Citation
Federal judge dismisses states’ challenge to Dodd-Frank law
Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the lawsuit brought last year by State National Bank of…
News Release
CEI Urges House Science Committee to Investigate Stratus Consulting’s Work on EPA’s Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 1, 2013 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute has sent a letter to Representative Paul Broun asking him to investigate the…
Blog
Not Lovin’ It: Angry Fast Food Workers Strike
"Hold the burgers, hold the fries, make our wages supersize!" This is one of the many chants shouted by the thousands of fast food workers…
Blog
The Modified State of the GMO Debate
The debate over whether or not to label products of genetically modified (GM) crops has seen a small revival after the Natural Products Association, a…
News Release
IRS Employees on Obamacare: “Not For Me, Thanks”
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 26, 2013 – IRS employees aren’t big fans of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—at least, not as far as it concerns their…
Citation
5 questions on high-speed rail and its U.S. future
According to a June report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank, the Federal Railroad Administration “has strict crash safety regulation for passenger…
Blog
Public Forum Re-cap: Chattanooga, UAW & Free Markets
WPC’s Matt Patterson was invited to speak at a public event about the possible costs and consequences Tennessee might face should the United Auto Workers…
News Release
Free Market Coalition Urges House to Defund Suspicionless NSA Spying
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 24, 2013 – A free-market coalition today urged members of the U.S. House of Representatives to vote yes on Reps. Justin Amash…
Blog
Motor City Runs Out of Gas
And here it is, the news we’ve all been expecting: The Motor City has finally sputtered to a halt. On Thursday July 18, 2013, the…
Policy.Mic
The Curious Case Of Michael Mann and the Most Controversial Chart in Science
Both Mann and the researchers at East Anglia have been investigated by almost a dozen different organizations, including both the governments of the…
Policy.Mic
Twelve Attorneys General Sue the EPA
According to a study by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), EPA granted FOIA fee waiver requests to environmental groups 92 percent of the time, but…
Policy.Mic
Apple, Facebook, Google and others urge greater government transparency
More than 50 parties signed the letter, including the ACLU, American Library Association, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Demand Progress, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Human Rights Watch, Salesforce.com,…
News Release
CEI Challenges Cordray to Live Up to His Recess Appointment Claims
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 17, 2013 — Richard Cordray has been approved as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), 19 months after he was…
News Release
CEI Sues EPA For Gina McCarthy’s Text and Training Records
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15, 2013 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed suit today in federal court to force the Environmental Protection Agency to…
Policy.Mic
House farm bill sows seeds for bigger legislative fight
The Competitive Enterprise Institute said the bill “greatly expands the crop insurance subsidy program.” Some subsidies could become permanent, too, because the bill repeals laws…
Blog
Bioscience Buzzwords: Seductive Notion or a Way Forward?
Innovation- it’s the buzzword of the day. From President Obama’s State of the Union address to Foreign Policy’s latest cover story to initiatives to revive…
Policy.Mic
Enviros, lefty groups, free-marketeers team up against nuclear corporate welfare
Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Tex., has filed an amendment to kill this bailout. A handful of groups from the libertarian-leaning R Street and Competitive Enterprise Institute…
Policy.Mic
Dodd-Frank, Obamacare And The Erosion Of The Rule Of Law
Just four months later, on July 21, 2010, Obama signed another monstrosity into law: the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, an 850-page bill that has generated…
News Release
CEI’s Berlau: “It’s About Time” SEC Permits Free Speech for Hedge Funds, VCs, and Entrepreneurs
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 10, 2013 — It took a year and three months after the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act was signed into law,…
Blog
Going Nowhere: Transit Workers’ Strike Immobilizes City
After scouring travel sites for hours, I finally found a great deal—the flight would land at the Oakland Airport (OAK) in the San Francisco Bay…
The Washington Times
EDITORIAL: Obamacare’s fatal flaw
Michael Carvin, who argued the Supreme Court’s Obamacare cases last year, is working with the Competitive Enterprise Institute to reverse the agency’s decision. “The…
The Washington Times
July Zeitgeist
Blog
Thanks to Students for Liberty at UTC!
WorkplaceChoice would like to thank Students for Liberty at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga for joining the “Save Chattanooga” campaign.
Blog
The Plot Thickens: Mystery Trip to Germany for Chattanooga City Officials
Earlier this month, Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke and Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger skipped the Mayor’s Industry Appreciation Breakfast in order to meet with…
News Release
CEI’s Labor Project Launches Educational Campaign in Chattanooga About United Auto Workers Union
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 28, 2013 — CEI Senior Fellow and Labor Project Director Matt Patterson has begun a summer-long campaign to educate business leaders,…
News Release
New Report Reveals Significant Increase in EPA Actions Under the Obama Administration
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 26, 2013 — A new report released today by the American Legislative Exchange Council shows a substantial increase in the power…
News Release
TSA Flouts Law With Vague Rule on Body Scanners
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2013 — Yesterday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and Robert L. Crandall, former chairman and CEO of AMR and American…
News Release
CEI Experts Welcome Court’s Decision to Rule on NLRB Case
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 24, 2013 – Legal and labor policy experts at the Competitive Enterprise Institute said today they are pleased the Supreme Court…
The Washington Times
Bad regulation is our biggest public scam
In the US, the Competitive Enterprise Institute recently surveyed the extent and cost of federal regulations. The Federal Register, a compendium of regulations, has swollen…
News Release
Border Security Amendments Won’t Work Without Legal Immigration Fix
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 13, 2013 — Yesterday, Sen. John Cornyn proposed a major amendment to the Senate immigration bill (S. 744), which would completely…
Study
Avoiding the Regulatory Cliff
Full Document Available in PDF A Bipartisan Agenda to Restore Limited Government and Revive America's Economy Whether you are new to…
News Release
Senate Immigration Bill Needs Rewrite on Guest Workers, Visa Regs, E-Verify, CEI Analyst Says
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 11, 2013 — Today, the Senate voted to proceed with debate on the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act…
The Washington Times
Now the Environmental Protection Agency
The allegations were first made by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington, D.C., think tank. It claimed the EPA was not being fair as…
The Washington Times
Government regs hurt passenger rail
That’s the message of this paper from the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The writers point out the American safety regulators require passenger rail cars to…
News Release
Plaintiffs in Obamacare Suit File Motion for Summary Judgment
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 7, 2013 — Yesterday, the individuals and small business owners who are suing the federal government over a major IRS regulation…
News Release
How To Be Patriotic on National Donut Day
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 6, 2013 — Tomorrow, June 7th, is National Donut Day. For some companies, the day is an occasion for unveiling new types…
News Release
It’s Not Just EPA; CEI Sues Social Security Administration for Ignoring FOIA Request
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 6, 2013 – It’s not just the Environmental Protection Agency that doesn’t seem to be able to respond to a Freedom of…
Blog
Epic Union Walkout a Total Failure
Ten years is a long time. For example, ten years ago Facebook did not exist. “Friends” was still in its 9th season. iTunes was only…
News Release
Reducing the Costs of Passenger Rail
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 5, 2013 – With passenger rail funding expiring in less than four months, Congress is poised to scrutinize core features of the…
The Washington Times
Top political appointees use secret email accounts
This article was also featured on the Drudge Report. The EPA’s secret email accounts were revealed last fall by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a…
The Washington Times
Abuse of Power Is Clearly Obama Policy
But maybe the answer lies in the workings of the Environmental Protection Agency, which appears to have been operating like a brother from another mother…
Blog
Who is Bob King?
The United Auto Workers union is desperately trying to organize Chattanooga’s Volkswagen plant. The union’s President, Bob King, has made it his personal mission to…
The Washington Times
EPA stonewalled records requests by Republican-led states
The free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute obtained documents showing that since January 2012, the EPA granted fee waivers for 92 percent of FOIA requests from major…
The Washington Times
Obama uses government to crush opponents
The Freedom of Information Act provides citizens access to government documents for a reasonable fee. When Obama’s environmental supporters seek a fee waiver, they get…
The Washington Times
Group goes to court over text messages of Obama’s EPA nominee
The conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking potential messages to or from McCarthy, the agency’s top air…
The Washington Times
A Legacy Litigated
Here’s the thinking behind the lawsuit, funded in part by the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute. The problem, apparently, is a drafting…
The Washington Times
The cost of regulations: Economic tyranny
The big-government Obama administration’s propensity for end runs around Congress exacerbates the unchecked growth of federal regulations that diminish both liberty and prosperity.
Blog
Oh, the Irony: Unions vs. The Liberal Agenda
In a new study released by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Senior Fellow Daniel DiSalvo found that the increasing cost of binding union contracts…
Blog
NLRB Nominees March Through the U.S. Senate
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…
The Washington Times
More mischief
Now comes word that the Environmental Protection Agency has been abusing the Freedom of Information Act. Agencies can charge FOIA request makers for the…