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• By: CEI Staff
• 05/23/2013

On May 22, 2013 the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions approved President Barack Obama’s five nominees for the National Labor Relations Board…

Labor and Employment

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/23/2013

In the American Spectator, CEI Vice President for Strategy Iain Murray and Geoffrey McLatchey explain why the Senate should be skeptical of the United Nations Convention…

Insurance

• By: Matthew Melchiorre
• 05/23/2013

Does austerity kill? In a recent New York Times op-ed, David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu claim that fiscal austerity leads to a worsening of health…

Consumer Well-Being

• CEI Staff
• 05/23/2013

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 23, 2013 – In today’s Senate Agriculture Committee markup hearing on the 2013 Farm Bill, members will consider an amendment introduced…

Food and Beverage Regulation

• By: CEI Staff
• 05/23/2013

Now comes word that the Environmental Protection Agency has been abusing the Freedom of Information Act. Agencies can charge FOIA request makers for the…

Banking and Finance

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/22/2013

It's hard to get rid of a career bureaucrat, even at the managerial level. "After you've been here for a year, it's easier to kill…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/22/2013

The twentieth anniversary edition of Ten Thousand Commandments was released this week. Author Wayne Crews discusses the study, and how regulation has evolved over the…

Regulatory Reform

• By: David Bier
• 05/22/2013

First, if each new immigrant lowers living standards, new people also lower living standards. But without new people, America’s economy would lack the workers it…

Immigration

• By: Matt Patterson
• 05/22/2013

In other news, mice like cheese. "NTEU supported the re-election of President Obama as being in the best interests...of the dedicated men and women of…

Labor and Employment

• By: Trey Kovacs
• 05/22/2013

Use by state and local governments of tax dollars to reward special interests is a longstanding plague on the health of our government finances. But…

Labor and Employment

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/22/2013

Progressives such as those at the Daily Kos are arguing that it would have been just fine to for the IRS to investigate all groups…

Consumer Freedom

• By: CEI Staff
• 05/22/2013

On May 21, 2013 Tea Party Patriots coordinated protest rallies at over 100 IRS offices throughout the nation. I arrived at the national office in…

Labor and Employment

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 05/22/2013

Americans spent an estimated $1.8 trillion in 2012 to comply with federal regulations, reports the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The public policy organization has just released…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 05/22/2013

$1.8 trillion buys a lot of red tape. That’s how much the federal regulatory machine is costing Americans each year, according to the…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Iain Murray
• 05/22/2013

Coauthored with Geoffrey McClatchey. The United States Senate will likely soon consider ratification the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD),…

Trade and International

• Christine Hall, Fran Smith
• 05/22/2013

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 22, 2013 — In a loss for consumers and taxpayers, Congress once again voted to continue the outdated, wasteful sugar program. The…

Trade and International

• By: Trey Kovacs
• 05/21/2013

Yesterday the Chicago Teachers Union wrapped up a three-day protest over the yet to be determined but possible closure of more than 50 public schools.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/21/2013

Over at the Daily Caller, Wayne and I briefly summarize of few of the report’s findings.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Matt Patterson
• 05/21/2013

What did the President know, and when did he know it? That is the question many are asking in the wake of the unfolding scandal…

Labor and Employment

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 05/21/2013

The scope of federal government spending and deficits is sobering. Yet the government's reach extends well beyond taxation and spending. Federal regulations cost hundreds of…

Regulatory Reform

• CEI Staff
• 05/21/2013

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 21, 2013 – In the twenty years since the creation of Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory…

Regulatory Reform

• Christine Hall
• 05/21/2013

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 21, 2013 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based free market think tank, commends legislation introduced by Sens. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) and…

Banking and Finance

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 05/21/2013

This week marks the publication of the 20th anniversary edition of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual survey of the federal regulatory state, Ten Thousand Commandments.

Regulatory Reform

• By: William Frezza
• 05/21/2013

The importance of profiting from one’s efforts ought to be an easy concept to embrace. It is why humans no longer live in caves. If…

Banking and Finance

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 05/20/2013

Full Document Available in PDF 1. This is the 20th anniversary of Ten Thousand Commandments. In that time, 81,883 final rules have…

Regulatory Reform

• By: John Berlau
• 05/20/2013

By definition, if a bill is sponsored by Sens. Mark Udall, D-Colo., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., or any similarly odd ideological couples in the House, it…

Regulatory Reform

• By: David Bier
• 05/20/2013

America’s immigration debate often focuses on how immigrants affect the welfare state, even though many immigration restrictionists would oppose immigration even if we did…

Immigration

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/20/2013

Starting January 1, 2014, any olive oil served at EU restaurants “must be in pre-packaged, factory bottles with a tamper-proof dispensing nozzle and labelling in…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Trey Kovacs
• 05/20/2013

Even though a survey conducted by the Minnesota Licensed Family Child Care Association showed 86 percent of family childcare providers in Minnesota oppose pending legislation…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/20/2013

The Wall Street Journal editorial board weighed in this morning on the issue of regulation, citing a few numbers from the forthcoming 20th anniversary edition…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/20/2013

This week in the world of regulation: Last week, 71 new final regulations were published in the Federal Register. This is up from 64 new final…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 05/20/2013

President Obama is opposing a bill passed by the House last week that would require the Securities and Exchange Commission to better measure the costs…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/17/2013

Height limits for flying witches on broomsticks, mandatory street musician auditions, and more.

Regulatory Reform

• By: David Bier
• 05/17/2013

Now that IRS officials have been caught red-handed targeting conservative organizations, it is reasonable to ask whether officials at other federal agencies also need more…

Labor and Employment

• By: CEI Staff
• 05/17/2013

The Internal Revenue Services claims to be “one of the world's most efficient tax administrators.” But it may also be one of the most biased.

Labor and Employment

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 05/16/2013

News stories trumping junk science are common, but I expect better from Fox News, which claims to be "fair and balanced" and hosts great shows…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Matt Patterson
• 05/16/2013

Yes, a second court has now ruled that President Obama's "recess" appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional. The 2-1 decision from the…

Labor and Employment