Citations

• 02/18/2014

Meanwhile, Obama seems bent on doing all he can to strangle the economy, raise prices and kill jobs. He’s driven the national debt to World…

• By: Myron Ebell
• 02/18/2014

Podesta’s group also belittled government watchdogs’ calls for more Obama administration transparency regarding IRS officials targeting Tea Party groups, State Department officials failing to disclose…

• By: John Berlau
• 02/16/2014

“They want input from liberal activists and Democratic partisans without public scrutiny,” said Competitive Enterprise Institute official John Berlau, who last year represented a Mississippi…

• By: Hans Bader
• 02/15/2014

“Racial discrimination in school discipline is a real problem today,” Duncan claimed in announcing the new policy. But chances are he outsourced this “solution.” “I…

• By: Myron Ebell
• 02/13/2014

“So this is just the latest example of President Obama’s contempt for obeying the Constitution and our laws,” Myron Ebell, director of the Center of…

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 02/13/2014

Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute who helped expose the email scandal, said the inspector general’s investigation was flawed because auditors…

• By: Hans Bader
• 02/12/2014

Their suit, which alleged there are no effective checks and balances in the law, also took issue with the CFPB, which was created by the…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 02/11/2014

Schumer and Hari “appear to have it backward,” said Wayne Crews, vice president for policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and a former FDA economist.

• By: Marc Scribner
• 02/11/2014

Although surveys show widespread support for making smartphone users let their fingers do the talking, there are some opponents. Mark Scribner of the Competitive Enterprise…

• By: John Berlau
• 02/08/2014

 One such letter was submitted by the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s John Berlau, and the letter was summarized in a recent release. "Every day on the…

• By: Marc Scribner
• 02/06/2014

"I think the biggest challenges related to the security systems necessary to protect the data that's being shared, and a related challenge to that is…

• By: Hans Bader
• 02/04/2014

Economist Doug Holtz-Eakin, who heads the conservative American Action Forum and has been warning for years about the law’s ill-effects isn’t surprised. He e-mails, “The…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/04/2014

"Don't expect these zones to achieve much," said Iain Murray, vice president…

• By: Hans Bader
• 02/03/2014

Two marriage penalties enshrined in Obamacare are proof of the government’s continued efforts to erode traditional marriage. Consider this: the Affordable Care Act requires…

• By: Fran Smith
• 02/01/2014

“The farm bill continues the command-and-control sugar policy—with its domestic production…

• By: Myron Ebell
• 01/31/2014

“Since the Republicans won control of the House in the 2010 elections, [Podesta] has criticized the Obama White House for wasting time on legislation that…

• By: Hans Bader
• 01/30/2014

Hans Bader and others have argued that in some parts of the country, the increased wage could conflict with another statute, the Service Contract Act,…

• By: Hans Bader
• 01/28/2014

Thus, any federal panel or lower court would have to uphold the 1996 decision, said Hans Bader, senior attorney for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a…

• By: Myron Ebell
• 01/27/2014

“Gore’s agenda for saving the world from global warming has always included population control,” Myron Ebell, director of global warming and international environmental policy at…

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/24/2014

“People respond to incentives,” said Ryan Young, a regulatory studies fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “Unemployment benefits reduce one’s incentive to look for a…

• By: William Yeatman
• 01/22/2014

Much of the current energy policy debate pivots on the validity of climate science and the tension between environmental and economic priorities. William Yeatman, an…

• By: Sam Kazman
• 01/15/2014

"This decision guts the choice made by a majority of the…

• By: Sam Kazman
• 01/15/2014

“The court’s ruling today delivers a major blow to the states that chose not to participate in the Obamacare insurance exchange program,” said Sam Kazman,…

• By: Sam Kazman
• 01/15/2014

Small business owners in six states that don't run their own exchanges filed the lawsuit. They plan to appeal Friedman's ruling, said their attorney, Sam…

• By: Sam Kazman
• 01/15/2014

"The court [ruled with the government] despite its own finding that our arguments…

• By: Sam Kazman
• 01/15/2014

Sam Kazman, general counsel for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said he planned to appeal the judge’s ruling. “The court’s ruling today delivers a major blow…

• By: Sam Kazman
• 01/15/2014

Sam Kazman, general counsel for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said in a statement that the ruling "delivers a major blow to the states that chose…

• By: Sam Kazman
• 01/15/2014

Sam Kazman, general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian advocacy group that is coordinating and helping finance the lawsuit, said the plaintiffs would…

• By: Sam Kazman
• 01/15/2014

“In upholding this IRS regulation that is contrary to the law enacted by Congress, this decision guts the choice made by a majority of the…

• 01/14/2014

The Institute for Energy Research has estimated that this “regulatory assault” will eliminate 35 gig watts of electrical generating capacity…10% of all U.S. power. As…

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 01/13/2014

Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute who helped expose the email scandal, said the inspector general’s investigation was flawed because auditors…

• By: Lawson Bader
• 01/11/2014

Lawson Bader, president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, doesn't disagree that the U.S. economy is performing at a subpar level. But he said Reich's answers…

• By: Hans Bader
• 01/09/2014

“Eventually, you’ll have disorder in schools. … They either suspend white students for relatively trivial things or they don’t punish black…

• By: William Yeatman
• 12/10/2013

  REHM 10:20:30 Here in the studio with me, Dina Cappiello of The Associated Press and William Yeatman of the Competitive Enterprise…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 11/29/2013

• By: John Berlau
• 11/21/2013

Others took issue with the CFPB’s novel tactics. “The CFPB really ambushed the tribes,” said John Berlau, an economist at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “They…

• By: CEI Staff
• 11/19/2013

Think for a moment about this staggering number: 1.8 trillion. That’s the annual cost in dollars of regulations, or $14,768 for every household, according to…