Comment
Complaint for Declarative Relief versus John Marburger
Full Document Available in PDF This is an action seeking to apply the Federal Data Quality…
Comment
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,…
Comment
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…
Legal Brief
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…
Legal Brief
Joint Brief of Petitioners and Petitioner-Intervenors in Nebraska vs EPA
Legal Brief
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.
Legal Brief
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…
Letters
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…
Letters
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.”…
Legal Brief
Amicus Brief on Writ of Certiorari in Trans Union vs. Federal Trade Commission
Comment
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…
Letters
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…
Comment
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…
Comment
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…
Legal Brief
Petition for Review of an Order of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Legal Brief
CEI’s CAFE Litigation
Full Document Avalible in PDF In the 1980s, CAFE was the subject of several lawsuits by the Center for Auto Safety and…
Legal Brief
Complaint for Declarative Relief versus William Jefferson Clinton
Legal Brief
Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari in Charles Gilbert Gibbs vs Bruce Babbitt
Legal Brief
Oral Argument in CEI and CA vs. Paul O Neill and Bradley Buckles
Comment
Echostar Communications Corporation and Hughes Electronics Corp.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. Since its beginning in…
Letters
Coalition Letter on Data Retention Bill
Comment
Russ Brown to Testify Before the NLRB
Full Document Available in PDF Russ Brown, Vice President at the Labor Relations Institute, will…
Letters
CEI Joins Coalition in Support of the Wireless Tax Fairness Act
Full Document Available as PDF CEI has signed a letter along with a coalition of other…
Comment
CEI Comments to FTC Regarding the Proposed Nutritional Principles and Guidelines for Food Marketing to Children
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is non-profit organization…
Letters
Coalition Letters Opposing E-Verify Mandate
CEI has signed coalition letters to both the Senate and the House of Representatives opposing H.R. 2164, which would mandate the use of the bureaucratic…
Comment
CEI Submits Comments on the Proposed Inspection System for Catfish
Full Document Available as a PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute…
Legal Brief
CEI’s FOIA Request to Department of Transportation Regarding the Central Valley High-Speed Rail Corridor
Full Document Available as PDF The attached Freedom of Information Act request letters…
Comment
CEI Submits Comments on the AT&T — T-Mobile Merger Before the Federal Communications Commission
Full Docmument Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute submits this reply comment regarding the…
Comment
Official Time: Good Value for the Taxpayer?
Full Testimony Available as a PDF Watch Video of the Hearing Here Official time does not represent good value…
Legal Brief
CEI’s FOIA to Treasury on Auto Bailout
Full Response Available in PDF Documents released by the U.S. Treasury Department indicate that General Motors and the Obama Administration coordinated PR…
Comment
CEI Replies to Consumers United for Rail Equity Before the Surface Transportation Board
Full Document Available as a PDF On behalf…
Legal Brief
Brief Amici Curiae of Minnesota Legislators and North Carolina Legislative Leaders in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellees/Cross-Appellants
Full Document Available in PDF Court below correctly found that the ACA…
Letters
Coalition Letter to the House Judiciary Committee: Rein in the DOJ
Full Document Available in PDF Dear Member, We are a coalition of consumer advocates and free market organizations,…
Comment
Declaration of William Yeatman in Lawsuit against Colorado’s Renewable Electricity Standard
Today American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s Renewable Energy Standard, based upon evidence that…
Letters
Stop New Authority to D.O.E. Loan Guarantee Program
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…
Comment
CEI Submits Supplemental Comments on Railroad Competition Before the Surface Transportation Board
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the…
Letters
Coalition Letter Urging Congress to Update Privacy Laws
Full Document Available in PDF As public interest groups dedicated to limited, Constitutional…
Comment
CEI Submits Comments on Railroad Competition Before the Surface Transportation Board
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI),…
Letters
Coalition Letter Against Mandatory Implementation of E-Verify
Full Document Available in PDF We, the undersigned free-market advocacy groups and public interest organizations, write to share our concerns…
Comment
CEI Led Regulatory Comment on Debit Card Interchange Fees and Routing
VIA E-MAIL TRANSMISSION [email protected] February 22, 2011 Ms. Jennifer J. Johnson, Secretary Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System 20th Street and Constitution Avenue,…
Comment
CEI Submits Comments on Commercial Motor Vehicle Operator Hours of Service
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
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Chris Horner’s Testimony to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on “Trade and Green Jobs”
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today is considering the idea of becoming a world leading exporter of politically selected technologies and blazing this…
Letters
Coalition for Competitive Insurance Rates coalition letter on Obama’s FY 2012 Budget
Full Document Available in PDF We are writing to express our concern about a proposal within…