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Ensure Consumers’ Access to Bottled Water
Liberate to Stimulate Index Bottled water offers many important benefits— including portability, emergency applications, and convenience. The bottled water industry had been…
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Enhance Auto Safety
Liberate to Stimulate Index Automotive safety is the primary mission of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). In recent decades, however,…
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Improve Food Safety and Quality through Greater Information, Consumer Choice, and Legal Accountability
Liberate to Stimulate Index Few issues are as important to consumers as the safety and quality of their food—from microbial contaminants to…
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Protect Incentives for Pharmaceutical Innovation
Liberate to Stimulate Index In recent years, Congress has faced mounting public pressure to “do something” about the rapidly rising prices of…
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Avoid Hindering the Internet’s Evolution through Net Neutrality Regulation
Liberate to Stimulate Index In 2010, Congress failed to enact legislation authorizing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to enforce network neutrality rules.
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Advance a Global Pro-Trade Agenda
Liberate to Stimulate Index Increasing liberalization of world trade is a key factor behind the dramatic increase in global prosperity since the…
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Rein in the $1.75 Trillion Regulatory State
Liberate to Stimulate Index Regulations are frequently anti-competitive and anti-consumer. They cost consumers hundreds of billions of dollars every year. Policy makers…
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Avoid Energy and Global Warming Policies that Pose Greater Risks than Global Warming
Liberate to Stimulate Index Global warming has been described as the greatest threat facing mankind, but the policies designed to address global…
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Recognize the Value of Hedge Funds and Private Equity for Entrepreneurs and Shareholders
Liberate to Stimulate Index Hedge funds and private equity are vehicles for wealthy investors to take risks and potentially reap high returns.
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Reform Federal Agriculture Programs
Liberate to Stimulate Index With America’s economy struggling to roar back to strong growth and a deficit approaching $1 trillion, policy makers…
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Free Smaller Companies to Go Public by Rolling Back Burdensome Sarbanes-Oxley Accounting Rules
Liberate to Stimulate Index In CEI’s last Agenda for Congress, we recommended that “smaller public companies be exempt from Sarbanes-Oxley’s Section 404.”…
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Encourage Credit Access Innovation
Liberate to Stimulate Index The abuses of the subprime crisis have made it all too easy to overlook the myriad…
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Reining in America’s Regulatory Leviathan: America Gets a Second Chance
Liberate to Stimulate Index We at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) have spent 26 years raising the saliency of regulations on our…
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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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The Limitations of Public-Private Partnerships
Government at all levels in the United States has been slowly moving away from grand central planning schemes and toward markets. One result has been…
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Recognize the Role of Private Enterprise in Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Cybersecurity
Full Document Available in PDF…
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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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Improve Food Safety and Quality though Greater Information, Consumer Choice, and Legal Accountability
Full Document Available in PDF Few…
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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,…