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Is Capitalism Destroying Democracy?
When Duke University historian Nancy MacLean released her book “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America” last Summer,…
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CEI Comments on Incentives for Connected or Autonomous Vehicles
On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”), I respectfully submit these comments in response to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (“NHTSA”) and Environmental…
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Letter to TEPAC Members Regarding NAFTA
As I briefly indicated, I would appreciate it if the TEPAC letter reflects the fact that it is a majority view of the members. My…
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CEI Joins Coalition Letter Urging House Passage of Tax Reform 2.0 Legislation
The Honorable Paul Ryan Speaker U.S. House of Representatives H-232, The Capitol Washington, D.C. 20515 The Honorable Kevin Brady Chairman House…
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Request Under the Freedom of Information Act
On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552 et seq., and considering…
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CEI Joins Coalition Letter in Support of H.R. 5470
On behalf of our organizations and Americans we represent, we write to express support of your legislation, H.R. 5470. This legislation will eliminate the Office…
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Liberate to Stimulate
Download Chapter 10 as a PDF Policy makers frequently propose spending stimulus as a way to grow economies. It rarely goes well.
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Regulation and the FCC
Download Chapter 9 as a PDF The Federal Communications Commission is by no means the heavyweight among regulators as gauged by the…
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Reducing Regulatory Barriers: Principles to Cut Red Tape
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Free to Prosper: Food, Drugs and Consumer Freedom
Read the full chapter on Food, Drugs and Consumer Freedom here Few matters are as important to consumers as the foods they eat, the medicines…
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Free to Prosper: Transportation
View the full chapter on Transportation here Mobility is one of our most important needs, one we often take for granted until it is…
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Free to Prosper: Technology and Telecommunications
View the full chapter on technology and telecommunications here Few economic sectors rival the technology and telecommunications industries in how rapidly—and momentously—they have evolved.
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Free to Prosper: Environmental Protection
View the full chapter on Environmental Protection here Private property and secure property rights are essential conditions of freedom and prosperity. Contrary to claims…
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Free to Prosper: Energy and Environment
View the full chapter on Energy and Environment here Energy is the lifeblood of the economy. Thanks to affordable energy, the average person today lives…
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Free to Prosper: Labor and Employment
Read the full chapter on Labor and Employment here Increases in productivity—not artificial increases in labor prices—are the key to economic growth and rising…
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Free to Prosper: Banking and Finance
View the full chapter on Banking and Finance here Access to capital is fundamental to the operation of a free society. It allows for…
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Free to Prosper: Regulatory Reform
View the full chapter on regulatory reform here All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United…
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CEI Joins Organizations to Comment on California’s Draft Self-Driving Car Regulations
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Bruce Yandle’s Remarks at the 2016 CEI Dinner
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[AUDIO] WMAL Interviews Iain Murray on Brexit
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Attorney General Delegates Powers to Tort Lawyer in Exxon Climate Case
The Heartland Institute discusses the subpoena CEI recieved that attacked the organization's first ammendment rights with Sam Kazman. Other victims of Walker’s abuse…
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Report: Taxing The Rich Won’t Fix Income Inequality
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Ten Thousand Commandments 2018 – Executive Summary
Download the Executive Summary as a PDF Spending and deficit restraint are vital to the nation’s economic health. But the cost…
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9,999 Commandments? Six Ways Rule Flows Were Reduced or Streamlined in 2017
Download Chapter 1 as a PDF Rather than jump directly into the numbers of rules and regulations, this year’s Ten Thousand…
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Toward a Federal Regulatory Budget
Download Chapter 2 as a PDF When Congress spends money, a certain degree of disclosure helps voters hold their representatives accountable. Federal…
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The Cost of Regulation and Intervention
Download Chapter 3 as a PDF Regulation and spending are related; both are implements by which governments act or compel individuals. Therefore, policy…
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Thousands of Pages and Rules in the Federal Register
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Presidential Executive Orders and Executive Memoranda
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More than 22,000 Public Notices Annually
Download Chapter 6 as a PDF In addition to the Federal Register’s tally of some presidential memoranda, public notices in the Federal…
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Analysis of the Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulation
Download Chapter 7 as a PDF The “Regulatory Plan and Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions” (the Agenda) is where agencies…
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Government Accountability Office Database on Regulations
Download Chapter 8 as a PDF The various federal reports and databases on regulations serve different purposes: The Federal Register shows the…
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First Amendment Fight: CEI’s Climate Change Subpoena
“Attorney General Walker’s subpoena of us is an outrageous violation of our First Amendment rights, and its sole purpose is to shut down debate.” -…
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Big, bloated government
The Pittsburg Trib cites Wayne Crews's study on the federal regulatory state. It gets worse. Clyde Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
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Free Market Groups Putting Property Principles into Action
When I told a friend some years ago that I was going to be working in a think tank, he replied, “Huh. I always wondered…
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Bernie Bill Could Be A Big Win For Union Election Drivers
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Walker Labor-Policy Proposal Earns Praise
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Graham Hearing Could Touch On I-Poker Ban Bill
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Chief Justice Roberts: Congress passed ACA to improve insurance markets, not destroy them
PBS.org quotes CEI`s Sam Kazman on the Kings vs. Burwell Supreme Court Desicion: Sam Kazman, Competitive Enterprise Institute: Today’s ruling is a tragedy for…
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Controversy builds at U.S. consumer protection bureau
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Good times, bad times — Rider right by my side — Hill docs call for keeping ozone
The POLITICO quotes CEI`s Marlo Lewis on the Pope`s encyclical: GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES: It’s been more than 48 hours since Pope Francis’…
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Former OCR Lawyer Hans Bader Responds to Finding of Title IX Violation at Harvard Law School
The Torch (FIRE) quotes CEI`s Hans Bader on violation of Title IX. at Harvard Law School: Last week, the Department of Education’s Office…
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Labor and Employment Roundup
Overlawyered cites CEI`s Hans Bader: President Obama keeps promoting myths about Lilly Ledbetter case [Hans Bader, CEI]…
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New Rule Empowers Union ‘Ambush Elections’
With declining union membership, the easiest way for the NLRB to help unions increase their ranks is limiting the time that workers have to contemplate the…
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Wall St. attacked, Main St. wounded
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In Support of Citizens United, Against Targeting Political Speech
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Stop the Insanity: How GOP Congress can lead way to smart energy policy
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Obama Administration Hot and Cold on Climate Warnings
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Obama Operative Joins Taxpayer-Backed Solar Company
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I, Pencil: Resources and Curriculum
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Supreme Court Will Review King v. Burwell – CERTIORARI GRANTED
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Spanish Firm Under Federal Investigation Wins $230 Million in DOE Subsidies
A Spanish renewable energy company under investigation by at least two federal agencies unveiled a new biofuel production facility on Friday that will receive hundreds…
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What Is Plouffe’s Battle Plan?
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick’s decision to hire former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe raises some interesting questions. Uber, a social network offering consumers an attractive…
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Oklahoma v. Burwell
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Response questioned
David Heckman’s response (“A bad idea,” Your Views, Sept. 6) to my recent op-ed (“Tolls less regressive than gas taxes,” Views, Aug. 31) conflated mine…
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Back to School Roundup
Provision in proposed “Campus Accountability and Safety Act” (CASA) would incentivize fining colleges by letting Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights keep the proceeds […
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For Federal Contractors, a Hundred Little Compliance Plans
Coyote and Hans Bader write about yet another new burden loaded on federal contractors, involving the creation of separate affirmative action plans for…
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Eric Holder Avenges Investor Fraud by Taking from Victimized Investors
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Deputizing America
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Study: Collective Bargaining Slows Economic Growth, Lowers Wages
Collective bargaining may not be the boon for workers that labor unions claim it is, according to a new study. The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI),…
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Dodd-Frank is the new ObamaCare
“If you like your life, home, and auto insurance, you can keep them.” No, President Obama didn’t utter those words when he signed the Dodd-Frank…
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New CEI Report Gives 10 Reasons to Abolish the Corrupt Export-Import Bank
New CEI Report Gives 10 Reasons to Abolish the Corrupt Export-Import Bank Time to End One of Government’s Largest Corporate Welfare Programs WASHINGTON,…
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Obamacare is a Game of Jenga
With the help of CEI, a group of small business owners from six states sued the federal government over an IRS regulation imposed under the…
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Proof and Campus Rape
To the Editor: Re “New Rules to Address Campus Rape” (editorial, June 30): It is unfortunate that the federal government now seeks to restrict…
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Forget Sharia, The New Egyptian Constitution Enshrines Socialism
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The Cure For Regulation Destabilization
If U.S. federal regulation were a country, it’d be the tenth largest, right there between Italy and India. For the typical family that regulatory cost…
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Xcel Energy seeks $138 million electric rate increase
If approved by the PUC, typical residential rates would increase by $3.96 a month starting in 2015. An additional increase in 2016 and 2017, in…
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Political Spotlight Returns to Energy Panel This Week with Votes on FERC Nominees, KXL Pipeline
Adding to the mix is Competitive Enterprise Institute, which took part in attacking Binz last year before he pulled his name for the nomination to…
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Regulating Sex on Campus
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Freedom of Information Act Requests on Official Time During Government Shutdown
The following are Freedom of Information Act requests seeking documents related…
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Letter to Rep. Paul Broun and Attached Comments on EPA’s Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment
Full Document Available in PDF I want to thank you for holding a hearing in your Oversight Subcommittee on 1st August on…
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Ten Thousand Commandments 2013: A Fact Sheet
Full Document Available in PDF 1. This is the 20th anniversary of Ten Thousand Commandments. In that time, 81,883 final rules have…
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Fact Sheet on the Senate’s E-Verify Proposal
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Letter to Maryland State Board of Education
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Farm Bill Will Not Solve Drought
Dear Speaker Boehner, We write…
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Christopher Horner Discussing Oil Prices, Presidential Energy Policies on The Flipside on CNNfn
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Fred Smith Discusses “The Day After Tomorrow” Film on Capital Report on CNBC
GLORIA BORGER, co-anchor: And welcome back. “The Day After Tomorrow” hits theaters this Memorial Day weekend, sending a tidal wave of political debate on global…
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Myron Ebell on Scarborough Country on MSNBC
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Myron Ebell on Fox Hannity and Colmes
HANNITY: Welcome to HANNITY & COLMES. I’m Sean Hannity. And coming up next, need proof that the media is liberally biased? We’ve got a new…
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Fred Smith Discusses Auto Worker Strike on CNN Crossfire
CNN CROSSFIRE, July 13, 1998 HEADLINE: Who Will Give in the Auto Workers Strike that Has Crippled GM? GUESTS: Michael Moore, Fred Smith BYLINE: Bill…
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Fred Smith and Pat Buchanan discuss the Bush administration’s handling of steel tariffs on CNBC
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Gregory Conko Discussing Cloning Translating Into Big Business and Safety Issues on CNNfn
CNNfn: Money & Markets (c) 2003 Federal Document Clearing House. All Rights Reserved. Friday, October 31, 2003 Business Cloning Translating Into Big Business and Safety…
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Christopher Horner Discussing Environmental Laws and Wildfires on MSNBC: Buchanan and Press
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Fred Smith and Michael Jacobson discuss proposed legislation to fight obesity on CNBC Capital Report
BODY: GLORIA BORGER, co-host: And welcome back to CAPITAL REPORT. The FDA is looking for ways to combat the exploding rate of obesity in…
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Next @ CNN with Robert J. Smith
NEXT@CNN Aired August 16, 2003 – 15:00 ET President Bush says volunteerism is the ticket to saving America’s national parks. But critics aren’t so…
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Fred Smith on Kudlow & Cramer
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Roger Bates Speech on Climate Change
Thank you very much, Ron. It appears I’ve been promoted up the batting order. I don’t know if that’s necessarily a benefit to you or…
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Fran Smith’s Briefing Sponsored by the Congressional Sugar Reform Caucus
Sugar program is sweet for farmers, bitter for consumers…
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CEI Planet – September-October 2010
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Outsourced Emissions, Internet Gambling, and TIGER II
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Uncle Sam Wants to Cuddle
We have heard much recently about the “Europeanization” of America, particularly in the context of socialized health care or expanded environmental regulation. Yet few have…
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Bill Would Mandate Equal Pay for Unequal Work (Letter to the Editor)
Diana Furchtgott-Roth was right to criticize a bill that would require some people who do unequal work to be paid equal amounts. The perverse “Paycheck…
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So. SEIU’s Andy Stern Leaving, or Pushed Out
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Tightening Credit Hurts Small Businesses
The Sept. 1 editorial “On better terms” conceded that overall interest rates have risen on credit cards after the passage of the Credit CARD…
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Pests over People?
Just because coal is an inanimate object doesn’t mean President Obama’s war on coal avoids human casualties. I witnessed the collateral damage to coal-dependent…
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Green Energy Is Race We Want To Lose (Letter to the Editor)
The story says “China overtook the United States for the first time last year in the race to invest” in clean energy — as if…
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CEI Planet: May – June 2009
To view this issue of the CEI Planet, please click here to download the PDF file. Below are selected articles…
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CEI Planet: January – February 2009
View the new Montly Planet by downloading the PDF of the issue. Below you’ll find previews of the articles in this issue: From The…