Regulating Strippers, Blowout Prevention and Kagan’s Hearings
Missouri enacts “anti-stripper” legislation placing new restrictions on adult entertainment establishments.
The House of Representatives holds a hearing on the Blowout Prevention Act.
Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings continue.
1. NANNY STATE
Missouri enacts “anti-stripper” legislation placing new restrictions on adult entertainment establishments.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Policy Analyst Michelle Minton on how this legislation could encourage prostitution.
“Proponents of the bill claim that liberal laws regarding adult entertainment in the state contribute ‘demeans women and contributes to prostitution.’ But treating women as if they are children or mentally incapable of making their own choices is better? In addition, these restrictions will simply result in less income for current strippers which could very likely result in more prostitution not less.”
2. ENVIRONMENT
The House of Representatives holds a hearing on the Blowout Prevention Act.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on the cost to consumers and the economy.
“…banning offshore drilling would increase consumers’ pain at the pump, destroy tens of thousands of high-paying jobs, cripple the economy of the gulf states, and make the United States more dependent on OPEC oil.”
3. LEGAL
Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings continue.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Counsel Hans Bader on the misinformation spread during the hearings about allegedly unfair precedents in anti-discrimination law.
“The Supreme Court did not create a rigid deadline that applies regardless of whether an employee could have discovered the discrimination. Instead, it expressly left open the possibility that plaintiffs can wait to sue until after learning of discrimination, under the so-called ‘discovery rule’…After she lost her case, [plaintiff Lilly] Ledbetter claimed to Congress that she had not learned of the discrimination until the end of her career — a claim parroted by gullible politicians and journalists before it was debunked.”