The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. HEALTH

The EPA tells people not to throw out their Teflon cookware

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Gregory Conko on the Teflon health scare.

2. BUDGET

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke advises Congress to start addressing entitlement reform.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: President Fred L. Smith, Jr. on the need to address spiraling Medicare costs.

3. BUSINESS

The Securities and Exchange Commission holds a meeting to review the performance of the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate accounting rules.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on CEI’s lawsuit challenging Sarbanes-Oxley. 

4. INTERNATIONAL

The Kyoto Protocol on global warming reaches its one-year anniversary.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Analyst Steven Milloy on the high costs and poor performance of the Kyoto Protocol.

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