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Letters

Letter to Senators Dodd and Shelby, and Congressmen Frank and Bachus regarding National Regulatory Modernization

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 04/09/2009

Full Document Available in PDF  This letter written to Senators Dodd and Shelby, and…

Business and Government

Comment

CEI Comment on EPA’s Reconsideration of California’s Request for a Waiver to Establish Emission Standards for new Motor Vehicles

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/06/2009

Full Document Available in PDF EPA should stick…

Climate

Letters

Bipartisan Civil Liberties Coalition Letter Against New Federal Crimes in Omnibus Land Managment Bill

  • By: John Berlau
  • 03/24/2009

Dear Speaker Pelosi, and Minority Leader Boehner, Our respective organizations have diverse viewpoints, but we share a deep and abiding belief in due…

Energy and Environment

Letters

The Calculation of Climate Change Risk in the Provision of Insurance

  • By: Eli Lehrer, Iain Murray, Michelle Minton
  • 03/06/2009

Full Document Available in PDF   It is obvious to anybody that a risk of climate change exists: weather patterns…

Insurance

Letters

Proposed Taxes on Reinsurance Will Hurt Consumers

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 03/03/2009

Full Document Available in PDF Additional taxes on reinsurance transactions would wreak havoc with…

Insurance

Letters

Coalition Opposes Proposed Taxes for Affiliated Reinsurance

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 02/11/2009

Full Document Available in PDF The Honorable Max Baucus Chairman Senate Finance Committee 219 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, D.C.

Insurance

Letters

Oppose the Federal Stimulus Bill

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/04/2009

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…

Business and Government

Letters

No Midnight Rulemaking

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 02/04/2009

Full Document Avalible in PDF Chairman Steve Cohen 1004 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515 February 3, 2009 Dear Chairman Cohen:…

Business and Government

Letters

Requesting a TARP Disapproval Resolution

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 01/15/2009

Full Document Available in PDF United States Congress Washington, DC 20515 Dear Member of Congress: On behalf…

Business and Government

Letters

Letter To President Obama on Credit Unions and Business Lending

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 12/23/2008

Full Document Available in PDF December 23, 2008 The Honorable Barack Obama President-Elect…

Business and Government

Letters

Response to AFSNCP Letter Supporting Mitigation in Stimulus Package

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 12/19/2008

Full Document Avalible in PDF December 18, 2008 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House H-232 Capitol…

Insurance

Comment

Comments on EPA’s ANPR on Greenhouse Gas Regulation Under the Clean Air Act

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 11/28/2008

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…

Climate

Comment

Free market groups submit a joint comment on EPA’s ANPR on Greenhouse Gas Regulation under the Clean Air Act

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/24/2008

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…

Automobiles and Roads

Comment

Comments on EPA’s ANPR on Greenhouse Gas Regulation Under the Clean Air Act

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/24/2008

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),…

Automobiles and Roads

Letters

Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2008

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 11/11/2008

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…

Energy and Environment

Letters

Letter to President Bush on Midnight Regulations

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 10/31/2008

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.

Business and Government

Letters

Coalition Letter on the Finalization of Rules Relating to UIGEA

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 10/23/2008

Full Document Avalible in PDF Dear Ms. Dudley: We are deeply concerned about the regulations you have received from Treasury concerning the…

Consumer Freedom

Comment

Testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Greenhouse Gas Regulation under the Clean Air Act

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/23/2008

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…

Climate

Comment

Comments to The Property and Casualty Insurance© Committee

  • By: Eli Lehrer, Michelle Minton
  • 09/16/2008

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Insurance

Letters

Letter On UIGEA to House Financial Services Committee Members

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 09/15/2008

Attention: House Financial Services Committee LA September 15, 2008 Dear Representative: As the House Financial Services Committee moves towards consideration of…

Consumer Freedom

Comment

Comments before the National Conference of Insurance Legislators on the Geller/Keiser Resolution

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 07/10/2008

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,…

Insurance

Comment

Testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee on the Privacy Implications of Online Advertising

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 07/09/2008

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…

Free Speech

Comment

Testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/25/2008

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…

Climate

Letters

Opposition to the Fingerprint Registry in Senate Housing legislation

  • By: John Berlau
  • 06/24/2008

Dear Senators Reid and McConnell: We are diverse organizations, but we hold in common a deep commitment to privacy rights, civil liberties and the…

Banking and Finance

Letters

Letter to Congress on the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act

  • By: Eli Lehrer, Michelle Minton
  • 06/24/2008

Eli Lehrer and Michelle Minton join Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, to oppose new gaming regulation.

Consumer Freedom

Letters

Open letter to Congress on Dodd-Frank mortgage housing bill

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 06/17/2008

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…

Law and Litigation

Comment

Comments Submitted to the Federal Communications Commission on Broadcast Localism

  • By: Cord Blomquist
  • 04/28/2008

CEI Recommends Liberalizing Broadcast Industry…

Free Speech

Letters

Joint Letter to President Bush on Climate Policy

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 04/16/2008

CEI spearheads coalition of over 20 organizations urging President Bush not to give in to political extortion on climate policy.

Climate

Comment

Comments to National Association of Insurance Commissioners

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 04/14/2008

Emptying the insurance policy shelves: Why price controls are a bad idea even in insurance markets.

Insurance

Legal Brief

Brief of Amici Curiae In the Matter of Deseret Power Electric Cooperative

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/21/2008

Full Document Avalible in PDF Before the Environmental Appeals Board United States Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC In the matter of: Deseret…

Comment

Brief of Amici Curiae In the Matter of Deseret Power Electric Cooperative

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/21/2008

Before the Environmental Appeals Board United States Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC In the matter of:…

Energy

Letters

Letter to Sen. Feinstein on CO2 and the Clean Air Act

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 02/20/2008

February 20, 2008 The Honorable Dianne Feinstein 331 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Senator Feinstein:…

Comment

Written Comments to the Consumer Product Safety Commission Regarding the use of Chromated Copper Arsenate in Playground Equipmen

  • By: Unknown User
  • 02/13/2008

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Comment

Are Risk Assessment And The Precautionary Principle Equivalent?

  • By: Unknown User
  • 02/13/2008

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Comment

CEI Scholar Testifies Before Congress on Forest Policy

  • By: Unknown User
  • 02/13/2008

POLICY LESSONS OF THE LOS ALAMOS FIRE             POLICY LESSONS OF THE…

Comment

CEI Expert Testifies on Trade and International Environment

  • By: Unknown User
  • 02/13/2008

TESTIMONY Testimony Of Myron Ebell   On International Trade and Environmental…

Comment

Comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission on Broadband Industry Practices

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 02/13/2008

Before the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Washington, DC 20554   In the Matter of Broadband Industry Practices…

Comment

Testimony before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 12/19/2007

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Letters

Letter to President Bush on CO2 Endangerment Proceeding

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/17/2007

  Full Document Available in PDF The Honorable George W. Bush…

Climate

Comment

Blueprint for an Improved U.S. Financial Regulatory Structure

  • By: Eli Lehrer, Michelle Minton
  • 11/14/2007

Full Document Available in PDF Regulatory Comments from Eli Lehrer and…

Letters

Opposition to “Must Carry” Rules for Cable Operators

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/13/2007

Full Document Available in PDF Dear Commissioners: The undersigned organizations wish to reiterate their…

Telecommunications

Letters

Open Letter to House Regarding Mortgage Bailouts and Regulation

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 10/25/2007

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…

Business and Government

Letters

Open Letter to Senate Regarding Mortgage Bailouts and Regulation

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 10/25/2007

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…

Business and Government

Letters

Letter to Congress in Support of Optional Federal Chartering

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 10/16/2007

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…

Insurance

Letters

Opposition Letter to Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) – DRAFT

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 10/04/2007

  The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is currently considering ratification of the United Nations treaty on the Law of the Sea. This treaty has dangerous…

Lands and Wildlife

Comment

Testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Law of the Sea Treaty

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/04/2007

Thank you, Chairman Biden and members of this Committee for your invitation to testify on the Law of the Sea Treaty. I am Fred Smith,…

Letters

Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act

  • By: Sam Kazman
  • 10/02/2007

Full Document Available in PDFs Dear Representative: We are writing to express our concerns…

Consumer Freedom

Letters

Letter in Opposition to Price Controls on Special Access Services

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 10/02/2007

Full Document Available in PDF Dear FCC Chairman & Commissioners: …

Telecommunications

Letters

Principles for Windstorm Insurance: A Joint Statement

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 09/26/2007

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…

Insurance

Comment

Personal Lines Regulatory Framework

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 09/24/2007

Full Document Available in PDF Kevin McCarty Florida Superintendent of Insurance Chair,…

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