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Strong Bush Prescription Needed to Cure an Overactive FDA: Henry Miller Guest Op-Ed
Much of the real work of the new Bush administration will be done not by the high-profile members of the president’s cabinet w…
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Gale Norton Under Assault by Pro-Regulation Greens
Washington, D.C., January 12, 2001 – Secretary of the Interior-Designate Gale Norton faces an uphill confirmation fight. Ms. Norton’s history of pursuing innovative…
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Malarial Madness: Western liberals deny third world an essential cure
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Vol. V, No. 1
Umbrella Group to Hold Secret Meeting in Sunny New Zealand The Japan Times (December 29, 2000)…
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Repeal the Logging Ban
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Midnight Madness — Washington Style: Lieberman SD Union Tribune Op-Ed
The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Press of Atlantic City They’re called midnight regulations — the flood of federal regulatory activity occurring in the closing…
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The Medicine Chest ‘Villain’: Roger Bate WT Op-Ed
Ever since I read “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” as a young boy, I have been a big fan of the mysteries penned by spy-master, John…
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Current Federal Approach to Wetlands All Wet
January 9, 2001 — Two developments yesterday on the issue of wetlands regulations demonstrate that, as CEI has long argued, the current federal…
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No Need for Another Social Security Commission: Kemp Syndicated Column
Published January 22, 2001 Published January 22, 2001 Distributed by Copley News Service One of the real highlights of…
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The Monumental Hoax Behind the Starlink Scare: Miller Op-Ed in the National Post
Published December 31, 2000 Published in the National Post (Canada) January 06, 2001 Headline: The Monumental Hoax Behind the…
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Only EPA Knows
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GWB’s Cabinet Picks: Washingtonpost.com Chat with CEI’s Myron Ebell
Text of online chat at washingtonpost Text of online chat at Washingtonpost.com with CEI’s Myron Ebell on George W. Bush’s cabinet selections…
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State Officials Rebuked for Regulatory Fervor Concerning Online Privacy
Washington DC, January 4, 2001 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute this week took state attorneys general to task for endorsing an extreme set…
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CEI Statement on Abraham Nomination
Statement On Statement On The Nomination of Senator Spence Abraham as Secretary of Energy by Myron Ebell Director of Global Warming &…
Washington Times
GOP likely to undo Clinton land Legacy
Washington Times
Bush Announces Nominees to Tackle the Tough Issues
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Tech Briefing 2001
High tech issues are at center stage in the 107th Congress. Broadband deployment, intellectual property, internet regulation and taxation, the “digital divide,”…
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The State on Autopilot
The almost-tie election, both in the presidential sweepstakes and in the House and Senate, suggest some problems ahead for the friends of economic…
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Rational Ignorance And Election Hype
Full Article Availabe in PDF Format Executive Summary A review of the recent election from the cultural value perspective…
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Truly a Golden Age, If We Can Keep It: Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column
Published December 31, 2000 Published December 31, 2000 Distributed by Copley News Service In 1787 as the…
Newsletter
Vol. IV, No. 26
So far President-Elect George W. Bush’s nominees for top positions look wobbly on global warming. Bush has chosen Christine Todd Whitman as his administrator of…
Washington Times
Forging Forward
To both President-elect W. George Bush and Vice President Al Gore, I offer Winston Churchill’s pro- found and comforting ‘thought that “victory is never final, defeat…
Washington Times
A Conservative for EPA
Washington Times
Racicot’s Answer OK with Right
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CEI Releases “Sprawl” Principles as Nation Awaits EPA Appointment
Washington, DC, December 21, 2000 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute, along with over one hundred other co-signers, announced ten principles for freedom…
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Organic Food Standards May Violate First Amendment
WASHINGTON, DC December 20, 2000—New standards for organic foods may violate First Amendment free speech rights, the Competitive Enterprise…
Washington Times
Bringing the Battle to the Suburbs
Proving that organized environmentalism is often as much about economics as it is ecology, and as much about social control as it is saving species, a…
Washington Times
Bringing the Battle to the Suburbs
Proving that organized environmentalism is often as much about economics as it is ecology, and as much about social control as it is saving species, a…
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The Govs Who Stole Christmas: Jessica Melugin Op-Ed
Chances are you purchased at least one gift over the Internet this Christmas season. The online shopping mall and research service Bizrate.com reported that shoppers…
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Forging Ahead: Jack Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column
Published November 27, 2000 Published December 18, 2000 Distributed by Copley News Service To both President-elect George Bush and…
Washington Times
Tax Reform Can be Everyone’s Agenda
While the marathon presidential election in Florida grinds to a conclusion, in Washington, D.C., members of Congress returned in lame-duck session to finish up this…
Newsletter
Vol IV, No. 25
Politics Ottawa Talks Can’t Break Ice Jam The collapse of the global warming negotiations in the Hague last month has not…
News Release
Lifesaving Chemical Escapes United Nations Ban
Washington, DC, December 13, 2000 – An international coalition of public health and advocacy groups applauded United Nations’ recent vote against erecting a…
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Tax Reform Advocates Say Call Flat Tax a Green Tax
Washington Times
Energy saving changes due for washing machines
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A New Tax System for the 21st Century: Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column
Published December 11, 2000 Distributed by Copley News Service While the marathon presidential election in Florida grinds to a conclusion,…
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How Good Intentions Kill: Roger Bate Op-Ed in the Financial Times
Washington Times
In Obscurity, Clinton Regime Saves Worst Regulations for Last
Americans have developed a fetish-like fixation on the “first hundred days” of incoming ‘administrations in the era of promise-us-everything politics. They use the honeymoon period…
Washington Times
Dredging the Hudson (Letter to the Editor)
To the Editor: Re “G.E. Facing Order to Remove. Poisons From the Hudson” (front page, Dec. 6) : The Environmental Protection Agency’s order to have…
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FTC Considers Privacy Violation Charges Against Amazon
Washington, DC, December 6, 2000 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today warned the commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission not to let…
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Comments Of The Competitive Enterprise Institute On The Department Of Energy’s Proposed Conservation Standards For Clothes Washers
I. SUMMARY The proposed clothes washer energy conservation standards will impose a substantial and unnecessary burden on American consumers. These proposed rules are in…
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Melugin Letter To The FTC
December 5, 2000Robert PitofskyChairmanThe Federal Trade Commission600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.Washington, DC 20580 Dear Chairman Pitofsky: Recently, Amazon.com contacted its…
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Department of Energy Planning Costly New Rules for Clothes Washers
A Bad Deal For American Consumers A Bad Deal For American Consumers Washington, DC, December 4, 2000 –…
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Department of Energy Planning Costly New Rules for Clothes Washers
Washington, DC, December 4, 2000 – CEI today filed regulatory comments with the Department of Energy (DOE) in opposition…
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FDA’s Pediatric Rule Challenged in Federal Lawsuit
A physicians’ association and two public interest groups today filed suit in federal court challenging the validity of the Food and Drug Administration’s “Pediatric Rule.”…
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Dec. 2000 UpDate Cover Story: Buying Nothing Helps No One
While most Americans celebrated blessings material and spiritual on Thanksgiving, the anti-consumer movement united to celebra While most Americans celebrated blessings material and…
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EPA court record dismal
Washington Times
Florida Panel Urges Special Session on Naming Electors
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…Until They Know You Care
The recent election results suggest that if classical liberals,libertarians and conservatives, and free-market advocates want From the December issue of CEI…
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Of Monkeys and Millipedes
“I would much rather be descended from an ape, sir, than a bishop From the December issue of CEI UpDate…