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Federal Reinsurance for Homeowner’s Insurance: Another Capitol Hill Disaster.
Storm clouds over Capitol Hill. House Banking Committee members are teetering on the brink of triggering a mega-disaster this week that is pointed…
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Superfund Legislation: True Reform or a Hazardous Waste?
Given the green light by House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) to produce Superfund reform legislation before the session’s end, House Republicans are racing…
Insider Online
Selling Ideas in a Rationally Ignorant World
Conservative intellectuals are increasingly frustrated at the policy impasse of the last five years. Weren’t we told that if we built a better mousetrap, the…
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Cars, Women, and Minorities: The Democratization of Mobility in America
Full Document Available in PDF The central role of…
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Kemp Challenges Pew Center to Global Warming Debate
Washington, DC, November 1, 1999 – In an open letter published in today’s Roll Call newspaper, Competitive Enterprise Institute Distinguished Fellow Jack Kemp invited…
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Kemp Challenges Pew Center to Global Warming Debate
Washington, DC, November 1, 1999 – In an open letter published in today’s Roll Call newspaper, Competitive Enterprise Institute Distinguished Fellow Jack Kemp invited…
News Release
ER Physicians: “FDA is Too Slow”
WASHINGTON, DC, October 29, 1999—A new nationwide poll of emergency room physicians sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) finds that delays in FDA…
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ER Physicians: “FDA is Too Slow”
WASHINGTON, DC, October 29, 1999—A new nationwide poll of emergency room physicians sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) finds that delays in FDA…
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Running On MTBE: Closing The Pumps On The Oxygen Content Requirement
Debate is raging in Congress and in many state legislatures regarding the federal Clean Air Act’s reformulated gasoline (RFG) program, which requires the addition…
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Vol. III, No. 22
Politics Bonn is Underway The fifth Conference of the Parties (COP-5) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is under way…
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GOP Continues Attack On Property Rights? CEI Expert Testifies On National Heritage Areas Policy Act Of 1999
Insider Online
An Antitrust Division Run Amok (Letter to the Editor)
I would have happily signed a letter urging a cap on the Depart ment of Justice’s Antitrust Division budget if I’d been asked [`Hardball and Windows,” op-ed, Oct.
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Shadow Insurance Committee to Meet October 25 to Review Catastrophe Insurance Financing & Redlining Issues
Washington, D.C., October 22, 1999 – The Shadow Insurance Regulation Committee will hold its second meeting of the year at 12 noon on October…
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Institute Blasts Clinton Proposal For Costly New Rules For SUVs And Minivans: May Worsen Air Pollution
Washington, DC, December 21, 1999 – President Clinton today finalized new Environmental Protection Agency rules for motor vehicles and gasoline. These so-called Tier 2/sulfur…
Products
Environmental Sweetheart Suits
Environmental sweetheart suits.
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Taking Humor Seriously
With summer coming to an end, we at CEI have been spending some time mulling over some of the great questions facing our country.
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Cows or Buffaloes?
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Lance Armstrong — Going Postal
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Lessons From Cypress Bay
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The Gore Report
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Odds & Ends: Koala Kondoms, Courtroom Insanity, Superdisasters, The Folly and the Ivy
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Comments Submitted in the FTC/NTIA Workshop on Online Profiling
These comments will address the following questions: I. What are the costs and benefits, to both industry and consumers, of online profiling? II. Are…
Op-Eds
Forest Fires Rage as Government Fiddles: Bob Nelson Op-Ed in LA Times
Published in the Los Angeles Times Published in the Los Angeles Times October 17, 1999 COLLEGE PARK, MD —…
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Kemp: On Kyoto, The Issue Is Power
The Kyoto Protocol on global warming, and its underlying premise that the entire world’s energy policies can be regulated pursuant to an international treaty,…
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Vol. III, No. 21
Politics CAFE and Presidential Politics The Greens launched a major effort this year to block a freeze on the Corporate Average Fuel Economy…
News Release
New Book Brings Balance To Environmental Education
Washington, D.C., October 6, 1999 – This week marks the release of the second edition of Facts, Not Fear: Teaching Children About the Environment…
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A National Survey Of Emergency Room Physicians Regarding The Food And Drug Administration
Full Study Available in PDF Format…
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Entrepreneurs Still Finding Sunny Skies
When JetBlue Airlines makes its debut this winter, its passengers may be reaching for buckets of popcorn instead of peanuts. The airline industry’s latest contender,…
Newsletter
Vol. III, No. 20
Politics Climate Change Funding Unabated The Clinton-Gore Administration continues to engage in attempts at backdoor implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. Last year Congress…
Insider Online
The IMF Beyond Its Time
Recent scandals involving the International Monetary R Fund have prompted Congress to seek ways to reform the IMF’s lending practices. Rather than applying another bandage…
Insider Online
A Fund of Contention
Whom would you prefer to make strategic decisions for your high-tech business (or one whose stock you own): bureaucrats, or experienced entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and the…
News Release
New Federal Tobacco Suit: “Give Me The Money!”
WASHINGTON, DC, September 22, 1999 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute charged that today’s federal government lawsuit against the tobacco industry demonstrated that tobacco revenues…
Insider Online
Reinsurance Proposal Troubling
As Floyd moves up the coastline, it appears that most property owners have dodged the burden of potentially devastating losses that could stress private-insurance markets:…
Insider Online
Feds Prepare to Gobble Up Land
Newsletter
Vol. III, No. 19
Politics Bush Attacks Kyoto Those who are concerned about the adverse economic consequences of cutting energy use to prevent the dubious threat of…
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Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce
Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce September 14-15, 1999 New York, New York Executive Summary Statement of Frances B. Smith Executive Director, Consumer Alert September 9,…
Investors
Free (Trash) Trade
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Capital Markets: The Importance of Lower Taxes
Investors
Urban Growth Boundaries Not so Smart for Growth (Letter to the Editor)
The Aug. 30 District Forum on revitalizing regional smart growth argued that “the challenges of growth can only be met successfully at the regional level.”…
Investors
Stop the Scaremongering
Reading “an early draft” of a federal government report has helped David Ignatius see that the global warming debate is just like the tobacco wars…
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Facts Not Fear
In schools today, it is typical to see walls covered with posters depicting endangered animals. Students hold tee-shirt sales to raise money to save…
Newsletter
Vol. III, No. 18
Politics The Candidates’ Views on Kyoto As a resource to our readers, the Cooler Heads newsletter is providing the views of the presidential…
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The Case For Repealing Antitrust Law
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Pests in Congress
On August 2, the Environmental Protection Agency announced new restrictions and. bans on the use of methyl parathion and azinphosmethyl, two pesticides used widely…
News Release
CEI releases solid waste study: Trashing The Poor
Washington, DC, August 27, 1999 – A new study published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) shows that despite politicians rhetoric, interstate trade of…
News Release
CEI Launches Radio Campaign Against CAFE
Washington, DC, August 26, 1999 – Federal regulations that mandate fuel efficiency for new cars are also making them less safe, contributing to thousands…
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Babbitt Endangers Facts as Peregrine Falcon Soars from Federal Shackles
Washington, DC, August 23, 1999 – The Peregrine Falcon – renowned for its 200 mph dives when it attacks prey – has been removed…
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Babbitt Endangers Facts as Peregrine Falcon Soars from Federal Shackles
Washington, DC, August 23, 1999 – The Peregrine Falcon – renowned for its 200 mph dives when it attacks prey – has been removed…
Investors
Market Strategies Beneficial to Nature
There is a growing consensus among academics and policy makers that U.S. environmental policy needs dramatic change. While environmental reform remains at a standstill, there is a…
Washington Times
A DOT Driving Record
Washington Times
Naysay Now, Pay Later
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Jack Kemp: Closing Down the Hard Times CAFE
Congress soon will decide whether to continue the “freeze” on existing CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards that have been in place for…
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Vol. III, No. 17
Politics Clinton’s Biomass Program In an obvious attempt to buy support from farmers for its global warming policies, the Clinton Administration has unveiled its latest…
Op-Eds
New Pricing Plans Are Good
This isn’t your father’s telecommunications market. Long-distance pricing was once onesize-fits-all, with high, distance-sensitive rates cast in stone by regulators. Now that is changing, as…
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Microsoft Trial: The Heat is On
View Full Document as PDF This summer, the heat is on Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson even more than the rest of…
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Anti-“Sprawl” Policy: Congested Thinking and Dense Logic
“Urban sprawl” has morphed into a catchall phrase that describes the cause and consequence of any social deviation related to the suburbs, including, and…
Washington Times
Tyranny of the Unelected Regulators
Congress passed and the president signed into law 241 bills in 1998. Meanwhile, federal agencies were far busier: They issued 4,899 rules and regulations — 315…
Op-Eds
Regulations Stunt the Growth of Agricultural Biotech
Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman gave what he intended to be a strongly pro-biotechnology speech July 13, predicting that biotechnological solutions would help to “create…
Washington Times
America’s Flushing Crisis
Washington Times
Misguided Measures Would Make Poor and Elderly Feel the Heat
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Vol. III, No. 16
Politics Knollenberg Language Strengthened Congressional attempts to limit federal agencies’ efforts to implement or promote the Kyoto Protocol have intensified during the current appropriations cycle.
Washington Times
Toilets as conservation tools
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Third Way Route Jams Trade: Kemp Op-Ed in Financial Times
There is an international movement hard at work to concentrate power over economic decision-making–public, private, and across national boundaries–in a “global elite” that is unaccountable…
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Compassionate Conservatism” — The Feminization Or The Liberalization Of Republican Policy?
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Lawmakers Trashing the Poor?
Full Study Available In PDF Format For more than two decades, various states have battled…
Washington Times
Unchecked Regulatory Creep
Op-Eds
Law Deserves to be Flushed Away
In one of the silliest ideas yet to come down the pike (or pipe), Congress entered the plumbing fixture design business in 1992, mandating strict…
Comment
A Federal Catastrophe? Testimony of Tom Miller on Reinsurance Coverage for Catastrophic Losses
Washington Times
Down With the Potty Police
Op-Eds
Corporate Welfare: Bad Business All Around
The stock market is at record highs. The economy has been booming. So why are many of America’s largest corporations still receiving handouts from Uncle Sam? The Budget…
Washington Times
Feeding the Green Money Tree
The Clinton-Gore administration continues to thumb it nose at the Constitution by trying to implement a global warming treaty (the Kyoto Protocol) that has not…
News Release
Flushing Federal Regulations Down The (Low-Flo) Toilet
Washington, DC, July 27, 1999 – Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) policy analyst Ben Lieberman, representing CEI and 8 other members of the National Consumer…
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Congress To Reconsider Ban on High Capacity Toilets
Washington, DC, July 27, 1999 – Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power, Ben Lieberman, policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
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Congress To Reconsider Ban on High Capacity Toilets
Washington, DC, July 27, 1999 – Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power, Ben Lieberman, policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
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Testimony of Ben Lieberman on The Plumbing Standards Improvement Act
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Speedbumps, Potholes, and Detours on the Road to Social Security Reform
As Yogi Berra once said, “You’ve got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going ’cause you might not get there.” This year’s…
Human Events
Lazio Opens Backdoor to Global Warming Treaty
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Electricity Deregulation: Wired or Tangled in the 106th Congress’s Committees?
When policymakers embark upon restructuring as opposed to deregulating a heavily regulated industry, they risk creating more regulation than existed before. This is…
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Electricity Reform in Colorado: A Resource Guide for Citizens & Policymakers
Executive Summary ·Deregulation of telecommunications, natural gas, and transportation saved American consumers billions of dollars, created new choices among sellers and spurred numerous…
Newsletter
Vol. III, No. 15
Politics Early Action Credits: Road to Kyoto Early action crediting is being promoted as a way to protect industry in the event that the…
Washington Times
One More Consumer
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Global Warming Heats Up in the House
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EPA to Release Data on Worst Case Scenarios
Washington, DC, July 20, 1999 – “Unless the House of Representatives acts immediately, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will soon release information that essentially…
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Regulatory ‘Right to Know’
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CEI: Emissions Trading Doesn’t Work
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Dumb and Dumber: Two Wrongs Don’t Make A Patients’ Bill of Rights
This week, the Senate considers legislation to impose a lengthy laundry list of new federal regulations and accompanying costs on employer-insured health plans. The…
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The Data Access Law: Promoting Accountability and Privacy
With the passage of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in 1966, our society decided to promote government transparency: what is done in government’s name…
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Kemp to Testify Before Congress Against Early Action Legislation
Washington, DC, July 13, 1999 – “Will corporations fall for global-warming trickery?” asked the Honorable Jack Kemp, Distinguished Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
News Release
Institute Opposes “Patients’ Bill of ‘Wrongs'”
Washington, D.C., July 13, 1999 – This week the United States Senate is considering the “Patients’ Bill of Rights,” an amalgam of various mandates…
Comment
Federal Standards for Internet Privacy: A Skeptical Approach
Op-Eds
When Auto Safety Is Against the Law
In 1997, between 20 and 40 Connecticut residents were killed by a defective product. The dangers ofI this product have been documented for more than…
Washington Times
Superstores Helpful (Letter to the Editor)
The article ” ‘Good simplicity’ falls by the wayside” by reporter Craig Wilson asserts that “shopping at the mall or Wal-Mart or a fast food…
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The SAFE Bill: Keying in on Encryption Reform
View Full Document as PDF Despite Clinton Administration steps towards liberalizing American encryption policy, some members of the House of Representatives…
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Vol. III, No. 14
Politics Court Ruling Defeats Kyoto In May the federal appeals court invalidated the Environmental Protection Agency’s standards for ozone and particulate matter on the grounds…
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Market-Based Chimera: Emission Trading Fails to Deliver
View Full Document as PDF The Clinton-Gore Administration is trying to persuade the American people that the Kyoto Protocol, the most ambitious…
Op-Eds
Michigan by the Sea: Bob Nelson Article in Weekly Standard
Michigan by the Sea Published in The Weekly Standard July5/July 12, 1999 issue In the 1980s and ’90s,…
Washington Times
No Kyoto in Kemp (Letter to the Editor)
I enjoy reading the Spectator, particularly “On the Prowl,” even though it sometimes strays out of the nonfiction category, and the May issue is a…
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Court Invalidates EPA Rules
With a pro-regulation White House and a timid Republican Congress, the judicial branch currently stands as the only real roadblock to federal regulatory excesses.
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Odds and Ends: Tort King’s Comeuppance; Brown vs. Barons of Education; Slandering Produce; Al Gore’s Math
Don’t Slander that Carrot! Among the poisonous fallout from the Alar apple scare a decade ago is a spate of food…
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