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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

Letters

Opposition to the Fingerprint Registry in Senate Housing legislation

  • By: John Berlau
  • 06/24/2008

Dear Senators Reid and McConnell: We are diverse organizations, but we hold in common a deep commitment to privacy rights, civil liberties and the…

Banking and Finance

Letters

Letter to Congress on the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act

  • By: Eli Lehrer, Michelle Minton
  • 06/24/2008

Eli Lehrer and Michelle Minton join Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, to oppose new gaming regulation.

Consumer Freedom

Letters

Open letter to Congress on Dodd-Frank mortgage housing bill

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 06/17/2008

Open letter to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives As groups representing millions of taxpayers nationwide, we are writing to respectfully urge you to…

Law and Litigation

Letters

Joint Letter to President Bush on Climate Policy

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 04/16/2008

CEI spearheads coalition of over 20 organizations urging President Bush not to give in to political extortion on climate policy.

Climate

Letters

Letter to Sen. Feinstein on CO2 and the Clean Air Act

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 02/20/2008

February 20, 2008 The Honorable Dianne Feinstein 331 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Senator Feinstein:…

Letters

Letter to President Bush on CO2 Endangerment Proceeding

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/17/2007

  Full Document Available in PDF The Honorable George W. Bush…

Climate

Letters

Opposition to “Must Carry” Rules for Cable Operators

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/13/2007

Full Document Available in PDF Dear Commissioners: The undersigned organizations wish to reiterate their…

Telecommunications

Letters

Open Letter to House Regarding Mortgage Bailouts and Regulation

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 10/25/2007

Dear Representative: The news has been filled of late with stories of heartbreak in the sub-prime mortgage market and calls have grown louder for…

Business and Government

Letters

Open Letter to Senate Regarding Mortgage Bailouts and Regulation

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 10/25/2007

Dear Senator: The news has been filled of late with stories of heartbreak in the sub-prime mortgage market and calls have grown louder for the…

Business and Government

Letters

Letter to Congress in Support of Optional Federal Chartering

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 10/16/2007

Dear Member: I’m writing to you in response to a letter that the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (the Big “I”) recently…

Insurance

Letters

Opposition Letter to Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) – DRAFT

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 10/04/2007

  The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is currently considering ratification of the United Nations treaty on the Law of the Sea. This treaty has dangerous…

Lands and Wildlife

Letters

Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act

  • By: Sam Kazman
  • 10/02/2007

Full Document Available in PDFs Dear Representative: We are writing to express our concerns…

Consumer Freedom

Letters

Letter in Opposition to Price Controls on Special Access Services

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 10/02/2007

Full Document Available in PDF Dear FCC Chairman & Commissioners: …

Telecommunications

Letters

Principles for Windstorm Insurance: A Joint Statement

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 09/26/2007

The United States has entered a period of heavy hurricane activity. Much of the focus in the public policy debate has centered on insurance against…

Insurance

Letters

Request that Congress Promptly Extend the Internet Tax Freedom Act

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 09/17/2007

Full Document Available in PDF Dear Member of Congress: On behalf…

Business and Government

Letters

A Joint Letter to the U. S. House of Representatives on H. R. 6 and Other Legislation to Raise Energy Prices

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 07/30/2007

  A Joint Letter to the U. S. House of Representatives on H. R. 6 and Other Legislation to Raise Energy Prices Washington,…

Energy

Letters

Letter to Members of the House Agriculture Committee Regarding the 2007 Farm Bill

  • By: Fran Smith
  • 07/17/2007

  To: Members of the House Agriculture Committee  We, as representatives of consumer, taxpayer, public policy, and humanitarian groups, are writing to express…

Energy and Environment

Letters

A Letter Urging Congress to Reject Capital Gains Tax Hikes

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 07/16/2007

Dear Representative, On behalf of the millions of grassroots investors who are members of our organizations, we strongly urge you to reject any increase…

Business and Government

Letters

A Joint Letter to the U. S. Senate on S. 1419, the Making Energy Less Affordable Act

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/15/2007

  Washington, D. C. 14th June 2007 Dear Senator: The undersigned organizations are writing to share our concerns about S. 1419,…

Business and Government

Letters

We oppose negotiations on Medicare Part D drug prices

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 01/10/2007

We are deeply concerned about proposed legislation that would lead to negotiation of pharmaceutical prices by the federal government for the new Medicare Part…

Antitrust

Letters

Joint Letter in Support of OCS Bill

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 06/29/2006

Full Document Available in PDF June 28, 2006 Dear Member of Congress: Rising energy costs…

Energy and Environment

Letters

“Net Neutrality” Is Bad for the Internet

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 06/14/2006

Full Document Available in PDF Big government, pro-regulation groups like MoveOn.org want the…

Antitrust

Letters

Letter to the FCC regarding “must carry” laws for cable operators

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 06/13/2006

Full Document Available in PDF The undersigned organizations would…

Business and Government

Letters

Letter to Congress in Support of Sugar Reform Amendment

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 05/16/2006

Full Document Available in PDF…

Antitrust

Letters

70% of Americans Say They Don’t Want the Government to Prepare Taxes for Them

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 05/04/2006

Full Document Available in PDF Reps. Melissa Hart and Anna Eshoo have introduced H.R. 5114, the Tax Return Choice Act of 2006,…

Antitrust

Letters

Letter on the Potentially Detrimental Effects of Net Neutrality Legislation

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 04/07/2006

Full Document Available in PDF Dear Chairman Barton: As…

Business and Government

Letters

A Joint Letter on Climate Policy to Chairman Domenici and Senator Bingaman

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 04/04/2006

Washington, D. C. 4th April 2006 Hon. Pete V. Domenici Chairman and Hon. Jeff Bingaman Ranking Minority Member Committee…

Business and Government

Letters

Joint Letter to House and Senate Leadership on Opening ANWR to Energy Exploration

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 03/08/2006

Rep. Dennis Hastert Sen. Bill Frist Rep. John Boehner Washington, D. C. March 8, 2006   Dear Mr. Speaker/Mr.

Energy and Environment

Letters

ESA Coalition Letter to Senator James M. Inhofe

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 02/27/2006

Full Document Available in PDF…

Business and Government

Letters

Letter to EPA on Human Volunteer Pesticide Testing

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 01/27/2006

Full Document Available in PDF The use of human volunteers in research studies…

Energy and Environment

Letters

Letter Urging Congress to Introduce Video Competition

  • By: Braden Cox
  • 11/15/2005

The Honorable Bill Frist Majority Leader United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 November 14, 2005 Dear Majority Leader Frist: Earlier this year, Sen. John Ensign…

Business and Government

Letters

Letter to Roger Ailes; President, Fox News Channel

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 11/10/2005

Roger Ailes President Fox News Channel 1211 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY  10036 VIA FACSIMILE  …

Climate

Letters

An Open Letter to Congress: Franchise Reform

  • By: Braden Cox
  • 11/09/2005

Dear Member of Congress: Much has changed in the decade since Congress passed the 1996 Telecommunications Act. As Congress is considering changes and updates…

Antitrust

Letters

Letter to Congress Regarding Digital TV Transition and Cable Multicasting

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/13/2005

The undersigned organizations would like to express their strong opposition to proposals toextend “must carry” rules for cable operators to include the multiple streams of…

Business and Government

Letters

The President’s Tax Panel Should Dump “Static” Revenue-Estimating

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 10/03/2005

A coalition of more than 40 free-market leaders, including The Competitive Enterprise Institute, has asked President Bush to direct the Advisory Panel on Federal…

Insurance

Letters

Stop FCC Unbundling Laws

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 04/01/2004

Full Letter Available in PDF Mr. President, in your recent speech in Albuquerque, you championed “the…

Regulatory Reform

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