CEI Weekly: Lessons from the Supercommittee’s Failure
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CEI Weekly
December 2, 2011
>>Featured Story
The Supercommittee was charged with crafting real solutions for our nation’s budget problems—and they failed. CEI Adjunct Associate Matthew Melchiorre reports from his current home in Italy that the Supercommittee’s failure may bring the same economic woes to America that are now plaguing Italy. Read his op-ed on the issue here.
>> Shaping the Debate
Fairness in Union Elections (VIDEO)
Vincent Vernuccio’s interview on Fox News
Cut a Cabinet Department? You Must Be Joking
Matt Patterson’s op-ed in The Baltimore Sun
CEI Condemns Agency Plan to Restrict Salt Availability
Gregory Conko’s submitted comments
Ambush Election Prevention
Ivan Osorio and Vincent Vernuccio’s op-ed in The American Spectator
Watching the Wheels Come Off the Green Machine
Bill Frezza’s column in Forbes
Manhattan Moment: Here’s the Right Way to Do Regulatory Relief
Iain Murray’s op-ed in The Washington Examiner
Republicans for Sarbanes-Oxley
John Berlau’s op-ed in National Review
A Federal Black Friday
Iain Murray’s op-ed in The American Spectator
>> Best of the Blogs
Barney Frank’s Cognitive Dissonance on Liberties and Risk-Taking
By John Berlau
EPA Waste Water Regulation–What a Waste!
By Jackie Moreau
Farm Bill: Bailouts,Special Interests, and Pheasants
By Daniel Rivera Greenwood
Do Biofuel Mandates and Subsidies Imperil Food Security?
By Marlo Lewis
>> CEI Podcast
December 1, 2011: The More Numerous the Laws
The Roman historian Tacitus wrote that “Laws were most numerous when the state was most corrupt.” Today, the U.S. Code is over 47,000 pages long. The Code of Federal Regulations runs over 165,000 pages. Matt Patterson, CEI’s 2011-12 Warren Brookes Fellow, applies Tacitus’ insight to U.S. politics and discusses what it will take for substantive reforms to become politically possible.