Compact Fluorescents, Toyota, and Health Care
USA Today quotes Policy Analyst Michelle Minton saying that CEI will be celebrating the development of the compact fluorescent lightbulb.
Members of Congress interrogate Toyota Sales CEO James Lentz.
The New York Times editorializes on the legal challenges to the health care bill.
1. ENVIRONMENT
USA Today quotes Policy Analyst Michelle Minton saying that CEI will be celebrating the development of the compact fluorescent lightbulb.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President for Strategy Iain Murray on why Michelle was slightly misquoted and what the pros and cons of the compact fluorescent are.
“Perhaps most important, however, is the fact that the CFL has become a symbol of a drive to ban technologies. The cellphone is imperfect too, but no-one is using it as a symbol to drive a ban on landlines. Such bans also create tangents in market technologies (for instance, no incandescent lightbulbs means no more Easybake ovens).”
2. TRANSPORTATION
Members of Congress interrogate Toyota Sales CEO James Lentz.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Scholar Michael Fumento on the interrogation.
“And I couldn’t believe my ears as Rep. Jerry McNerney essentially openly blackmailed Lentz regarding a plant in his district that had been co-owned by GM and Toyota, but GM pulled out. ‘You’re having a public relations nightmare right now,’ McNerney told Lentz. ‘If you work with us to keep that open, it will be a real plus for your public relations issues.’”
3. HEALTH
The New York Times editorializes on the legal challenges to the health care bill.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Research Associate Jonathan Moore on why State Attorneys General filing suit have a good case.
“Many prominent constitutional scholars agree with state legislatures that an individual mandate for health insurance would exceed the power given to the federal government in the Constitution. For instance, Heritage Foundation legal scholars and well-known legal scholar Randy Barnett (who was a lead attorney in the Gonzales v. Raich case before the Supreme Court in 2005), have argued that the individual mandate is not only an unprecedented (few would debate this), but also an unconstitutional exercise of federal power.”