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Coalition Letter to the House Judiciary Committee: Rein in the DOJ

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 05/04/2011

Full Document Available in PDF Dear Member,  We are a coalition of consumer advocates and free market organizations,…

Consumer Freedom

Letters

Stop New Authority to D.O.E. Loan Guarantee Program

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 04/14/2011

CEI joins Taxpayers for Common Sense, National Taxpayers Union, George Marshall Institute, and the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center to demand that Appropriations Committee excise Department…

Energy and Environment

Letters

Coalition Letter Urging Congress to Update Privacy Laws

  • By: Nicole Ciandella
  • 04/06/2011

Full Document Available in PDF As public interest groups dedicated to limited, Constitutional…

Privacy and Cybersecurity

Letters

Coalition Letter Against Mandatory Implementation of E-Verify

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 03/10/2011

Full Document Available in PDF We, the undersigned free-market advocacy groups and public interest organizations, write to share our concerns…

Financial Regulation

Letters

Coalition for Competitive Insurance Rates coalition letter on Obama’s FY 2012 Budget

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 02/14/2011

Full Document Available in PDF We are writing to express our concern about a proposal within…

Insurance

Letters

Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures

  • By: John Berlau
  • 12/28/2010

Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the millions of taxpayers represented by our organizations, we write…

Banking and Finance

Letters

Oppose wasteful $10 billion increase for DOE nuclear loan guarantee program in continuing resolution

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 12/13/2010

Full Document Available in PDF…

Energy and Environment

Letters

Coaliton Letter on Credit Union Regulatory Relief

  • By: John Berlau
  • 12/06/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Along with this letter please find a new advertisement, signed…

Business and Government

Letters

Coalition letter: Allow the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit to Expire

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 12/02/2010

Full Document Avalible in PDF A coalition of political groups today urged Congress to scrap energy subsidies by allowing the subsidies to…

Energy

Letters

Coalition Letter Against the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 10/21/2010

  Full Document Available in PDF To Members of the United States Congress:    …

Business and Government

Letters

Fearing Voter Disapproval, Senate Resurrects DISCLOSE Act Ahead of November Elections

  • By: John Berlau
  • 09/22/2010

Full Document Available in PDF We write on behalf of the millions of taxpayers and concerned citizens represented by our respective…

Business and Government

Letters

Letter to House Financial Services Committee

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 07/29/2010

Congress should overturn ban and legalize Internet gambling…

Letters

Groups Call Alcohol Regulation Bill “An Affront to Consumer Freedom”

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 07/27/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Washington, D.C., July 27, 2010 — Today a coalition of nonprofit and consumer groups sent a letter…

Consumer Freedom

Letters

Senate Should Reject Dodd-Frank

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr., John Berlau
  • 07/14/2010

Full Document Available in PDF The so-called financial “reform” legislation, agreed to by House and Senate Democrats in Conference, and…

Business and Government

Letters

Double Taxation Working Group

  • By: John Berlau
  • 07/14/2010

Full Document Available in PDF We are writing to express our appreciation for your efforts to protect Americans from tax increases that…

Business and Government

Letters

No Place for Corporate Welfare in Financial Regulation

  • By: John Berlau
  • 06/17/2010

Full Document Available in PDF As leaders of groups representing millions of Americans that comprise a Center-Right Coalition, we oppose price controls in…

Business and Government

Letters

Coalition Letter Against Durbin Interchange Fee Price Control Amendment to Financial Reform Bill

  • By: John Berlau
  • 06/16/2010

Full Document Available in PDF As leaders of groups representing millions of Americans that comprise a Center-Right Coalition, we oppose price controls in…

Banking and Finance

Letters

DISCLOSE Act Coalition Letter

  • By: John Berlau
  • 06/10/2010

Full Document Available in PDF   We write on behalf of the millions of taxpayers and concerned citizens represented by our respective…

Free Speech

Letters

Murkowski Resolution Coalition Letter

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/19/2010

Full Document Available in PDF To Members of the United States Senate: We urge you to support S. J. Res. 26,…

Business and Government

Letters

Dodd Bill: Bailouts, Taxes, and Overregulation

  • By: John Berlau
  • 04/26/2010

As Congress prepares to vote on debating Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd’s Restoring American Financial Stability Act — and speculation is rampant as to…

Business and Government

Letters

Letter to Barney Frank

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 02/26/2010

 Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a not-for-profit non-partisan educational and research institute dedicated…

Business and Government

Letters

Audit the Fed First

  • By: John Berlau
  • 01/26/2010

Dear Members of the U.S. Senate: In the last two years, the Federal Reserve Board has lent several trillion dollars to banks…

Business and Government

Letters

Coalition Letter on Conrad-Gregg

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/15/2010

Full Letter Available in PDF   CFA and ATR have joined forces with numerous groups representing…

Tech and Telecom

Letters

Federal Reserve Transparency Working Group Sends Letter to the Senate

  • By: John Berlau
  • 12/03/2009

Dear Members of the U.S. Senate: In the last two years, the Federal Reserve Board has lent several trillion dollars to banks…

Business and Government

Letters

Statement of Marlo Lewis on S. 1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 10/29/2009

Full Testimony Available in PDF Increasingly, proponents of cap-and-trade legislation argue that climate change is a major threat to U.S.

Business and Government

Letters

Iain Murray’s Testimony at the Legislative Hearing on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 10/29/2009

Murray will testify in the Senate today, Oct. 29th, at 1 o'clock this afternoon.

Business and Government

Letters

Coalition Letter to Frank and Bachus Regarding Federal Insurance Reform

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 10/27/2009

Full Letter Available in PDF Today, you’ll consider a manager’s amendment that would change the scope and reach of H.R. 2609, The Federal…

Insurance

Letters

Coalition Letter to President

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 10/19/2009

Full Document in PDF We represent a diverse group of environmental, taxpayer, and consumer interests. We've seen the letter that Rep. Gene Taylor…

Insurance

Letters

Letter to RiskMetrics Group

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 10/06/2009

My name is Eli Lehrer and I’m Director of the Center for Risk, Regulation, and Markets at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. As an organization,…

Insurance

Letters

CEI to Florida Legislature: Despite Politicians’ Claims, Insurers Continue to Flee the State

  • By: Christian R. Camara
  • 09/10/2009

Dear Senator, Attached you will find five editorials that have been published in recent weeks by newspapers around the state.  These editorials were…

Insurance

Letters

Let Credit Unions Lend to Small Businesses

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 09/01/2009

Full Letter Available in Word   Today’s difficult economic situation stems, in large part, from a shortage of credit. Banks, thrifts and other…

Banking and Finance

Letters

Coalition Letter on Optional Federal Chartering

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 07/23/2009

Full Letter Available in Word As Congress moves towards a debate over sweeping reform of the nation’s financial regulations, we urge you to…

Insurance

Letters

Coalition Letter on TARP Transparency

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 07/16/2009

Full Document Avalible in PDF On behalf of the millions of taxpayers represented by our respective organizations, we write to urge your support…

Business and Government

Letters

Lehrer Response Letter to Federal Insurance Regulation Not a Panacea

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 05/19/2009

Full Document Available in PDF To: Congressional Staff and Members From: Eli…

Business and Government

Letters

Letter to New York State Insurance Superintendent Eric Dinallo

  • By: Eli Lehrer, Hans Bader
  • 04/20/2009

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Insurance

Letters

Free Market Coalition Letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson on EPA’s Endangerment Finding

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/15/2009

Why EPA's upcoming endangerment finding is a disaster waiting to happen.

Climate

Letters

Letter to Senators Dodd and Shelby, and Congressmen Frank and Bachus regarding National Regulatory Modernization

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 04/09/2009

Full Document Available in PDF  This letter written to Senators Dodd and Shelby, and…

Business and Government

Letters

Bipartisan Civil Liberties Coalition Letter Against New Federal Crimes in Omnibus Land Managment Bill

  • By: John Berlau
  • 03/24/2009

Dear Speaker Pelosi, and Minority Leader Boehner, Our respective organizations have diverse viewpoints, but we share a deep and abiding belief in due…

Energy and Environment

Letters

The Calculation of Climate Change Risk in the Provision of Insurance

  • By: Eli Lehrer, Iain Murray, Michelle Minton
  • 03/06/2009

Full Document Available in PDF   It is obvious to anybody that a risk of climate change exists: weather patterns…

Insurance

Letters

Proposed Taxes on Reinsurance Will Hurt Consumers

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 03/03/2009

Full Document Available in PDF Additional taxes on reinsurance transactions would wreak havoc with…

Insurance

Letters

Coalition Opposes Proposed Taxes for Affiliated Reinsurance

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 02/11/2009

Full Document Available in PDF The Honorable Max Baucus Chairman Senate Finance Committee 219 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, D.C.

Insurance

Letters

Oppose the Federal Stimulus Bill

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/04/2009

We the undersigned public interest organizations, representing millions of members and supporters nationwide, hereby call upon you to reject the $819 billion spending bill that…

Business and Government

Letters

No Midnight Rulemaking

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 02/04/2009

Full Document Avalible in PDF Chairman Steve Cohen 1004 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515 February 3, 2009 Dear Chairman Cohen:…

Business and Government

Letters

Requesting a TARP Disapproval Resolution

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 01/15/2009

Full Document Available in PDF United States Congress Washington, DC 20515 Dear Member of Congress: On behalf…

Business and Government

Letters

Letter To President Obama on Credit Unions and Business Lending

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 12/23/2008

Full Document Available in PDF December 23, 2008 The Honorable Barack Obama President-Elect…

Business and Government

Letters

Response to AFSNCP Letter Supporting Mitigation in Stimulus Package

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 12/19/2008

Full Document Avalible in PDF December 18, 2008 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House H-232 Capitol…

Insurance

Letters

Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2008

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 11/11/2008

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently announced his plans to call back the Senate for a lame duck session to pass a massive land grab…

Energy and Environment

Letters

Letter to President Bush on Midnight Regulations

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 10/31/2008

October 31, 2008 The Honorable George W. Bush President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr.

Business and Government

Letters

Coalition Letter on the Finalization of Rules Relating to UIGEA

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 10/23/2008

Full Document Avalible in PDF Dear Ms. Dudley: We are deeply concerned about the regulations you have received from Treasury concerning the…

Consumer Freedom

Letters

Letter On UIGEA to House Financial Services Committee Members

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 09/15/2008

Attention: House Financial Services Committee LA September 15, 2008 Dear Representative: As the House Financial Services Committee moves towards consideration of…

Consumer Freedom

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