The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. SUPREME COURT

The nation’s highest court hears a constitutional challenge to the Clean Water Act.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on the federal government’s questionable legal justification for its water quality regulations.

2. PROPERTY RIGHTS

State legislatures nationwide move to limit the right of governments to seize private property.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on why property seized via eminent domain amounts to corporate welfare.

3. BUSINESS

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce releases a major new report on corporate governance and the failure of post-Enron reforms.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on the problems with the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate accounting law.

4. TOBACCO

The Washington Post editorializes in favor of higher cigarette taxes.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Communications Christine Hall on the government tobacco cartel.

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