress debates various reauthorization funding proposals, the longstanding user-pays/user-benefits principle should be preserved. One proposal gaining momentum in Congress, directing royalty revenues from expanded onshore and offshore oil and gas production into the Highway Trust Fund, is fundamentally at odds with the user-pays principle.

TechFreedom, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Cato Institute will host a lunch discussion featuring a panel of leading technology policy experts who will discuss the implications of proposed rogue website legislation for entrepreneurship, free speech, Internet governance, and holders of copyrights and trademarks.

Wayne Crews, CEI's Vice President for Policy, will be participating in the RISE Responsible Research and Innovation in Biometrics conference in Brussels on December 1st and 2nd. He will speak on the Biometrics Beyond Security Technology Panel.