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Coalition Letter Urges House Judiciary Committee to Consider Implications of SOPA

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 12/15/2011

Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute, TechFreedom, Americans…

Free Speech

Letters

Coalition Letter Opposing $730,000 Conforming Loan Limits: Fannie-Freddie Subsidies for McMansions

  • By: John Berlau
  • 11/16/2011

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has signed a coalition letter with other individuals and public policy organizations opposing the expansion of government-backed mortgages for wealthy home-buyers.

Banking and Finance

Letters

Coalition Letter on Sarbanes-Oxley

  • By: John Berlau
  • 10/27/2011

Full Document Available in PDF Now that the Senate has defeated the so-called American Jobs Bill, which…

Banking and Finance

Letters

Coalition Letter on Agriculture Spending

  • By: Fran Smith
  • 10/25/2011

Full Document Available in PDF The Competiitive Enterprise Institute signed a…

Business and Government

Letters

EPA Filing by ActionAid USA, CEI Targets Ethanol Fuel Programs

  • By: Sam Kazman
  • 10/13/2011

In anticipation of World Food Day, October 16, 2011, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and ActionAid USA today filed a formal complaint with the Environmental…

Climate

Letters

Coalition Letter on D.C. Taxicab Medallion Bill

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 09/21/2011

Full Document Available in PDF Dear Members of the Council of the District of…

Automobiles and Roads

Letters

Coalition Letter to US Senate on REAL ID Act

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 08/08/2011

We, the undersigned organizations, representing millions of Americans urge you not to support the so-called “REAL ID Act”, whether attached to the emergency supplemental spending…

Tech and Telecom

Letters

Comments on Workshop to Modify the Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program (VRGGP)

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 08/05/2011

Many thanks to you and your colleagues for conducting an informative workshop on the Bush Administration’s proposal to modify the Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases…

Energy and Environment

Letters

Comments on General Guidelines for Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Reporting

  • 08/05/2011

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Department of Energy’s (DOE) proposed rule, General Guidelines for Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Reporting, published December 5,…

Energy and Environment

Letters

Letter to Senate Committee on C.S.T. on Cable Prices and the Consumer Price Index

  • By: Solveig Singleton
  • 08/04/2011

We write to share with you our analysis of the idea of a la carte regulation of cable television channels, in which you have shown…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Letters

Letter on Voluntary Reporting Comments

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 08/02/2011

I am writing on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a non-profit free-market public policy group based in Washington, D.C. This letter responds to…

Regulatory Reform

Letters

Petition for Administrative Reconsideration of “Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products: Clothes Washer Energy Conservation Standards”

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 08/02/2011

The undersigned organizations represent a broad cross-section of consumer advocacy and other public interest organizations, and respectfully petition the Department of Energy (DOE)…

Energy and Environment

Letters

Letter to Assistant AG on Microsoft Settlement

  • By: James V. DeLong
  • 08/02/2011

The staff of the Antitrust Division has designated a limited set of comments on the proposed settlement as “major.” It plans to engage in special…

Antitrust

Letters

Coalition Letter on Data Retention Bill

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 07/27/2011

Full Document Available in PDF Dear Chairman Smith and Ranking Member Conyers: As public interest groups dedicated to free enterprise and constitutionally…

Letters

CEI Joins Coalition in Support of the Wireless Tax Fairness Act

  • 07/14/2011

Full Document Available as PDF CEI has signed a letter along with a coalition of other…

Regulatory Reform

Letters

Coalition Letters Opposing E-Verify Mandate

  • By: Alex Nowrasteh
  • 06/30/2011

CEI has signed coalition letters to both the Senate and the House of Representatives opposing H.R. 2164, which would mandate the use of the bureaucratic…

Labor and Employment

Letters

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

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