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FCC’s Cable Box Mandate: Costly, Illegal, and Unnecessary
Regulators at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) want to dictate how cable and satellite television providers design their so-called “set-top boxes”—a fancy term for…
National Review
The CFPB Moves to Ban Arbitration Clauses — Better Lawyer Up
Add another 377 pages to the ever-burgeoning length of the Dodd-Frank Act. Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Racket Bureau announced that it would use its…
The Hill
Presidential candidates should talk about regulation
From “lyin’” to “low-energy,” the current election’s lowering of the rhetorical bar to levels that challenge even the most nimble limbo dancer is more than…
Daily Signal
Liberal Activists Worked With AGs to Target Conservatives
The Daily Signal reports on the subpoena CEI recieved as part of the attorneys general intimidation campaign to silence the debate on climate change. …
The Fiscal Times
Trump’s Hard Truth for the GOP: Conservatism Doesn’t Matter
The Fiscal Times mentions Wayne Crews's annual report on the size and costs of federal regulations. An explosion of regulatory activity at the…
Western Journalism
The Crushing Cost Of Complying With Government
Mike Huckabee mentions Wayne Crews's annual report on the size and cost of federal regulations for Western Journalism. One of the arguments I’ve…
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The Barack Obama Regulatory State Towers over that of Bush
A glance at the overall count of rules and regulations leads one to suppose regulatory burdens are decreasing. After all, since Obama took office the…
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Ten Thousand Commandments 2018 – Executive Summary
Download the Executive Summary as a PDF Spending and deficit restraint are vital to the nation’s economic health. But the cost…
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Ten Thousand Commandments 2016
Ten Thousand Commandments is the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual survey of the size, scope and cost of federal regulations, and how they affect American consumers, businesses,…
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9,999 Commandments? Six Ways Rule Flows Were Reduced or Streamlined in 2017
Download Chapter 1 as a PDF Rather than jump directly into the numbers of rules and regulations, this year’s Ten Thousand…
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Toward a Federal Regulatory Budget
Download Chapter 2 as a PDF When Congress spends money, a certain degree of disclosure helps voters hold their representatives accountable. Federal…
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The Cost of Regulation and Intervention
Download Chapter 3 as a PDF Regulation and spending are related; both are implements by which governments act or compel individuals. Therefore, policy…
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Thousands of Pages and Rules in the Federal Register
Download Chapter 4 as a PDF The Federal Register is the daily repository of all proposed and final federal rules and regulations. Although…
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Presidential Executive Orders and Executive Memoranda
Download Chapter 5 as a PDF Executive orders, presidential memoranda, and other executive actions make up a large component of executive “lawmaking” but…
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More than 22,000 Public Notices Annually
Download Chapter 6 as a PDF In addition to the Federal Register’s tally of some presidential memoranda, public notices in the Federal…
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Analysis of the Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulation
Download Chapter 7 as a PDF The “Regulatory Plan and Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions” (the Agenda) is where agencies…
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Government Accountability Office Database on Regulations
Download Chapter 8 as a PDF The various federal reports and databases on regulations serve different purposes: The Federal Register shows the…
Investor's Business Daily
Federal Regulations Now Cost Almost $1.9 Trillion, Study Finds
Investor's Business Daily reports on Clyde Wayne Crews's annual analysis on the costs of regulations. CEI’s latest “10,000 Commandments” adds up the total…
Washington Examiner
Cost of regulations under Obama reach $1.9 trillion, $14,842 ‘hidden tax’ on every family
The Washington Examiner reports on Clyde Wayne Crews's annual analysis on the costs of regulation. The annual "Ten Thousand Commandments" report from the…
Politico
Obama to Flint
Politico's Morning Energy discusses with Sam Kazman the subpoena from Attorney General Claude Walker to CEI and other organizations as part of an intimidation campaign to…
Fox News
Report: Federal regulations costing US $1.9T annually
Fox News reports on Clyde Wayne Crews's annual report on the costs of federal regulations. The annual Ten Thousand Commandments report was released…
Daily Caller
Economy Hit With Hidden $1.9 Trillion Tax From Federal Regulations
The Daily Caller reports on Clyde Wayne Crews's annual report on the costs of federal regulation. Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) describes the thousands…
Washington Free Beacon
Dem AG Targets 90 Conservative Groups in Climate Change Racketeering Suit
The Washington Free Beacon reports on the subpoena Attorney General Claude Walker sent CEI and other organizations as part of the intimidation campaign to silence…
Cato Unbound
The Administrative State’s Irredeemable Devotion to Central Power
Washington Examiner
Shock report: Federal red tape eats 11% GDP, rivals ALL pretax corporate profits
Washington Examiner reports on Wayne Crews's annual report on the size and cost of the federal regulatory state. The annual "Ten Thousand Commandments" report…
The Hill
Federal regulations cost economy $1.9T in 2015, controversial study claims
The Hill discusses with Wayne Crews his annual report on the size and costs of federal regulations. The cost of federal regulations is…
Fox News
Report: Federal regulations costing US $1.9T annually
Fox News discusses the cost of federal regulations as cited in Wayne Crews's annual report. Federal regulations are now costing U.S. taxpayers and businesses…
Heartland Institute
Kent Lassman: CEI Subpoenaed on Climate Change Dissent
The Heartland Institute discusses the subpoena CEI recieved from an attorney general with Kent Lassman. In today's edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast,…
Heartland Institute
Bill Reining in Last-Minute Rulemaking Advances in Congress
The Heartland Institute discusses midnight regulations with Clyde Wayne Crews. Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., vice president for policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute,…
Washington Times
Cost of complying with federal regulations hits $1.9 trillion — higher than federal tax burden
Washington Times discusses Wayne Crews's annual report on the size and cost of federal regulations. “Regulations cost more than the federal income tax,”…
Townhall
Yowza: Federal Regulations Are Costing Americans Insane Amounts of Money
Townhall reports on Wayne Crews's study on the size and cost of federal government regulation. According to a new report released by the…
Politico
Obama to Flint
Politico's Morning Energy discusses the subpoena CEI recieved from the attorney general as part of the intimidation campaign to silence the debate on climate change. …
Wealth Management
Why the DOL Rule Is Bad for Small Savers
The Department of Labor’s (DOL) “fiduciary rule,” likely to first take effect in June unless blocked by Congress or the courts, will deprive small…
Daily Caller
Inhofe: AGs Using Extreme Tactic To Silence Global Warming Skeptics
The Daily Caller discussses Attorney General Claude Walker's subpoena of CEI with Senator Jim Inhofe. Exxon and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the…
AMI Newswire
TSA body scanner rule challenged in federal court
AMI Newswire interviews Marc Scribner about CEI's lawsuit over TSA airport body scanners: "It is unclear to TSA how the risk associated with motor…
News Release
Federal Regulation Cost Reaches $1.885 Trillion
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George Mason University Should Obey Court, Release Public RICO-20 Records
Today, the Virginia Circuit Court in Richmond issued a ruling in our case under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (VFOIA), Christopher Horner and…
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NYT’s Sensationally Incorrect Headline and Other Climate Notes
The silliest news items are those that belie their headlines, as is the case with a sensational front-page story in today’s New York Times, titled…
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Companies May Scrutinize Employee Activity More under DOL’s Proposed Overtime Rule
The battle over the Department of Labor’s proposed overtime rule is heating up. A number of business groups, labor unions, and progressive organizations have met…
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Burning Ivory Is Not the Solution
A few days ago, Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta set fire to giant pile after giant pile of elephant ivory confiscated from poachers. Some 105…
Forbes
When Anything Could Be The ‘Next Tobacco’
When political operators win big with a clever legal strategy, you can be sure it’ll be used again. One strategy that paid off handsomely for…
Washington Times
New concerns about free speech – Letter to the Editor
The Justice Department’s demand that the University of New Mexico define any “unwelcome” speech about sexual matters as “sexual harassment” violates the First Amendment. (“‘Harassment’…
Daily Caller
Navajo Nation In Crisis As EPA Tries To Shutter The West’s Largest Coal Plant
The Daily Caller discusses the impacts of the EPA's Regional Haze rule with William Yeatman. William Yeatman, a research fellow at the Competitive…
Daily Caller
AGs Use Exxon Probe To Target Dozens Of Conservative Groups And Scientists Photo of Michael Bastasch
The Daily Caller reports on the subpoena CEI recieved from Attorney General Claude Walker which was an attack on CEI's free speech. Walker’s…
Washington Examiner
Attorney general targets more free-market think tank emails
The Washington Examiner reports on CEI's response to a subpoena they recieved as part of the attorneys general intimidation campaign to silence the debate on climate…
News Release
CEI Defeats RICO-20 Ringleader In FOIA Lawsuit
News Release
CEI Responds to Release of Exxon Mobil Subpoena
On May 3, 2016, The Washington Times reported on an unredacted version of the subpoena of Exxon Mobil from U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney…
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Reason’s Bob Poole Sets Record Straight on Air Traffic Control Reform
Reason Foundation Director of Transportation Policy Bob Poole has an excellent article in National Review debunking the myths peddled by a handful of conservatives on the House’s AIRR Act…
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Congress Needs to Halt DOL Regulatory Onslaught
Last week, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) called out recent Department of Labor policies as having a “chilling effect” on the economy. Ryan’s statements were…
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