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Comments on “Charting the Course for Ocean Science” submitted to the Office of Science and Technology Policy
Re: Update of Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States for the Next Decade: An Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy…
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Coalition Letter on TARP Transparency
Full Document Avalible in PDF On behalf of the millions of taxpayers represented by our respective organizations, we write to urge your support…
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Proposed NCEE Comments on Draft Technical Support Document for Endangerment Analysis for Greenhouse Gas Emisions
Full EPA study available in PDF. The Competitive Enterprise Institute has charged that a senior official of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency actively suppressed…
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Comments to the Environmental Protection Agency on Proposed Endangerment Finding
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a non-profit, free-market public policy organization, hereby submits these…
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Letter to Governor Charlie Crist Regarding HB 1171 “The ‘Consumer Choice’ Bill”
Dear Governor Crist: I am writing to strongly encourage you to sign HB 1171 into law. This bill, rightfully dubbed the “consumer…
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Comment on Endangerment Proposal
CEI advises EPA not to adopt Endangerment Proposal…
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CEI Comments on National Broadband Plan for Our Future
Full Document Available in PDF The Federal Communications Commission faces one of the most significant undertakings in its history with the…
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Lehrer Response Letter to Federal Insurance Regulation Not a Panacea
Full Document Available in PDF To: Congressional Staff and Members From: Eli…
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CEI Comments on Draft FDA Risk-Benefit Assessment of Fish Consumption
CEI applauds the FDA's even-handed approach.
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Testimony before the Committee on Energy and Commerce on the draft American Clean Energy and Security Act
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Letter to New York State Insurance Superintendent Eric Dinallo
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Free Market Coalition Letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson on EPA’s Endangerment Finding
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Letter to Senators Dodd and Shelby, and Congressmen Frank and Bachus regarding National Regulatory Modernization
Full Document Available in PDF This letter written to Senators Dodd and Shelby, and…
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CEI Comment on EPA’s Reconsideration of California’s Request for a Waiver to Establish Emission Standards for new Motor Vehicles
Full Document Available in PDF EPA should stick…
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Bipartisan Civil Liberties Coalition Letter Against New Federal Crimes in Omnibus Land Managment Bill
Dear Speaker Pelosi, and Minority Leader Boehner, Our respective organizations have diverse viewpoints, but we share a deep and abiding belief in due…
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Full Document Available in PDF It is obvious to anybody that a risk of climate change exists: weather patterns…
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Full Document Available in PDF Additional taxes on reinsurance transactions would wreak havoc with…
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Coalition Opposes Proposed Taxes for Affiliated Reinsurance
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Oppose the Federal Stimulus Bill
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…
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No Midnight Rulemaking
Full Document Avalible in PDF Chairman Steve Cohen 1004 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515 February 3, 2009 Dear Chairman Cohen:…
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Requesting a TARP Disapproval Resolution
Full Document Available in PDF United States Congress Washington, DC 20515 Dear Member of Congress: On behalf…
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Letter To President Obama on Credit Unions and Business Lending
Full Document Available in PDF December 23, 2008 The Honorable Barack Obama President-Elect…
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Response to AFSNCP Letter Supporting Mitigation in Stimulus Package
Full Document Avalible in PDF December 18, 2008 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House H-232 Capitol…
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Comments on EPA’s ANPR on Greenhouse Gas Regulation Under the Clean Air Act
CEI’s Christopher C. Horner filed this comment urging EPA not to make an endangerment finding with respect to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new motor…
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Free market groups submit a joint comment on EPA’s ANPR on Greenhouse Gas Regulation under the Clean Air Act
CEI’s Marlo Lewis and representatives of 28 other free market and conservative organizations filed this joint comment urging EPA not to make an endangerment finding with…
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Comments on EPA’s ANPR on Greenhouse Gas Regulation Under the Clean Air Act
In this comment on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on greenhouse gas (GHG) regulation under the Clean Air Act (CAA),…
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Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 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…
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Letter to President Bush on Midnight Regulations
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.
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Coalition Letter on the Finalization of Rules Relating to UIGEA
Full Document Avalible in PDF Dear Ms. Dudley: We are deeply concerned about the regulations you have received from Treasury concerning the…
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Testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Greenhouse Gas Regulation under the Clean Air Act
My name is Marlo Lewis. I am a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market, non-profit public policy group. I have been active…
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Comments to The Property and Casualty Insurance© Committee
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Letter On UIGEA to House Financial Services Committee Members
Attention: House Financial Services Committee LA September 15, 2008 Dear Representative: As the House Financial Services Committee moves towards consideration of…
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Comments before the National Conference of Insurance Legislators on the Geller/Keiser Resolution
Comments before the National Conference of Insurance Legislators Geller/Keiser Resolution As Prepared for Delivery July10, 2008 New York, New York Eli Lehrer Senior Fellow,…
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Testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee on the Privacy Implications of Online Advertising
Privacy dilemmas are inevitable on the frontiers of an evolving information era, but CEI maintains that competitive approaches to online privacy and security will be…
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Testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Introduction Chairman Markey, Chairman Eshoo, Ranking Member Sensenbrenner, Ranking Member Issa, and Committee Members: Thank you for the opportunity to share my views on global…
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Opposition to the Fingerprint Registry in Senate Housing legislation
Dear Senators Reid and McConnell: We are diverse organizations, but we hold in common a deep commitment to privacy rights, civil liberties and the…
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Letter to Congress on the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act
Eli Lehrer and Michelle Minton join Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, to oppose new gaming regulation.
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Open letter to Congress on Dodd-Frank mortgage housing bill
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…
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Comments Submitted to the Federal Communications Commission on Broadcast Localism
CEI Recommends Liberalizing Broadcast Industry…
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Joint Letter to President Bush on Climate Policy
CEI spearheads coalition of over 20 organizations urging President Bush not to give in to political extortion on climate policy.
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Comments to National Association of Insurance Commissioners
Emptying the insurance policy shelves: Why price controls are a bad idea even in insurance markets.
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Brief of Amici Curiae In the Matter of Deseret Power Electric Cooperative
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Brief of Amici Curiae In the Matter of Deseret Power Electric Cooperative
Before the Environmental Appeals Board United States Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC In the matter of:…
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Letter to Sen. Feinstein on CO2 and the Clean Air Act
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Written Comments to the Consumer Product Safety Commission Regarding the use of Chromated Copper Arsenate in Playground Equipmen
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Are Risk Assessment And The Precautionary Principle Equivalent?
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CEI Scholar Testifies Before Congress on Forest Policy
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CEI Expert Testifies on Trade and International Environment
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Comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission on Broadband Industry Practices
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Testimony before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming
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Letter to President Bush on CO2 Endangerment Proceeding
Full Document Available in PDF The Honorable George W. Bush…
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Blueprint for an Improved U.S. Financial Regulatory Structure
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Opposition to “Must Carry” Rules for Cable Operators
Full Document Available in PDF Dear Commissioners: The undersigned organizations wish to reiterate their…
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Open Letter to House Regarding Mortgage Bailouts and Regulation
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…
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Open Letter to Senate Regarding Mortgage Bailouts and Regulation
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…
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Letter to Congress in Support of Optional Federal Chartering
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…
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Opposition Letter to Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) – DRAFT
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is currently considering ratification of the United Nations treaty on the Law of the Sea. This treaty has dangerous…
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Testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Law of the Sea Treaty
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Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act
Full Document Available in PDFs Dear Representative: We are writing to express our concerns…
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Letter in Opposition to Price Controls on Special Access Services
Full Document Available in PDF Dear FCC Chairman & Commissioners: …
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Principles for Windstorm Insurance: A Joint Statement
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…
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Personal Lines Regulatory Framework
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Request that Congress Promptly Extend the Internet Tax Freedom Act
Full Document Available in PDF Dear Member of Congress: On behalf…
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Comments to USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Regarding the Agency’s Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Sta
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A Joint Letter to the U. S. House of Representatives on H. R. 6 and Other Legislation to Raise Energy Prices
A Joint Letter to the U. S. House of Representatives on H. R. 6 and Other Legislation to Raise Energy Prices Washington,…
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Letter to Members of the House Agriculture Committee Regarding the 2007 Farm Bill
To: Members of the House Agriculture Committee We, as representatives of consumer, taxpayer, public policy, and humanitarian groups, are writing to express…
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A Letter Urging Congress to Reject Capital Gains Tax Hikes
Dear Representative, On behalf of the millions of grassroots investors who are members of our organizations, we strongly urge you to reject any increase…
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Comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission in the matter of XM Satellite Radio Holdings and Sirius Satellite Ra
Comments of the Competitive Enterprise Institute Contents…
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Oral Testimony before the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
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Testimony before the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on global warming issues in the power plant
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A Joint Letter to the U. S. Senate on S. 1419, the Making Energy Less Affordable Act
Washington, D. C. 14th June 2007 Dear Senator: The undersigned organizations are writing to share our concerns about S. 1419,…
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Comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission in the matter of Broadband Industry Practices
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Comments Submitted to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners on the Proposed Model Audit Rule
Full Document Available in…
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Testimony on Global Warming before the Republican Study Committee of Colorado
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Comments submitted to the Fish and Wildlife Service regarding its proposal to list the polar bear as a threatened species under
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Comments on the 2005 WTO Ministerial Decision on Duty-Free, Quota-Free Market Access for Least-Developed Countries
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Comments of the Competitive Enterprise Institute to the Food and Drug Administration Regarding the Agency’s Animal Cloning Draft
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Testimony before the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on U.S. Climate Action Partnership Report
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Coalition Letter to SEC Chairman Christopher Cox on Proposed Shareholder Access Rule
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We oppose negotiations on Medicare Part D drug prices
We are deeply concerned about proposed legislation that would lead to negotiation of pharmaceutical prices by the federal government for the new Medicare Part…
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Amici Curiae Brief of Economists and Scholars Marcus Cole, Christopher Demuth, Richard Epstein, Robert Litan, Michael Staten, Pe
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Amici Curiae Brief of Climatologists and Scientists Sallie Baliunas, John R. Christy, Chris De Freitas, David Legates, Anthony L
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Amicus Curiae Brief in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1
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Joint Letter in Support of OCS Bill
Full Document Available in PDF June 28, 2006 Dear Member of Congress: Rising energy costs…
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“Net Neutrality” Is Bad for the Internet
Full Document Available in PDF Big government, pro-regulation groups like MoveOn.org want the…
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Letter to the FCC regarding “must carry” laws for cable operators
Full Document Available in PDF The undersigned organizations would…
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Letter to Congress in Support of Sugar Reform Amendment
Full Document Available in PDF…
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70% of Americans Say They Don’t Want the Government to Prepare Taxes for Them
Full Document Available in PDF Reps. Melissa Hart and Anna Eshoo have introduced H.R. 5114, the Tax Return Choice Act of 2006,…
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Letter on the Potentially Detrimental Effects of Net Neutrality Legislation
Full Document Available in PDF Dear Chairman Barton: As…
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A Joint Letter on Climate Policy to Chairman Domenici and Senator Bingaman
Washington, D. C. 4th April 2006 Hon. Pete V. Domenici Chairman and Hon. Jeff Bingaman Ranking Minority Member Committee…
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CEI Comments on the Domenici-Bingaman Climate Change Policy White Paper
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Response to Questions Posed by Senators Domenici and Bingaman in “Design Elements of a Mandatory Market-Based Greenhouse Ga
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Joint Letter to House and Senate Leadership on Opening ANWR to Energy Exploration
Rep. Dennis Hastert Sen. Bill Frist Rep. John Boehner Washington, D. C. March 8, 2006 Dear Mr. Speaker/Mr.
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ESA Coalition Letter to Senator James M. Inhofe
Full Document Available in PDF…
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Letter to EPA on Human Volunteer Pesticide Testing
Full Document Available in PDF The use of human volunteers in research studies…
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Letter Urging Congress to Introduce Video Competition
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…
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Letter to Roger Ailes; President, Fox News Channel
Roger Ailes President Fox News Channel 1211 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036 VIA FACSIMILE …
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An Open Letter to Congress: Franchise Reform
Dear Member of Congress: Much has changed in the decade since Congress passed the 1996 Telecommunications Act. As Congress is considering changes and updates…
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Letter to Congress Regarding Digital TV Transition and Cable Multicasting
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…
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The President’s Tax Panel Should Dump “Static” Revenue-Estimating
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…