CEI Weekly: FCC Is Third Most Expensive Agency

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. Also, see CEI’s press release on the report card here.

 

 

SHAPING THE DEBATE

 

‘Cancer Prevention Tips’ to Avoid

Angela Logomasini‘s op-ed in The Huffington Post

 

Virginia’s Transportation Mess

Iain Murray‘s op-ed in National Review Online

 

The Adventures of Richard Windsor–EPA Email Dump Due Today

Brian McNicoll‘s op-ed in The Washington Examiner

 

National Cancer Institute Funds Tea Party Witch Hunt

Bill Frezza‘s op-ed in The Huffington Post

 

EPA Scheduled to Release Richard Windsor Email Today

Nicole Ciandella‘s op-ed in The Daily Caller

 

Smearing the Tea Party with Taxpayer Money

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

CEI’s citation in The Washington Times

 

Greek Tragedy?

Matthew Melchiorre’s citation in Fox News

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                     

                                        
         

CEI PODCAST

 

February 21, 2013: The Wages of Sin Taxes

 

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.” 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 wrote the foreword.

 

BEST OF THE BLOGS

 

CalPERS: Model of Pension Dysfunction

By Ivan Osorio

 

NIH-Funded Conspiracy Theory Smearing Tea Party Gets Even Wackier

By Hans Bader

 

State of the Union Raises Hope for America

By Myron Ebell

 

Baltic Success Reveals the Folly of Obama’s Doublespeak

By Matthew Melchiorre

 

 

 

 

 

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