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CEI Submitted Comments to the FCC on Restoring Internet Freedom
View Full Document as PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), we respectfully submit these reply comments regarding the FCC’s…
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Coalition of 83 Organizations, Elected Officials, and Individuals Submit Comments In the Matter of Restoring Internet Freedom
View Full Document as PDF Dear Chairman Pai, Commissioner O’Rielly, and Commissioner Clyburn: These coalition comments are updated from the July 17,…
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Testimony of Marc Scribner Before the Utah Transportation Governance and Funding Task Force
View Full Document as PDF Chairs Harper and Schultz, and members of the task force, thank you giving me the opportunity to…
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CEI’s John Berlau Testimony Before House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities and Investment
View full document as PDF Chairman Huizenga, Ranking Member Maloney, and honorable members of this subcommittee, thank you for this opportunity to…
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CEI Comments to the FCC on Restoring Internet Freedom
View full document as PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), we respectfully submit these comments regarding the FCC’s proposed…
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Letter for the Record to Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee (Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection)
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Letter for the Record to Members of the House Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection (Committee on Energy and Commerce)
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Petition for Rulemaking on TSA Laptop Ban
View Full Document as PDF Dear Counsel: This is a rulemaking petition requesting that Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Transportation Security Administration…
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Options for Addressing President Trump’s Paris Climate Pact Promise
View Full Document as PDF This memo analyzes two principal options for dealing with the Paris Climate Agreement, U.S. participation in which…
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Comments of CEI, R Street, et al. on Proposed California DMV Driverless Car Regulations
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CEI Comments to the California DMV on Autonomous Vehicle Regulations
View Full Document as PDF Dear Mr. Soublet, On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”), I respectfully submit these comments in…
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CEI Comments to NHTSA on Vehicle to Vehicle Communications
View Full Document as PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”), I respectfully submit these comments in response to the…
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Testimony of John Berlau to House Oversight Committee
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CEI Comments to U.S. Department of Labor in Support of Proposed 60-Day Delay in Fiduciary Rule
View Full Document as PDF Dear Sir or Madam, On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, I am pleased to provide these…
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CEI Comments to FCC on Broadband Privacy Order
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Wayne Crews Letter of Record on Regulating Space: Innovation, Liberty, and International Obligations
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Testimony to Alaska Senate Committee on REAL ID Act (SB34)
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Comments of the Center for Class Action Fairness to the Civil Rules Advisory Committee on Federal Rule Civil Procedure 23
View Full Document as PDF It is important to understand that, in practice, rules relating to class-action settlements will most often be…
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Testimony to Subcommittees on Use of Official time at the Department of Veterans Affairs
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Testimony to Minnesota Senate Judiciary Committee on REAL ID Act (SF166)
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CEI Letter to SEC on Derivatives Regulation
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CEI Comments on Seattle Ride-Share Ordinance
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CEI Comments to the FDA on Voluntary Sodium Reduction Goals
View full document as PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Food and Drug Administration’s Draft…
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CEI Comments to NHTSA on Automated Vehicles Policy
View Document as PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”), the R Street Institute (“R Street”), and TechFreedom, we respectfully…
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Comments to the EPA on Clean Energy Incentive Program
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Comments to the California Department of Motor Vehicles on Automated Vehicle Regulations
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CEI Comments to the CFPB on Harmful Payday Loan Rule
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Comments on the Clean Energy Incentive Program Design Details
View Document as PDF Twenty-eight States joined by numerous industry and non-profit groups are challenging the legality of EPA’s carbon dioxide (CO2)…
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CEI Comments on New Mandates for Freight Railroads
View Document as PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”), I respectfully submit these comments in response to the Surface…
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Comments to the CFPB on Barring Arbitration Agreements
View Document as PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), we are pleased to provide the following comments on the…
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CEI Comments on Proposed Volkswagen Settlement with DOJ Under the Clean Air Act
View Document as PDF Summary As part of the proposed partial consent decree, Volkswagen (VW) agrees to invest $1.2 billion over ten years…
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Ted Frank’s Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice Examination of Litigation Abuse
View Document as PDF Class actions were designed to provide injured parties with a more efficient means of accessing justice by aggregating claims…
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CEI and Tech Freedom Comments to the FCC on Protecting Broadband Customers’ Privacy
Full Document Available in PDF Chutzpah, wrote Leo Rostein in his 1968 classic, The Joys of Yiddish, is “that quality enshrined in a…
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CEI Petitions FCC to Reconsider Conditions Imposed on Charter-Time Warner Cable Merger
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute, John France, Daniel Frank, Jean-Claude Gruffat, and Charles Haywood seek reconsideration of the…
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CEI and Tech Freedom Comments to the FCC on “Set-Top Box” Regulations
Full Document Available in PDF The FCC claims it is trying to “Unlock the Box” to “empower consumers to choose how they…
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Comments to the SEC on Derivative Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF The SEC proposes this rule “to take an updated and more comprehensive approach to the regulation of funds’…
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Testimony of William Yeatman on “EPA’s Regional Haze Program” before the Subcommittee on Environment Committee on Science, Space, & Technology
Full Document Available in PDF Chairman Jim Bridenstine, Ranking Member Bonamici, Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for inviting me…
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Regulatory Comments on Rulemaking on Products Containing Organohalogen Flame Retardants
Full Document Available in PDF I offer these comments on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a free-market public policy organization…
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CEI Joins 44 Organizations Supporting a Permanent Ban on Internet Access Tax
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Comments to the EPA on the Model Federal Implementation Plan for the Clean Power Plan
Full Document Available in PDF Dear Administrator McCarthy, We, the undersigned nonprofit public interest organizations, respectfully submit these comments in response to…
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CEI Comments to the Federal Aviation Administration regarding Registration and Marking Requirements for Small Unmanned Aircraft
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”), we respectfully submit these comments in response to the…
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State Policy Network Groups’ Comments on Clean Power Plan
The following State Policy Network think tanks, the Buckeye Institute in Ohio, the Independence Institute in Colorado, the Rio Grande Foundation in New Mexico, and the…
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CEI Comments to IRS on Substantiation Requirements
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CEI Comments Responding To the FAA Request for Information on Registration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”), I respectfully submit these comments in response to the Federal…
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CEI Issues Comment to EPA on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles
View Document as PDF Comments Submitted by Marlo Lewis (Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute), Wayne Brough (Chief Economist and Vice President of…
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IAEP Submission to Australian Senate on Credit Card Interest Payments
Full Document Available in PDF Credit card interest rates and other features are only partly driven by factors such as the Reserve…
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CEI Comments on Labor Department Fiduciary Rule
Full Document Available in PDF Dear Sir or Madam, On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and FreedomWorks Foundation, we are pleased…
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CEI Comments to the Uniform Law Commission’s Study Committee on State Regulation of Driverless Cars
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”), I respectfully submit these comments in response to the…
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CEI Comments to the FAA on Proposed Regulation Regarding Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Read the Full Comments Here On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”), I respectfully submit these comments in response to the…
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Congressional Testimony – Fred Smith on the Private Role of “Public Goods”
Read the full testimony here Good afternoon Chairman Calvert, Ranking Member McCollum, and members of the Appropriations Subcommittee on…
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Remarks at the International Alliance for Electronic Payments Panel on EU Interchange Fee Regulations
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Congressional Testimony – Michelle Minton on the Restoration of America’s Wire Act
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Regulatory comments on NEPA Review of Project-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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Public Comment to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
Summary: Since the release of the Chronic Hazard Advisory Panel (CHAP) report in July, many stakeholders have raised serious concerns about the process and report methodologies.
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CEI, ICLE, TechFreedom File Comments with FCC in MVPD Definition Proceeding
Full Document Available in PDF In this proceeding, the Commission proposes to expand the definition of a multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD)…
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CEI and Free-Market Colleagues Comments to EPA on Clean Power Plan
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Comments to NHTSA Regarding Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”), I respectfully submit these comments in response to the…
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CEI Comments in DOT-OST-2014-0056
View the Full Comments Here The Department of Transportation is using consumer complaints over baggage and other fees as a pretext to…
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The Federal Office of No
Read the Full Comments Here President Barack Obama’s 2014 State of the Union Address capped many weeks during which he and his…
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Comcast-TWC Merger Comments to FCC
View Full Comments Here In comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission yesterday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute urged the FCC to unconditionally…
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CEI Comments to the Federal Communication Commission on Open Internet
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Comments to USDOT in the matter of Use of Mobile Wireless Devices for Voice Calls on Aircraft
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”), I respectfully submit these comments in response…
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Comments to the FDA on Trans Fats
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CEI Comments to the IRS on Proposed New Restrictions on Candidate-Related Activities of 501(c)(4) Organizations
Full Document Available in PDF The Treasury Department’s proposed rule has been…
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Free Market Organizations’ Letter to Office of Management and Budget on Social Cost of Carbon
CEI and Freedom Action, along with members of the Cooler Heads Coalition, on February 26, 2014 submitted a public comment to the Office of Management…
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Myron Ebell’s Testimony to Ohio Senate
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Comments to the Federal Communications Commission in the matter of Expanding Access to Mobile Wireless Services Onboard Aircraft
Full…
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Comments to the SEC by John Berlau on Crowdfunding
In comments submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), CEI Senior Fellow John Berlau warns that new SEC rules impacting crowdfunding could…
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CEI comments on Dodd-Frank proposed diversity statement Docket No OP-1465
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Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA Senators’ Amicus Brief
Full Document Available in PDF…
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Comments to the Department of Agriculture on the Arctic Apple
Full Document Available in PDF We are a group of legal scholars and practicing attorneys who…
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Balance of Competences Review: Trade and Investment
In December, 2013, Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute submitted evidence to the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in order to argue…
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Testimony on NPS Closures Before House Oversight and Natural Resources Committees
Full Document Available in PDF Chairman Issa and Chairman Hastings, thank you for inviting me to testify today on the National Park…
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FOIA Requests to Agencies on Government Shutdown Policies
During the government shutdown in October, 2013, executive branch agencies such as the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service, aggressively barricaded public access to…
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Comment Letter on LLF Petition for Reconsideration, Docket No. EERE-BT-PET-0043, September 16, 2013
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a non-profit public policy group specializing in regulatory issues, I am pleased…
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CEI Public Comment concerning Department of Energy’s final rule establishing Energy Conservation Standards for Standby Mode and Off Modefor Microwave Ovens
On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Marlo Lewis submitted this comment in support of the Landmark Legal Foundation’s petition for reconsideration of the Department…
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Balance of Competences Review: Trade and Investment
Full Document Available in PDF Iain Murray is a British citizen who is Vice President at CEI and heads the…
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Comments to the OMB on its 2013 Draft Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations and Agency Compliance with the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.
Wayne Crews submitted comments to the OMB on its 2013 Draft Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations and Agency Compliance…
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Comments to the TSA Regarding the Deployment of AIT
Full Document Available in PDF On March 26, 2013, TSA proposed a rule regarding passenger screening using advanced imaging technology after a…
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Reply Comments before the STB in EP 711
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise…
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Comment Letter on Third Upton Waxman White Paper
This comment letter addresses Question 1(a) of your Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) White Paper on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Other Environmental Impacts, which asks: “Is…
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Testimony by Wayne Crews on the Water Desalination Act of 1996
CEI’s Wayne Crews testified before the House Subcommittee on Water and Power on Thursday, May 23, 2013 on the subject of the Reauthorization of Water…
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Comments on Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
Full Document Available in PDF In what would be the largest trade pact ever, the United States and the European Union early…
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CEI Comment Letter on Second Upton-Waxman White Paper
Full Document Available in PDF Dear Sirs, Again, thank you for organizing this important and timely review of the Renewable Fuel Standard…
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Comment Letter on Upton-Waxman White Paper
Full Document Available in PDF Dear Sirs, Thank you for organizing this important and timely review of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
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Reply comments to FCC on AT&T petition
CEI and other free market groups on February 25, 2013 urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to grant a request to relax antiquated regulatory barriers.
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Marlo Lewis – 2017 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards
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Comment Letter in Support of Renewable Fuel Standard Waiver Petitions
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a non-profit public policy group specializing in regulatory issues,…
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Comments on National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter
Full Document Available in PDF 1. A Secondary NAAQS for Visibility Either Conflates or Conflicts with the Regional Haze Program; If the…
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Testimony on The 10th Anniversary of the Sarbanes- Oxley Act
John Berlau testifies July 26, 2012 before a House Financial Services subcommittee on the topic of the 10th anniversary of Sarbanes-Oxley.
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Testimony on Examining Consumer Credit Access Concerns, New Products and Federal Regulations
CEI’s John Berlau testified before the House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit. Berlau explains why reducing unnecessary regulatory barriers will increase competition for…
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Testimony on “The Marketplace Equity Act of 2011”
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is a non-profit public policy research organization dedicated to advancing individual liberty…
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Testimony on “Mandate Madness: When Sue and Settle Just Isn’t Enough”
Full Document Available in PDF Chairman Lankford, Ranking Member Connolly, Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to testify before…
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Comment Letter on EPA’s Carbon Pollution Standard
CEI's Marlo Lewis' comments submitted to the EPA on the agency's proposed "Carbon Pollution Standard."…
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CEI’s CLIP Submits Comments Before the FCC on 700 MHz Interoperability
Full Document Available in PDF The Communications Liberty and Innovation Project submits these comments…
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Testimony on Reauthorization of Water Desalination Act of 2011
Full Document Available in PDF Separation of State and Water Water availability is a core infrastructure concern; today, that specific legislative…
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Reply Comments to FCC Re: Verizon Wireless Application to Acquire Spectrum Licenses
Full Document Available in PDF Executive Summary: The Federal Communications Commission should approve the applications of Verizon Wireless to acquire spectrum licenses…
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Testimony on Jobs Before House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade
Full Document Available in PDF Chairwoman Bono Mack, Ranking Member Butterfield, and members of thissubcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to present…
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Comment Letter on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Economy Standards
Full Document Available in PDF Re: 2017 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards and Corporate Average Fuel Economy…
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Comments Submitted to U.S.-EU High Level Working Group on Jobs and Growth
Full Document Available in PDF The path to economic growth and prosperity is not something readily planned from above but rather is…