CEI Weekly: FCC Is Third Most Expensive Agency

February 22, 2013

FEATURE: FCC Is Third Most Expensive Federal Agency

This week, CEI released a new regulatory report card on the Federal Communications Commission. Fellow in regulatory studies Ryan Young reports that the FCC is the third most expensive federal agency, imposing $142 billion in regulatory costs on Americans. Read the report card here [1]. Also, see CEI's press release on the report card here [2].

SHAPING THE DEBATE

'Cancer Prevention Tips' to Avoid [3]

Angela Logomasini's op-ed in The Huffington Post

Virginia's Transportation Mess [4]

Iain Murray's op-ed in National Review Online

The Adventures of Richard Windsor--EPA Email Dump Due Today [5]

Brian McNicoll's op-ed in The Washington Examiner

National Cancer Institute Funds Tea Party Witch Hunt [6]

Bill Frezza's op-ed in The Huffington Post

EPA Scheduled to Release Richard Windsor Email Today [7]

Nicole Ciandella's op-ed in The Daily Caller

Smearing the Tea Party with Taxpayer Money [8]

Iain Murray's op-ed in National Review Online

Tough Immigration Policies Hurt Americans Too

Fred Smith's citation in The Richond Times-Dispatch

Sinful Reading [9]

CEI's citation in The Washington Times

Greek Tragedy? [10]

Matthew Melchiorre's citation in Fox News

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CEI PODCAST

February 21, 2013: The Wages of Sin Taxes [14]

CEI and the Adam Smith Institute have teamed up to publish a U.S. edition of Christopher Snowdon’s study “The Wages of Sin Taxes [15].” He argues that sin taxes are an ineffective way to treat the harmful effects of drinking, smoking, and obesity. Fellow in Consumer Policy Studies Michelle Minton [16] wrote the foreword.

BEST OF THE BLOGS

CalPERS: Model of Pension Dysfunction [17]

By Ivan Osorio

NIH-Funded Conspiracy Theory Smearing Tea Party Gets Even Wackier [18]

By Hans Bader

State of the Union Raises Hope for America [19]

By Myron Ebell

Baltic Success Reveals the Folly of Obama's Doublespeak [20]

By Matthew Melchiorre

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