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Comment

CEI Replies to the National Industrial Transportation League’s Petition for Rulemaking to Adopt Revised Competitive Switching Rules

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 08/02/2011

Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of…

Rail and Mass Transit

Comment

Comments on the EPA Proposed Response to Remand Regarding National Ambient Air Quality Standard for Ozone

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 08/02/2011

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…

Energy and Environment

Comment

Comments on the EPA Proposed Response to Remand Regarding National Ambient Air Quality Standard for Ozone

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 08/02/2011

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…

Energy and Environment

Legal Brief

Petition for Review of an Order of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  • By: Sam Kazman
  • 08/01/2011

Automobiles and Roads

Legal Brief

CEI’s CAFE Litigation

  • By: Sam Kazman
  • 08/01/2011

Full Document Avalible in PDF In the 1980s, CAFE was the subject of several lawsuits by the Center for Auto Safety and…

Health and Safety

Legal Brief

Complaint for Declarative Relief versus William Jefferson Clinton

  • By: Christopher C. Horner, Sam Kazman
  • 08/01/2011

Energy and Environment

Legal Brief

Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari in Charles Gilbert Gibbs vs Bruce Babbitt

  • By: Sam Kazman
  • 08/01/2011

Energy and Environment

Legal Brief

Oral Argument in CEI and CA vs. Paul O Neill and Bradley Buckles

  • By: Ben Lieberman, Sam Kazman
  • 08/01/2011

Health and Safety

Comment

Echostar Communications Corporation and Hughes Electronics Corp.

  • By: James V. DeLong
  • 08/01/2011

  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…

Tech and Telecom

Letters

Coalition Letter on Data Retention Bill

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 07/27/2011

Full Document Available in PDF Dear Chairman Smith and Ranking Member Conyers: As public interest groups dedicated to free enterprise and constitutionally…

Comment

Russ Brown to Testify Before the NLRB

  • By: Russ Brown
  • 07/18/2011

Full Document Available in PDF Russ Brown, Vice President at the Labor Relations Institute, will…

Labor and Employment

Letters

CEI Joins Coalition in Support of the Wireless Tax Fairness Act

  • 07/14/2011

Full Document Available as PDF CEI has signed a letter along with a coalition of other…

Regulatory Reform

Comment

CEI Comments to FTC Regarding the Proposed Nutritional Principles and Guidelines for Food Marketing to Children

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 07/08/2011

Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is non-profit organization…

Consumer Freedom

Letters

Coalition Letters Opposing E-Verify Mandate

  • By: Alex Nowrasteh
  • 06/30/2011

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…

Labor and Employment

Comment

CEI Submits Comments on the Proposed Inspection System for Catfish

  • By: Fran Smith, Nick DeLong
  • 06/27/2011

Full Document Available as a PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute…

Consumer Freedom

Legal Brief

CEI’s FOIA Request to Department of Transportation Regarding the Central Valley High-Speed Rail Corridor

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 06/20/2011

Full Document Available as PDF The attached Freedom of Information Act request letters…

Rail and Mass Transit

Comment

CEI Submits Comments on the AT&T — T-Mobile Merger Before the Federal Communications Commission

  • By: Luke Pelican, Ryan Radia
  • 06/13/2011

Full Docmument Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute submits this reply comment regarding the…

Antitrust

Comment

Official Time: Good Value for the Taxpayer?

  • By: F. Vincent Vernuccio
  • 06/06/2011

Full Testimony Available as a PDF Watch Video of the Hearing Here Official time does not represent good value…

Labor and Employment

Legal Brief

CEI’s FOIA to Treasury on Auto Bailout

  • By: Hans Bader, Sam Kazman
  • 06/02/2011

Full Response Available in PDF Documents released by the U.S. Treasury Department indicate that General Motors and the Obama Administration coordinated PR…

Banking and Finance

Comment

CEI Replies to Consumers United for Rail Equity Before the Surface Transportation Board

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 05/27/2011

  Full Document Available as a PDF On behalf…

Rail and Mass Transit

Legal Brief

Brief Amici Curiae of Minnesota Legislators and North Carolina Legislative Leaders in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellees/Cross-Appellants

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/12/2011

Full Document Available in PDF Court below correctly found that the ACA…

Health and Safety

Letters

Coalition Letter to the House Judiciary Committee: Rein in the DOJ

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 05/04/2011

Full Document Available in PDF Dear Member,  We are a coalition of consumer advocates and free market organizations,…

Consumer Freedom

Comment

Declaration of William Yeatman in Lawsuit against Colorado’s Renewable Electricity Standard

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 04/14/2011

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…

Energy and Environment

Letters

Stop New Authority to D.O.E. Loan Guarantee Program

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 04/14/2011

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…

Energy and Environment

Comment

CEI Submits Supplemental Comments on Railroad Competition Before the Surface Transportation Board

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 04/12/2011

Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the…

Rail and Mass Transit

Letters

Coalition Letter Urging Congress to Update Privacy Laws

  • By: Nicole Ciandella
  • 04/06/2011

Full Document Available in PDF As public interest groups dedicated to limited, Constitutional…

Privacy and Cybersecurity

Comment

CEI Submits Comments on Railroad Competition Before the Surface Transportation Board

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 03/18/2011

Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI),…

Rail and Mass Transit

Letters

Coalition Letter Against Mandatory Implementation of E-Verify

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 03/10/2011

Full Document Available in PDF We, the undersigned free-market advocacy groups and public interest organizations, write to share our concerns…

Financial Regulation

Comment

CEI Led Regulatory Comment on Debit Card Interchange Fees and Routing 

  • By: John Berlau
  • 02/22/2011

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,…

Banking and Finance

Comment

CEI Submits Comments on Commercial Motor Vehicle Operator Hours of Service

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 02/17/2011

Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute…

Automobiles and Roads

Comment

Chris Horner’s Testimony to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on “Trade and Green Jobs”

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/14/2011

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…

Energy and Environment

Letters

Coalition for Competitive Insurance Rates coalition letter on Obama’s FY 2012 Budget

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 02/14/2011

Full Document Available in PDF We are writing to express our concern about a proposal within…

Insurance

Comment

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 02/02/2011

Full Document Available in PDF On behalf…

Energy and Environment

Letters

Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures

  • By: John Berlau
  • 12/28/2010

Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the millions of taxpayers represented by our organizations, we write…

Banking and Finance

Legal Brief

Antitrust Amicus Curiae Brief Supporting CEI’s Challenge to the 1998 Tobacco Settlement

  • By: Christine Hall, Sam Kazman
  • 12/16/2010

Full Document Avalible in PDF On December 10, 2010, five law professors filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in…

Consumer Freedom

Legal Brief

Constitutional Law Amicus Curiae Brief Supporting CEI’s Challenge to the 1998 Tobacco Settlement

  • By: Christine Hall, Sam Kazman
  • 12/16/2010

Full Document Avalible in PDF On December 10, 2010, prominent constitutional law experts from opposite ends of the political spectrum submitted an…

Consumer Freedom

Letters

Oppose wasteful $10 billion increase for DOE nuclear loan guarantee program in continuing resolution

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 12/13/2010

Full Document Available in PDF…

Energy and Environment

Letters

Coaliton Letter on Credit Union Regulatory Relief

  • By: John Berlau
  • 12/06/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Along with this letter please find a new advertisement, signed…

Business and Government

Letters

Coalition letter: Allow the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit to Expire

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 12/02/2010

Full Document Avalible in PDF A coalition of political groups today urged Congress to scrap energy subsidies by allowing the subsidies to…

Energy

Legal Brief

Amicus in Obamacare Litigation on Behalf of Minn., Rhode Island Governors

  • By: Hans Bader, Sam Kazman
  • 11/22/2010

Full Document Avalible in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute is representing Governors Tim Pawlenty (R, Minn.) and Donald Carcieri (R, Rhode Island)…

Health and Safety

Legal Brief

Amicus Motion in Obamacare Litigation

  • By: Hans Bader, Sam Kazman
  • 11/12/2010

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is representing Governors Tim Pawlenty (R, Minn.) and Donald Carcieri (R, Rhode Island) seeking permission to file an amicus brief in…

Health and Safety

Legal Brief

S&M Brands v. Caldwell – Appendix to Cert. Petition

  • By: Hans Bader, Sam Kazman
  • 11/09/2010

See: Petition for Writ of Certiorari, S&M Brands v. Caldwell…

Consumer Freedom

Legal Brief

Petition for Writ of Certiorari: S&M Brands, Inc. v. Caldwell

  • By: Hans Bader, Sam Kazman
  • 11/08/2010

Full Document Avalible in PDF Lawsuit Against Government-Tobacco Cartel Brought to Supreme Court Backroom Tobacco Deal Violates US…

Consumer Freedom

Letters

Coalition Letter Against the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 10/21/2010

  Full Document Available in PDF To Members of the United States Congress:    …

Business and Government

Comment

CEI Submits Comments to FCC on Mobile Wireless Platforms and Specialized Services

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 10/12/2010

CEI submitted comments to the FCC on October 12th on how net neutrality regulations will affect mobile innovation and consumer choice of specialized services.

Comment

Joint-Statement Submitted to House and Senate Committees on Reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 09/22/2010

The House and Senate Committees on the Judiciary held separate hearings on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) on September 22, 2010, and September 23,…

Privacy and Cybersecurity

Letters

Fearing Voter Disapproval, Senate Resurrects DISCLOSE Act Ahead of November Elections

  • By: John Berlau
  • 09/22/2010

Full Document Available in PDF We write on behalf of the millions of taxpayers and concerned citizens represented by our respective…

Business and Government

Comment

Supplement to Complaint of Deceptive Advertising Against General Motors Company

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF After General Motors admitted in the news media that the…

Business and Government

Comment

CEI Comments regarding FDA’s Draft Guidance on the Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial Drugs in Food-Producing Animals

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 08/30/2010

Executive Summary The Competitive Enterprise Institute respectfully submits these comments on the agency’s Draft Guidance on The Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial…

Health and Safety

Letters

Letter to House Financial Services Committee

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 07/29/2010

Congress should overturn ban and legalize Internet gambling…

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