CEI Today: Legal Immigration, Sunshine Week, CEI at CPAC, and more!

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March 20 Hill Briefing: Getting Legal Immigration Right

The immigration debate in Washington needs to move past the current illegal immigration problem to the future. If Congress is to seriously consider comprehensive immigration reform, it must address America’s broken legal immigration system. The system is beset by arbitrary restrictions, time constraints, and quotas. Real reform must address these issues.

SUNSHINE WEEK - Chris Horner CEI.org: Administration Brags About FOIA; CEI Experience Tells Different Story This week is "Sunshine Week," a national initiative dedicated to open government. In the spirit of the occasion, the White House is publishing a series of posts demonstrating "the Obama Administration's continued commitment to open and accessible government." Interestingly, Monday's post focused on "progress made improving the administration of the FOIA [Freedom of Information Act]." As detailed here, CEI is currently receiving tranches of emails from the EPA as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request (and subsequent lawsuit) targeting emails from now-former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's alias "Richard Windsor" email account. Most of the emails we have received are heavily redacted.

CEI at CPAC - MARCH 14 - 16 CEI is a co-sponsor of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), March 14-16 near Washington, D.C. CEI scholars will participate in four CPAC panels and other events. THURSDAY 2:00 pm - Book signing - CEI Vice President Iain Murray will signing copies of his best-selling book, Stealing You Blind: How Government Fat Cats Are Getting Rich Off of You 3:00 pm - Re-Energizing America - energy policy 3:00 pm - Lessons They Have Learned and We Haven’t: The Europeanization of America - intersection of American and European politics and policy 6:00 pm - A Rainbow on the Right: Growing the Coalition, Bringing Tolerance Out of the Closet FRIDAY 11:00 am - How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love Plastic Water Bottles, Fracking, Genetically Modified Food, & Big Gulp Sodas - political attacks on consumer choice and economic freedom SATURDAY 10:45 am - In the Tank: The Smartest Guys in the Room - the future role of think tanks in America's changing political landscape > cei.org/events > facebook.com/ceidotorg

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