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Obama Administration Memo: Keep Paying Union Bosses on Official Time
Over the weekend, the House unanimously passed the Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act. If passed by the Senate, all furloughed federal employees will receive…
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CEI Today: Obama shuts down tourist attractions, new regs put on hold, too, and what’s the planet’s biggest problem?
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
113 new regulations, from drawbridge schedules to viticultural areas.
Human Events
Shutdown? What shutdown?
Capital Research
The EPA’s War Against the States: States are supposed to lead in fighting pollution, but federal bureaucrats have usurped the states’ role
Full Document Available in PDF Summary: Congress intended the Environmental Protection Agency to work closely with state and local officials—those nearest to…
The Hill
Shutdown halts federal regs
“We’re very pleased that the Obama administration’s ongoing efforts to wreck the U.S. economy with more and more heavy-handed and colossally expensive regulations has been…
Washington Examiner
Obama White House closing private businesses to add pain to government shutdown
Obama administration officials are using the government shutdown as an excuse to shut down privately-run tourist attractions, even though doing so costs the government far…
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CEI Today: Twitter IPO aided by JOBS Act, Obama barricades tourist sites, and EPA destruction of public records
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Some Genuine Vindictiveness in Park Closings
The Washington Times story on the attempted forced shut down of the Pisgah Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina may provide some…
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Obama Administration Unnecessarily Shuts Down Many Private Businesses in Government “Shutdown”
PJ Media's Bryan Preston reported Wednesday that the "White House [is] ordering hundreds of privately run, private funded parks to close," using the government…
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Selfishness Underlies the Shutdown, At Home and Abroad
Americans aren’t the only ones talking about government shutdown this week. Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi almost collapsed Italy’s government on Wednesday by threatening…
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Twitter IPO a Vindication of Bipartisan JOBS Act
Almost two years ago, I wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed entitled, "Making It Legal to Tweet for Investors." In the op-ed, I described bipartisan bills…
Washington Examiner
Kansas Supreme Court reverses permit granted to Sunflower coal plant
Brian McNicoll, senior communications director at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which advocates limited government, said experts at his think tank believe that if the new…
News Release
Twitter – and Investors – Gain from JOBS Act Regulatory Relief
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 – In its much-anticipated initial public offering filing released Thursday night, Twitter unveiled a company with some room for growth – much…
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CEI Podcast for October 3, 2013: The Federal Shutdown
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Regulators and Justice
The federal government cajoled JP Morgan into acquiring Bear Stearns. Now they are punishing JP Morgan for crimes allegedly committed by Bear Stearns prior to…
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Obama Administration Uses “Government Shutdown” as Pretext to Block Access to Tourist Attractions
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CEI Suit Seeks Injunction Against Ongoing EPA Record Destruction
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 – Attorneys with the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed suit Thursday to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from destroying senior officials’ records, a…
Daily Caller
Lawyers: Private parks should sue Obama administration for forcing them to close
“As a lawyer who once worked for the government, I assume there is no legal authority for this because these private tourist attractions were not…
Daily Caller
Labor analyst: Volkswagen workers claim ‘misled’ by UAW
Matt Patterson, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, says the issue is important because, if it’s true, it would “significantly compromise” the union’s chances…
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NYC Rubber Rooms Still Packed
Just three years ago, New York City Mayor Bloomberg and the United Federation of Teachers publicly heralded a deal to end "rubber rooms," the reassignment…
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CEI v. EPA – Sept 11 Opposition to Motion for Summary Judgment in Richard Windsor Lawsuit
Full Document Available in PDF Defendant’s motion for summary judgment should be rejected, because it has not complied with this…
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Regulatory Transparency Is Decidedly Lacking
The Office of Management and Budget reviewed a grand total of 47 regulations last year, or a little more than 1 percent of the total.
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Please, Think of the Pandas!
Daily Caller
Environmentalists blame GOP for government shutdown
“This is a totally phony complaint that comes up every time there is a federal shutdown or threat of a shutdown,” Myron Ebell, director of…
Washington Times
The real cost of federal regulations
When the news broke that the National Security Agency has been monitoring Americans’ communications, the Obama administration was reluctant to discuss if it…
Washington Times
Government Shutdown, Italian Style
Misery loves company, goes the old saying. And in the face of government shutdown, America is not entirely alone. Head to Italy and the average…
News Release
Congress Should End Wind Energy Tax Handout
Washington, DC, Oct. 2, 2013 – Absent action by Congress, the federal Wind Production Tax Credit will expire at the end of this year, but…
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Marek v. Lane cert petition in the Wall Street Journal
In The Wall Street Journal, David Rivkin and Lee Casey write about Marek v. Lane, arguing that it’s time to end class-action settlements…
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Playground Slavery
Forbes
Is Eric Holder Playing Don Corleone To Jamie Dimon’s Bonasera?
As Don Corleone said to Bonasera in The Godfather’s iconic opening scene, “Some day, and that day may never come, I’ll ask a service of you.” For…
Investor's Business Daily
Shutdown Grounds Lawyers In US Air, American Case
Marc Scribner, analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank, earlier said: "American, if it isn't able to merge with US Air, is…
Tri Valley Central
EPA urged to update rules on secret email accounts
Chris Horner, the senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute credited with uncovering the Windsor email account, said it was a mistake for the inspector…
PBS
What Climate Change Skeptics Think About the UN Report
“The global warming establishment is in denial,” said Myron Ebell, director of Freedom Action and the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “The IPCC…
News Release
CEI Announces New Warren Brookes Journalism Fellow: Bill Frezza
National Review
Public Citizen’s Unfair Attack on Arbitration
The National Review discusses with Ted Frank how class action suits benefit the lawyers rather than the class member. In reality, as Ted…
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CEI Today: Climate change white wash and contradictory Obama regs
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Obamacare Quadruples Rates for Some, Subsidizes Some Wealthy Who Retired Early
Due to Obamacare, North Carolina "will see individual-market" health insurance rates "triple for women, and quadruple for men." In Tennessee, Obamacare will…
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Green Policies Translate Into Less Food, Higher Prices
Thanks to misguided bureaucracy and fear mongering from environmental activists, myriad valuable products are disappearing from the marketplace. Walmart, Proctor & Gamble, and…
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
80 new regulations, from bird hunting to fluted kidneyshells.
Human Events
A Final Blow on the War on Coal
A funny thing happened on the way to the coal plant the other day. But it wasn’t ha-ha funny. In fact, it was tragic –…
Human Events
IG: ‘No evidence’ EPA used private emails to keep records secret
Jackson also came under fire from critics when documents released to the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute showed that in late 2009, she asked an official…
Human Events
Will Sen. Landrieu choose what’s right for Louisiana?
There does seem to be something about Mary. At least there always seems to be something about Mary when it comes down to close votes…
Human Events
Sunday pops
But Competitive Enterprise Institute numbers crunchers easily identified billions upon billions of dollars of the fattest of fat. But, then again, it’s pretty difficult to…
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CEI Weekly: Trimming the Federal Budget
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California Labor Board Rejects Farm Workers’ Petition to Decertify Union
On September 25, the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board denied a petition submitted by Gerawan Farming workers to decertify the United Farm Workers union.
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Environmental Regulations Threaten Refining Sector Jobs
I had the privilege of meeting with Charlie Drevna, President of American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers this week. He had some extremely interesting things to…
Independent
IPCC report: The financial markets are the only hope in the race to stop global warming
Myron Ebell , the right-wing think tank the US Competitive Enterprise Institute “Global warming, although it may become a problem some decades in the…
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CEI’s Ebell: Warming Alarmists Still ‘In Denial’ Over Climate Data
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2013 – Disappointed in results that show the warming trends of the 1990s seem to have ended, the environmental left has stepped…
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