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How Repeal of #NeverNeeded Regulations Can Help Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis
A number of factors are combining to stress the American economy in the spring of 2020—the global and domestic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, an…
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Free to Prosper
CEI’s Agenda for the 116th Congress highlights specific steps lawmakers can take to rein in unlawful overreach by executive agencies, reduce the costs of federal regulations,…
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Top 5 Things Congress Should Consider During Lame-Duck Session
View the document here During Congress’ lame-duck session, both Republicans and Democrats will dig into a number of stalled pieces of legislation…
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Avoiding the Regulatory Cliff
Full Document Available in PDF A Bipartisan Agenda to Restore Limited Government and Revive America's Economy Whether you are new to…
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State of the Union Live Blog 2013
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A Timeline of the EPA’s “Richard Windsor” Email Scandal
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Did You Vote Today? How Long Did It Take You?
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Liberate to Stimulate
We at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) have spent 26 years raising the saliency of regulations on our economy. Taxes and spending receive plenty of…
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One Nation, Ungovernable?
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Recognize the Role of Private Enterprise in Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Cybersecurity
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Resist Over-Caution on Nanotechnology and other Frontier Sciences
Full Document Available in PDF Nanotechnology is the cutting-edge science and…
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Protect Incentives for Pharmaceutical Innovation
Full Document Available in PDF In recent years, Congress has faced mounting public pressure…
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Enhance Auto Safety
Full Document Available in PDF Automotive safety is the primary mission of the National Highway Traffic…
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Ensure Consumers’ Access to Bottled Water
Full Document Available in PDF Bottled water offers many important benefits—including portability, emergency…
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Purify Federal Water Policies
Full Document Available in PDF Drinking Water. Drinking water policy should focus on how best…
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Recognize the Deadly Effects of Over-Regulating Medicines and Medical Devices
Full Document Available in PDF Over the past…
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Reject the Precautionary Principle, a Threat to Technological Progress
Full Document Available in PDF Increasingly, governments and environmental activists…
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Reform Wetlands Policies
Full Document Available in PDF Wetlands regulations do a poor job of protecting wetlands habitat. Much…
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Rethink Water Rights Policies
Full Document Available in PDF Battles over limited water supplies in the United States and…
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Recognize the Elitist Nature of “Anti- Sprawl” Measures
Full Document Available in PDF For the greater part of the last…
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Trash Counterproductive Waste Disposal Policies
Full Document Available in PDF Solid waste. Much of the nation’s current solid waste…
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Develop New Approaches to Preserve Ocean Resources
Full Document Available in PDF The world’s fisheries face severe decline. Indeed,…
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Clarify the Role of Invasive Species
Full Document Available in PDF In the past, policies addressing problem plants…
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Protect Endangered Species
Full Document Available in PDF The Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 is bad for…
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Embrace Private Conservation of Land and Natural Resources
Full Document Available in PDF Private stewardship and markets play a…
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Restore the Constitutional Right to Property
Full Document Available in PDF The right to property is an essential part of a free society, and widespread private property ownership…
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Facilitate Electricity Competition
Full Document Available in PDF A fully responsive electricity industry would use active demand and…
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Resist New Burdens on the Transportation Sector
Full Document Available in PDF The transportation industries—airline, railroad, shipping, and trucking—are…
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Counteract Politicization of Federal Science Policy
Full Document Available in PDF The federal politicization of science in…
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Advance a Global Pro-Trade Agenda
Full Document Available in PDF Increasing liberalization of world trade is one…
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Protect Free Speech by Rejecting Content Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF In recent years, the First Amendment’s…
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Avoid Hampering the Internet through Net Neutrality Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF Some observers have speculated that 2009…
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Protect and Enhance Federalism
Full Document Available in PDF The Framers of the Constitution intended federalism to act as…
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Study and Understand Corporate Social Responsibility
Full Document Available in PDF Congress should study the confusion created in the…
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Clarify the Role of Intellectual Property in the Economy
Full Document Available in PDF Copyright and patent laws protect…
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Keep Government’s Hands off the Net and E-Commerce
Full Document Available in PDF As a network of networks, the…
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Allow Immigrants to Help Fill America’s Need for Workers
Congress should implement more flexible, less restrictive immigration laws, with the ultimate goal of an immigration system that lets law-abiding workers from anywhere fill any…
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Let Market Forces Regulate Internet Gambling
Full Document Available in PDF Americans like to gamble; in 48 states they…
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Protect Sensitive and Disaster-Prone Natural Areas
Full Document Available in PDF Overdevelopment of wetlands, barrier islands, old growth forests,…
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Phase Out the National Flood Insurance Program
Full Document Available in PDF Since it emerged in its current form…
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Encourage Competition between Different Types of Depository Institutions
Full Document Available in PDF Three major types of depository institutions—banks,…
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Liberalize Homeowners, Automobile, Life, and Commercial Insurance Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF A confusing patchwork of state-level…
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Develop Smart Policies to Help Homeowners Deal With Natural Catastrophes
Full Document Available in PDF Natural catastrophes such as…
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Forge a Bipartisan Approach to End Corporate Welfare
Full Document Available in PDF One of government’s primary current undertakings…
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Avoid Privacy Regulation that Could Worsen Personal Security
Full Document Available in PDF There are two great ironies in…
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Avoid Extending Antitrust Regulation into New Competitive Realms
Full Document Available in PDF Over the past several decades, until…
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Allow Workers and Employers to Work without Burdensome Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF One of America’s greatest economic…
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Increase Access to Energy
Full Document Available in PDF Economic prosperity and our standard of living depend…
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Avoid Energy and Global Warming Policies that Pose More Risk than Global Warming
Full Document Available in PDF Although…