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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…
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A Federal Catastrophe? Testimony of Tom Miller on Reinsurance Coverage for Catastrophic Losses
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Down With the Potty Police
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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…
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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…
News Release
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…
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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…
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Federal Standards for Internet Privacy: A Skeptical Approach
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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…
Newsletter
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…
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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…
Products
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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Free Markets for Milk?
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Rethinking Electricity Deregulation: Does Open Access Have It Wired — Or Tangled? Testimony of Clyde Wayne Crews Before the House Energy and Commerce Committee
Newsletter
Vol. III, No. 13
Politics Bill to Ban Early Action Crediting Recent attempts to implement the Kyoto Protocol have come under the guise of giving emission credits to companies…
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The Congressional Responsibility Act: Ending Regulation Without Representation Press Conference June 23, 1999
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New Study Shows Death Toll Of Auto Fuel Economy Mandates
Full Study available via .pdf file. Washington, DC, June 21, 1999 – Of the 21,000 car occupant deaths that occurred last year, between…
News Release
June 22: Cost of Government Day
“Every year on April 15, million of taxpayers across the country file their 1040 forms, and are outraged at how much they have to send…
News Release
Institute Applauds Supreme Court Decision UpHolding First Amendmen Rights of Advertisers
Washington, DC, June 15, 1999 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) applauds yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in Greater New Orleans Broadcasting Association v. United…
Washington Times
Politically Incorrect Washing Machines
Federal government officials think your clothes washer is contributing to global warming—and they are going to do something about it. Over the past few years,…
Newsletter
Vol. III, No. 12
Politics Implementation Sans Ratification A leaked EPA document dated April 23, describes an April 7 meeting between EPA and White House staffers, and private…
News Release
David Riggs Joins CEI
Washington, D.C., June 8, 1999 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is pleased to welcome economist and policy analyst David Riggs to its environment…
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The Data Access Law: Decreasing Secret Science While Increasing Accountability
As the federal bureaucracy grows and Congress delegates more of its power to the agencies, the need for agency accountability increases. In October…
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Constitutional Integrity (Letter to the Editor)
A May 24 editorial, “A retreat on clean air,” suggests that holding Congress to the Constitution will make solid environmental protection a “hazy, distant prospect,”…
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Alternative to Kyoto Protocol Concedes Too Much
View Full Document as PDF The Energy and Climate Policy Act of 1999, S. 882, has been introduced as an alternative…
Washington Times
Books Celebrating Capitalism Should Have Made the Cut
In the contest between freedom and the state, freedom won. Capitalism triumphed both here and abroad, while statism failed in Cuba, Russia, England, Sweden, North Korea…
Washington Times
Who Makes Our Laws? (Letter to the Editor)
Surely Cass R. Sunstein is right that “greater respect for democratic government” is urgent (“The Courts’ Perilous Right Turn,” Op-Ed, June 2). But in his…
Washington Times
Water Everywhere
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NATO Raison D’Etre
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