Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/14/2007

Issues in the News 1. TRADE Congress votes to attach labor provisions to new trade agreements. CEI Expert…

Business and Government

• CEI Staff
• 05/09/2007

<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., May 9, 2007—Today’s House hearing on high gas prices manages to present a vitally…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/09/2007

Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming holds a hearing on high gas prices.

Business and Government

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 05/07/2007

The Recording Industry Association of America has sent out waves of letters telling college administrators that some of their students are pirates. No, not…

Business and Government

• CEI Staff
• 05/07/2007

<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., May 7, 2007—New findings by Consumer Reports on washing machines demonstrate that their performance…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/07/2007

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Issues in the News   1. MEDIA…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/01/2007

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Issues in the News   1. ENERGY Consumers nationwide…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/30/2007

1. ENERGY Environmentally-correct “compact fluorescent” light bulbs face an unfriendly reception from consumers. CEI Expert Available…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/25/2007

Issues in the News 1. HEALTH First Lady Laura Bush delivers remarks in the White House Rose Garden for Malaria Awareness Day .

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/24/2007

Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS The Small Business Administration celebrates “ National Small Business Week ” in Washington , D.C. . CEI…

Business and Government

• Christine Hall
• 04/20/2007

Washington, DC, April 20, 2007— “With bipartisan concern about so many issues — such as the onerous mandates of Sarbanes-Oxley — it's…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/19/2007

Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY The Senate Commerce Committee holds a hearing on the proposed merger of XM and Sirius Satellite…

Business and Government

• CEI Staff
• 04/17/2007

Contact: Christine Hall, 202-331-2258 Washington, D.C., April 17, 2007—Today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal law, not state law, controls regulation of mortgage lending…

Business and Government

• CEI Staff
• 04/17/2007

Contact:     Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273   Washington, D.C., April 17, 2007—Today, as the…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/17/2007

Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Parents in the UK object to the government's plan to distribute copies of Al Gore's…

Business and Government

• CEI Staff
• 04/16/2007

Contact: Richard Morrison, 202-331-2273 Washington, D.C., April 16, 2007—The poorest countries of the world should have duty-free, quota-free access to rich countries’ markets, stated…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/13/2007

Issues in the News <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />  1. HEALTH A federal advisory…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/12/2007

Issues in the News<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />   1. TECHNOLOGY Researchers…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/11/2007

1. ENVIRONMENT Al Gore is forced to move his global warming-themed “Live Earth” concert from Washington, D.C. to New Jersey.

Business and Government

• Christine Hall
• 04/10/2007

Contact: Christine Hall, 202.331.2258 Washington, D.C., April 10, 2007— America has a deeply troubled auto and homeowners’ insurance system, but a forthcoming bill…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/05/2007

1. ENVIRONMENT The United Nations prepares to officially release its latest report on the predicted effects of global warming. CEI Experts Available to Comment: Senior…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/03/2007

Issues in the News   1. LEGAL The U.S. Supreme Court rules against the EPA’s decision not to regulate carbon dioxide…

Antitrust

• By: Christine Hall
• 03/27/2007

Issues in the News   1.  INSURANCE A major insurer announced this week it will offer a homeowners’ insurance product for customers living in…

Business and Government

• CEI Staff
• 03/21/2007

District Court order and opinion available for download…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/21/2007

Issues in the News   1. CONGRESS Al Gore testifies before committees in both the House and Senate…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/20/2007

Issues in the News   1. HEALTH A new breed of genetically modified mosquitoes may help fight the…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/19/2007

Issues in the News   1. CONGRESS Al Gore prepares for dual testimony appearances this week before the House…

Business and Government

• By: Achim Schmillen
• 03/14/2007

Do you remember every Web site you visited, every email you sent, and every word you Googled during the last two years? Probably…

Business and Government

• By: Jeremy Lott
• 03/05/2007

Washington – Lines to see speeches at this year's CPAC were as long as the wait for Disneyland's Magic Mountain ride at the…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/05/2007

Issues in the News   1. GLOBAL WARMING The UK’s Channel 4 prepares to air The Great Global…

Business and Government

• CEI Staff
• 03/04/2007

Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 The following may be attributed to Wayne Crews, CEI's vice president for policy and director of…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/02/2007

Issues in the News   1. CONGRESS The House of Representatives approves changes to union organizing rules. CEI Expert Available to…

Antitrust

• By: Dominik Saran
• 02/27/2007

The battle over Internet freedom is heating up again. The spark this time is the proposed Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2007, recently…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/27/2007

Tuesday, February 27, 2007   Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS Wal-Mart plans a large-scale expansion into…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/22/2007

Issues in the News   1. HOMELAND SECURITY Federal regulators announce new plans for safeguarding chemical plants from terrorist…

Business and Government

• By: Jeremy Lott
• 02/21/2007

  Item (a): Officials in Prince George’s County, Maryland, have proposed cracking down on truancy by strapping ankle bracelets on…

Business and Government

• By: Jeremy Lott
• 02/19/2007

On Tuesday, Sept. 9, 1919, Boston policemen voted to strike. They wanted to unionize; management wouldn't allow it. That evening more than 1,100…

Business and Government

• By: CEI Staff, Richard Morrison
• 02/13/2007

Issues in the News   1. CONGRESS The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee holds a hearing on a…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/12/2007

Issues in the News   1. ENERGY Wisconsin’s governor proposes a special tax on oil companies amounting to over…

Business and Government

• CEI Staff
• 02/11/2007

Washington, D.C., February 12, 2007— The president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Fred L. Smith, Jr., will testify tomorrow before the Senate Environment…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/09/2007

Issues in the News   1. ENVIRONMENT Virgin Atlantic chief Richard Branson offers a $25 million prize for the…

Business and Government

• By: Steven J. Milloy
• 02/07/2007

Will 2007 be the year that the U.S. signs up for global warming regulation? After looking at the five climate bills being considered so far…

Business and Government

• CEI Staff
• 02/07/2007

     <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Contact: Christine Hall, 202.331.2258   Washington,…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/06/2007

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Issues in the News   1.

Business and Government

• By: Christine Hall
• 02/05/2007

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Issues in the News   1.  ENVIRONMENT…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/02/2007

Issues in the News   1. CONGRESS ExxonMobil’s record profits prompt calls for a windfall profits tax on the…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/01/2007

Issues in the News   1. CONGRESS “Politicians love the minimum wage. It is a perfect issue on which to demagogue, since…

Business and Government

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 01/31/2007

Last month, Labor Watch looked at the proposal to raise the federal minimum wage—a key item in the Democrats’ agenda for Congress. In this…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 01/31/2007

Some say online virtual reality operations like “Second Life” have attained the stage of evolution that blogging and the Internet itself occupied several years…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/31/2007

Issues in the News   1. ENERGY Thousands gather in Mexico City to protest steeply rising prices for…

Business and Government