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21 Limited-Government Organizations Agree: House Should Repeal Dangerous IPAB
Full Document Available in PDF We, the undersigned organizations, representing millions of Americans who seek limited government and economic freedom, urge you…
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Official Time Labor Coalition Letter
Government labor unions have long been able to conduct union business while on the job and on the taxpayer dime, under a little-known policy called…
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Dodd-Frank Second Amended Complaint
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Marlo Lewis – 2017 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards
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Michael Mann v. National Review, CEI, et al: CEI and Rand Simberg’s Reply to Mann’s Opposition to our Anti-SLAPP Motion
Michael Mann v. National Review, CEI, et al: CEI and Rand Simberg’s Reply to Mann’s Opposition to our Anti-SLAPP Motion…
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Letter to Congress on Nomination of Richard Cordray to the CFPB
CEI and the 60 Plus Association sent a letter urging Congress to take time to consider the re-nomination of Richard Cordray to the CFPB, in…
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Michael Mann. v. National Review, CEI, et al: Plaintiff’s Opposition to CEI and National Review’s Anti-SLAPP and Dismissal Motions
Michael Mann. v. National Review, CEI, et al: Plaintiff’s Opposition to CEI and National Review’s Anti-SLAPP and Dismissal Motions See also: CEI SLAPPS Back…
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Michael Mann. v. National Review, CEI, et al: CEI and Rand Simberg’s 12(b)(6) Motion to Dismiss For Failure to State a Claim
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Michael Mann v. National Review, CEI, et al.: CEI and Rand Simberg’s Special Motion to Dismiss Under the D.C. Anti-SLAPP Act
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Free-Market Coalition Letter Against TAG’s Unlimited Deposit Insurance
As the Senate prepares today to vote on extending unlimited deposit insurance for non-interest bank accounts, 14 leaders and scholars of conservative and free-market groups signed a…
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Coalition Letter: Taxpayers Won’t Harvest Farm Bill Savings
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Coalition Letter on the Fiscal Cliff and the Taxpayer Protection Pledge
Full Document Available in PDF Dear Republican Members of Congress, We, the undersigned organizations, who represent millions of Americans dedicated to fiscal…
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Dodd Frank Challenge – Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss
Full Document Available in PDF This lawsuit cobbles together an array of disparate challenges to the constitutionality of three titles of an…
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Coalition Letter on Unintended Consequences of Basel III
Full Document Available in PDF The undersigned organizations, institutions and nonprofits interested in fostering entrepreneurship represent hundreds of thousands businesses, small and…
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CEI vs. Dept. of Treasury – Complaint Re: FOIA Requests
Full Document Available in PDF This lawsuit seeks to compel Treasury to respond fully and completely to two FOIA requests dated August…
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Letter Opposing Misnamed ‘Taxpayer Protection Act’: Another Beach House Bailout
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the millions of citizens represented by the undersigned groups, we write in strong opposition…
Comment
Comment Letter in Support of Renewable Fuel Standard Waiver Petitions
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a non-profit public policy group specializing in regulatory issues,…
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Coalition Letter to FCC on Broadband Tests
Full Document Available in PDF We, the undersigned public interest organizations, write to express our strong concerns regarding the consumer privacy risks…
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CEI v. EPA – Complaint Re: Secret Accounts
Full Document in Available in PDF Plaintiff COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE (“CEI”) for its complaint against Defendant UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (“EPA”or…
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Dodd-Frank Challenge – Amended Complaint
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Comments on National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter
Full Document Available in PDF 1. A Secondary NAAQS for Visibility Either Conflates or Conflicts with the Regional Haze Program; If the…
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Coalition Letter to the U.S. Senate on Tax Competition
Full Document Available in PDF CEI co-signed a coalition letter to the U.S. Senate urging support for Senator Rubio’s S.J.Res. 46, which…
Comment
Testimony on The 10th Anniversary of the Sarbanes- Oxley Act
John Berlau testifies July 26, 2012 before a House Financial Services subcommittee on the topic of the 10th anniversary of Sarbanes-Oxley.
Comment
Testimony on Examining Consumer Credit Access Concerns, New Products and Federal Regulations
CEI’s John Berlau testified before the House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit. Berlau explains why reducing unnecessary regulatory barriers will increase competition for…
Comment
Testimony on “The Marketplace Equity Act of 2011”
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is a non-profit public policy research organization dedicated to advancing individual liberty…
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Brief of Amici Curiae Supporting EPIC’s Petition for Writ of Mandamus (EPIC v. DHS)
In the last half decade, as millions of Americans have undergone AIT screening by the TSA, none have been afforded an opportunity to comment on…
Comment
Testimony on “Mandate Madness: When Sue and Settle Just Isn’t Enough”
Full Document Available in PDF Chairman Lankford, Ranking Member Connolly, Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to testify before…
Comment
Comment Letter on EPA’s Carbon Pollution Standard
CEI's Marlo Lewis' comments submitted to the EPA on the agency's proposed "Carbon Pollution Standard."…
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State National Bank of Big Spring et al. v. Geithner et al.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute and the 60 Plus Association join the State National Bank of Big Spring, Texas, in their lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of…
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Coalition Letter on Consumer Debit Card Protection Act
Full Document Available in PDF To the Members of the United States Congress: You may have seen some recent reports, including in…
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Coalition Letter to Surface Transportation Bill Conferees Supporting Public-Private Partnerships
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CEI Coalition Letter to Surface Transportation Reauthorization Conferees Supporting the Broun Motion to Instruct
Full Document Available in PDF Dear Member of…
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CEI’s CLIP Submits Comments Before the FCC on 700 MHz Interoperability
Full Document Available in PDF The Communications Liberty and Innovation Project submits these comments…
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Coalition Letter to Surface Transportation Bill Conferees
Full Document Available in PDF CEI signed a coalition letter to House…
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Coalition Letter on Cyber Security Act of 2012
Full Document Available in PDF We, the undersigned organizations, write to express our deep concerns with S. 2105, the Cyber…
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Letter on Farm Bill Entitlements
Full Document Available in PDF CEI signed a joint letter advocating real reform of…
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Coalition Letter on the Small Business Lending Enhancement Act
Full Document Available in PDF As conservative, libertarian, and free-market organizations concerned about government regulatory overreach, we’re writing to you to urge…
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Coalition Letter to Minnesota Legislature on MnPASS
Full Document Avilable in PDF Dear Members of the Minnesota House and Senate, Highway congestion during peak traffic times is an ongoing…
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Free Market Coalition Letter on CISPA
Full Document Available in PDF As public interest groups dedicated to free enterprise and limited government, we applaud bipartisan congressional efforts to…
Comment
Testimony on Reauthorization of Water Desalination Act of 2011
Full Document Available in PDF Separation of State and Water Water availability is a core infrastructure concern; today, that specific legislative…
Comment
Reply Comments to FCC Re: Verizon Wireless Application to Acquire Spectrum Licenses
Full Document Available in PDF Executive Summary: The Federal Communications Commission should approve the applications of Verizon Wireless to acquire spectrum licenses…
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Bulldog Investors v. Massachusetts
Full Document Available in PDF Under the regulation at issue here, journalists, academics, students and others who are not wealthy or financially…
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Brief in Coalition for Responsible Regulation et al v. Environmental Protection Agency
Full Document Available in PDF Introduction The suite of rules challenged in these coordinated cases involves what is assuredly the most burdensome,…
Comment
Testimony on Jobs Before House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade
Full Document Available in PDF Chairwoman Bono Mack, Ranking Member Butterfield, and members of thissubcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to present…
Comment
Comment Letter on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Economy Standards
Full Document Available in PDF Re: 2017 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards and Corporate Average Fuel Economy…
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Coalition Letter Urges Congress to Reject Linking Drilling Revenues to the Highway Trust Fund
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute, Reason Foundation, National Taxpayers Union, Taxpayers for Common Sense, and…
Comment
Comments Submitted to U.S.-EU High Level Working Group on Jobs and Growth
Full Document Available in PDF The path to economic growth and prosperity is not something readily planned from above but rather is…
Comment
CEI Submits Comments to EPA Regarding the Agency’s Regional Haze Power Grab
Full Document Available in PDF The “Good Neighbor Provision” of the Clean Air Act requires that each State Implementation Plan…
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Coalition Letter Urges House Judiciary Committee to Consider Implications of SOPA
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute, TechFreedom, Americans…
Comment
CEI Comments to FTC Regarding the Proposed Agreement with Phusion Projects, LLC
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute has…
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Comments of the Competitive Enterprise Institute Regarding Food and Drug Administration and Food Safety Inspection Service Approaches to Reducing Sodium Consumption
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) appreciates the opportunity to submit these comments regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s and Food Safety Inspection Service’s Approaches to…
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Coalition Letter Opposing $730,000 Conforming Loan Limits: Fannie-Freddie Subsidies for McMansions
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.
Comment
Government Plans To Ban E-Cigarettes Opposed by Public Interest Groups
Full Document Available in PDF The Consumer Advocates for Smoke-Free Alternatives and the Competitive Enterprise…
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Coalition Letter on Sarbanes-Oxley
Full Document Available in PDF Now that the Senate has defeated the so-called American Jobs Bill, which…
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Amicus Brief in Cobell v. Salazar
Comment
CEI Comments to the Food and Drug Administration Regarding Medical Device Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute appreciates the opportunity to submit these comments regarding…
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CEI Comments to the Food and Drug Administration Regarding PDUFA Reauthorization
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute appreciates the opportunity to submit these comments regarding…
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Coalition Letter on Agriculture Spending
Full Document Available in PDF The Competiitive Enterprise Institute signed a…
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FOIA Request to White House Office of Science and Technology, John Holdren, Director
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request…
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EPA Filing by ActionAid USA, CEI Targets Ethanol Fuel Programs
In anticipation of World Food Day, October 16, 2011, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and ActionAid USA today filed a formal complaint with the Environmental…
Comment
Marlo Lewis Testimony Before House Oversight & Government Reform Committee on CAFE Standards, EPA Power Grab
Full Document Available in PDF In the aftermath of a deal between the Obama administration…
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Amicus Brief in Sackett v. EPA
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed an amicus brief in September…
Comment
CEI Submits Supplemental Comments on SEC’s Proposed Conflict Minerals Rules
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has submitted supplemental comments regarding Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a provision that would…
Comment
CEI Submits Comments on Conflict Minerals Rules of Dodd-Frank
The Competitive Enterprise has submitted comments regarding the implementation of Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act which attempts to…
Comment
Testimony of William Yeatman Before House Water and Power Subcommittee
Full Document Available in PDF Chairman McClintock, Ranking Member Napolitano, Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to testify before…
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Coalition Letter on D.C. Taxicab Medallion Bill
Full Document Available in PDF Dear Members of the Council of the District of…
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Brief of Amici Curiae Cato Institute, Reason Foundation, and Competitive Enterprise Institute in Support Of Petitioners in Mayo v. Prometheus Labs
Full Document Available in PDF Summary of Argument Prometheus’s patents are…
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Statement of Marlo Lewis On S. 388 Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee, for the opportunity to submit testimony on S. 388, the Climate Change Technology Deployment and Infrastructure…
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Coalition Letter to US Senate on REAL ID Act
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…
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Amicus Brief in Granholm vs Heald
Full Document Available in PDF As interstate commerce has grown, businesses have used a variety of…
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Ben Lieberman Before the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs House Committee
Good morning, Mr. Chairman and members of this subcommittee, and thank you for inviting me to testify. My name is Ben Lieberman and I am…
Comment
Statement of Angela Logomasini Before the House Committee on Government Reform
Good Morning, Mr. Chairman and Members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify. I am Angela Logomasini, Director of Risk and Environmental…
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Request for Reconsideration of Response to Federal Data Quality Act Petition Against Further Dissemination of ‘Climate Action Report 2002’”
Full Document Avalible in PDF Pursuant to the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s pending Request for Reconsideration of EPA’s Response to CEI’s Federal Data…
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Comments to DOT in the matter of Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), 67 Fed. Reg. 69366
Full Document Available in PDF…
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Comments on Workshop to Modify the Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program (VRGGP)
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…
Comment
Request for comment on the Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program,
On February 14, 2002, President Bush directed the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with other department and agency heads, to propose improvements in the 1605(b)…
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Comments on General Guidelines for Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Reporting
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,…
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Letter to Senate Committee on C.S.T. on Cable Prices and the Consumer Price Index
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…
Comment
Written Submission Of the Competitive Enterprise Institute Regarding the Telecom & High Tech Manufacturing Sector
Full Document Available in PDF Commerce Secretary…
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Comments Regarding the DoE’s Fiscal Year 2004 Priorities for Appliance Standards
Full Document Available in PDF Since its enactment in 1987, the…
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Complaint for Declarative Relief versus John Marburger
Full Document Available in PDF This is an action seeking to apply the Federal Data Quality…
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Specific Comments on Menendez Climate Change Amendment Findings
Finding (1) Evidence continues to build that increases in atmospheric concentrations of man-made greenhouse gases are contributing to global climate change. This statement is pure…
Comment
Response to Citizen Petition Requesting Certain Prescription Allergy Medication be OTC
Commenters believe that the FDCA, read as an integrated whole, generally leaves the determination whether prescription drug or OTC drug labeling should be proposed for…
Comment
Request for Correction of Information: Petition to Cease Dissemination of the National Assessment on Climate Change
Consistent with and following upon CEI’s 3 June 2002 “Comments on Commerce’s Proposed Data Quality Guidelines”, we request “correction” of NACC’s fatal data flaws which,…
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Comments on NOAA/USCCSP’s “Strategic Plan for the Climate Science Program”
CCSP’s document asserts “sound science” principles once presumed in endeavors such as this, though grossly abused in recent years, most egregiously in the “National Assessment…
Comment
Petition to Cease Dissemination of the National Assessment on Climate Change
This document follows and incorporates by reference: 1) the information presented the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in Competitive Enterprise Institute…
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Amicus Brief in NRDC vs Spencer Abraham
Full Document Avalible in PDF Petitioners’ challenge is primarily a procedural one, asserting that DOE cannot issue a rule for SEER 12…
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Joint Brief of Petitioners and Petitioner-Intervenors in Nebraska vs EPA
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Memorandum Opinion in Association of Physicians and Surgeons vs US FDA
Comment
Comments Regarding the Constitutionality of FDA Treatment of Product Information
This request for comments represents a welcome departure from FDA’s prior treatment of First Amendment concerns in the context of product advertising, labeling, and promotions.
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Motion for Leave to File Brief Amicus Curiae and Brief Amicus Curiae in Karen Howsham vs Dean Witter Reynolds
Full Document Avalible in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) respectfully moves this Court for leave to file the accompanying brief amicus…
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Letter on Voluntary Reporting Comments
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…
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Petition for Administrative Reconsideration of “Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products: Clothes Washer Energy Conservation Standards”
The undersigned organizations represent a broad cross-section of consumer advocacy and other public interest organizations, and respectfully petition the Department of Energy (DOE)…
Comment
Comments on the ATF Proposed Rule Regarding Health Claims in Labeling Alcohol Beverages
ATF’s notice of proposed rulemaking seeks to prohibit what it deems misleading statements about the health benefits of alcohol consumption from appearing on alcoholic beverage…
Comment
Comments on Draft Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulation
SUMMARY OF CEI COMMENTS: CEI’s comments cover the following four areas. Consumers’ Right to Know: CEI has long advocated the consumer’s “Regulatory Right to Know.”…
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Amicus Brief on Writ of Certiorari in Trans Union vs. Federal Trade Commission
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Comments on Telemarketing Rulemaking Comment Before the FTC
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has several concerns about the FTC’s proposal to create a Do Not Call registry. Part I outlines existing Do Not Call…
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Letter to Assistant AG on Microsoft Settlement
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…
Comment
CEI Replies to the National Industrial Transportation League’s Petition for Rulemaking to Adopt Revised Competitive Switching Rules
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of…
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Comments on the EPA Proposed Response to Remand Regarding National Ambient Air Quality Standard for Ozone
In 1999, the United States Court of Appeals struck down the new ozone NAAQS. Among other things, the Court faulted the agency for failing to…