The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News
1. TELECOM
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce prepares for a substantial revision to the rules regulating telecommunications services.
CEI Expert Available for Comment: Technology Counsel Braden Cox on the Committee’s previous draft of its telecom reform effort.
2. SUPREME COURT
Senate Democrats size up Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito Jr.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on why Alito’s nomination is good news.
3. HURRICANE KATRINA
Investigators discover evidence that corruption in the contracts for building levees around New Orleans may have caused them to be weakened by structural flaws.
CEI Expert Available for Comment: President Fred L. Smith, Jr. on why rebuilding New Orleans will require a change in the political culture of Louisiana.