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CEI Comments to the CFPB on Harmful Payday Loan Rule

  • 10/07/2016

View File as PDF CEI submitted comments on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) proposed rule on Payday, Vehicle Title, and Certain…

Comment

Comments on the Clean Energy Incentive Program Design Details

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/29/2016

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)…

Energy and Environment

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CEI Comments on New Mandates for Freight Railroads

  • 09/26/2016

View Document as PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”), I respectfully submit these comments in response to the Surface…

Transportation

Comment

Comments to the CFPB on Barring Arbitration Agreements

  • 08/22/2016

View Document as PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), we are pleased to provide the following comments on the…

Banking and Finance

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CEI Comments on Proposed Volkswagen Settlement with DOJ Under the Clean Air Act

  • 08/05/2016

View Document as PDF Summary As part of the proposed partial consent decree, Volkswagen (VW) agrees to invest $1.2 billion over ten years…

Energy and Environment

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Ted Frank’s Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice Examination of Litigation Abuse

  • By: Ted Frank
  • 07/27/2016

View Document as PDF Class actions were designed to provide injured parties with a more efficient means of accessing justice by aggregating claims…

Class Action Fairness

Comment

CEI and Tech Freedom Comments to the FCC on Protecting Broadband Customers’ Privacy

  • 07/07/2016

Full Document Available in PDF Chutzpah, wrote Leo Rostein in his 1968 classic, The Joys of Yiddish, is “that quality enshrined in a…

Tech and Telecom

Comment

CEI Petitions FCC to Reconsider Conditions Imposed on Charter-Time Warner Cable Merger

  • By: Hans Bader, Ryan Radia, Sam Kazman, Ted Frank
  • 06/09/2016

Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute, John France, Daniel Frank, Jean-Claude Gruffat, and Charles Haywood seek reconsideration of the…

Tech and Telecom

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CEI and Tech Freedom Comments to the FCC on “Set-Top Box” Regulations

  • 04/25/2016

Full Document Available in PDF The FCC claims it is trying to “Unlock the Box” to “empower consumers to choose how they…

Tech and Telecom

Comment

Comments to the SEC on Derivative Regulation

  • By: J. Caleb Johnson, John Berlau, Ryan Radia, Sam Kazman
  • 03/29/2016

Full Document Available in PDF The SEC proposes this rule “to take an updated and more comprehensive approach to the regulation of funds’…

Banking and Finance

Comment

Testimony of William Yeatman on “EPA’s Regional Haze Program” before the Subcommittee on Environment Committee on Science, Space, & Technology

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 03/23/2016

Full Document Available in PDF Chairman Jim Bridenstine, Ranking Member Bonamici, Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for inviting me…

Energy and Environment

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Regulatory Comments on Rulemaking on Products Containing Organohalogen Flame Retardants

  • 01/25/2016

Full Document Available in PDF I offer these comments on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a free-market public policy organization…

Consumer Freedom

Comment

CEI Joins 44 Organizations Supporting a Permanent Ban on Internet Access Tax

  • 01/21/2016

Full Document Available in PDF Dear Leader McConnell and Minority Leader Reid, The undersigned organizations, which represent millions of American consumers, strongly…

Comment

Comments to the EPA on the Model Federal Implementation Plan for the Clean Power Plan

  • 01/21/2016

Full Document Available in PDF Dear Administrator McCarthy, We, the undersigned nonprofit public interest organizations, respectfully submit these comments in response to…

Energy and Environment

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CEI Comments to the Federal Aviation Administration regarding Registration and Marking Requirements for Small Unmanned Aircraft

  • By: Marc Scribner, Ryan Radia
  • 01/15/2016

Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”), we respectfully submit these comments in response to the…

Aviation

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State Policy Network Groups’ Comments on Clean Power Plan

  • 12/23/2015

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…

Energy and Environment

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CEI Comments to IRS on Substantiation Requirements

  • 12/18/2015

Full Document Available in PDF "On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), we respectfully submit these comments in response to the Internal…

Comment

CEI Comments Responding To the FAA Request for Information on Registration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 11/05/2015

Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”), I respectfully submit these comments in response to the Federal…

Transportation

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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

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 10/01/2015

View Document as PDF Comments Submitted by Marlo Lewis (Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute), Wayne Brough (Chief Economist and Vice President of…

Energy and Environment

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IAEP Submission to Australian Senate on Credit Card Interest Payments

  • By: Iain Murray, Tim Andrews
  • 08/10/2015

Full Document Available in PDF Credit card interest rates and other features are only partly driven by factors such as the Reserve…

Banking and Finance

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CEI Comments on Labor Department Fiduciary Rule

  • 07/22/2015

Full Document Available in PDF Dear Sir or Madam, On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and FreedomWorks Foundation, we are pleased…

Banking and Finance

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CEI Comments to the Uniform Law Commission’s Study Committee on State Regulation of Driverless Cars

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 06/01/2015

Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”), I respectfully submit these comments in response to the…

Automobiles and Roads

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CEI Comments to the FAA on Proposed Regulation Regarding Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 04/24/2015

Read the Full Comments Here On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”), I respectfully submit these comments in response to the…

Transportation

Comment

Congressional Testimony – Fred Smith on the Private Role of “Public Goods”

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 04/06/2015

Read the full testimony here   Good afternoon Chairman Calvert, Ranking Member McCollum, and members of the Appropriations Subcommittee on…

Capitalism

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Remarks at the International Alliance for Electronic Payments Panel on EU Interchange Fee Regulations

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 03/30/2015

Full Document Available in PDF CEI's Iain Murray spoke on a panel on EU Interchange Fee Regulations in Brussels, Belgum. Below are…

Comment

Congressional Testimony – Michelle Minton on the Restoration of America’s Wire Act

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 03/26/2015

Read the full testimony here   From the conclusion: It is human nature to fear the unknown and…

Comment

Regulatory comments on NEPA Review of Project-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/25/2015

Read the full comment letter here The comment letter responds to the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s Draft Guidance on National…

Comment

Public Comment to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 03/17/2015

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.

Consumer Product Safety

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CEI, ICLE, TechFreedom File Comments with FCC in MVPD Definition Proceeding

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 03/06/2015

Full Document Available in PDF In this proceeding, the Commission proposes to expand the definition of a multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD)…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

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CEI and Free-Market Colleagues Comments to EPA on Clean Power Plan

  • 12/02/2014

View comments by CEI's Marlo Lewis and 11 free-market groups View comments by CEI's William Yeatman The Competitive Enterprise Institute's Marlo Lewis…

Comment

Comments to NHTSA Regarding Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 10/20/2014

Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”), I respectfully submit these comments in response to the…

Automobiles and Roads

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CEI Comments in DOT-OST-2014-0056

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 09/24/2014

View the Full Comments Here The Department of Transportation is using consumer complaints over baggage and other fees as a pretext to…

Transportation

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The Federal Office of No

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 08/26/2014

Read the Full Comments Here President Barack Obama’s 2014 State of the Union Address capped many weeks during which he and his…

Regulatory Reform

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Comcast-TWC Merger Comments to FCC

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Radia
  • 08/26/2014

View Full Comments Here In comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission yesterday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute urged the FCC to unconditionally…

Tech and Telecom

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CEI Comments to the Federal Communication Commission on Open Internet

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 07/21/2014

Full Commentary Here Government regulation of infrastructure delays innovation. Read our full comments to the FCC on the proposed Open Internet here.

Comment

Comments to USDOT in the matter of Use of Mobile Wireless Devices for Voice Calls on Aircraft

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 03/26/2014

Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”), I respectfully submit these comments in response…

Transportation

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Comments to the FDA on Trans Fats

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 03/11/2014

Read the full comments here Comments to the Food and Drug Administration on their tenative…

Comment

CEI Comments to the IRS on Proposed New Restrictions on Candidate-Related Activities of 501(c)(4) Organizations

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 02/27/2014

Full Document Available in PDF The Treasury Department’s proposed rule has been…

Free Speech

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Free Market Organizations’ Letter to Office of Management and Budget on Social Cost of Carbon

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 02/27/2014

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…

Climate

Comment

Myron Ebell’s Testimony to Ohio Senate

  • 02/18/2014

Full Document available in PDF.

Comment

Comments to the Federal Communications Commission in the matter of Expanding Access to Mobile Wireless Services Onboard Aircraft

  • By: Marc Scribner, Ryan Radia
  • 02/14/2014

Full…

Aviation

Comment

Comments to the SEC by John Berlau on Crowdfunding

  • By: John Berlau
  • 02/06/2014

In comments submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), CEI Senior Fellow John Berlau warns that new SEC rules impacting crowdfunding could…

Financial Regulation

Comment

CEI comments on Dodd-Frank proposed diversity statement Docket No OP-1465

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 02/05/2014

Banking and Finance

Comment

Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA Senators’ Amicus Brief

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/18/2013

Full Document Available in PDF…

Climate

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Comments to the Department of Agriculture on the Arctic Apple

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 12/17/2013

Full Document Available in PDF We are a group of legal scholars and practicing attorneys who…

Health and Safety

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Balance of Competences Review: Trade and Investment

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 12/05/2013

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…

Trade and International

Comment

Testimony on NPS Closures Before House Oversight and Natural Resources Committees

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 10/16/2013

Full Document Available in PDF Chairman Issa and Chairman Hastings, thank you for inviting me to testify today on the National Park…

Energy and Environment

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FOIA Requests to Agencies on Government Shutdown Policies

  • By: Christine Hall
  • 10/10/2013

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…

Law and Litigation

Comment

Comment Letter on LLF Petition for Reconsideration, Docket No. EERE-BT-PET-0043, September 16, 2013

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/18/2013

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…

Energy

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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

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/17/2013

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…

Climate

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