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Friday
Feb032012

CEI Today: Facebook, Chevy Volt Debacle, FDA Over-Regulation 

Friday, February 3, 2012
In the News Today

FACEBOOK VS. THE REGULATORS - JOHN BERLAU

Openmarket.org:
Facebook Filing Blasts Obama-Bush Overregulation of Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank

 

 

In his letter to prospective shareholders in the middle of the 201-page “Form S-1” that Facebook  filed yesterday afternoon to launch its much-anticipated initial public offering, company founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that one mission of Facebook is to “bring a more honest and transparent dialogue around government.”

In one important way, another section of the IPO already does so in communicating the incredible burdens on companies attempting to go public — burdens that create difficulties even for companies as big as Facebook and almost insurmountable for smaller firms.
> Read the full commentary on Openmarket.org
 
 

CHEVY VOLT FIRE DEBACLE - MARLO LEWIS

Globalwarming.org:
Update on Chevy Volt Hearing

 

Marlo Lewis provides detailed analysis of the contentious House investigation and hearing concerning the Chevy Volt debacle:

As noted here last week, the sparks flew at a Jan. 25 House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing titled “The Volt Fire: What Did NHTSA Know and When Did They Know It?“ Three witnesses testified: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Administrator David Strickland, General Motors (GM) CEO Daniel Akerson, and John German of the International Council on Clean Transportation. My earlier post was based on newspaper accounts of the hearing. Over the weekend, I watched the archived video of the proceeding and read the testimonies and Committee Staff Report. Here are the key facts and conclusions as I see them:
> Globalwarming.org: Update on Chevy Volt Hearing

> Read more on energy policy at Globalwarming.org

 

 

CEI Podcast for February 2, 2012: The FDA’s Latest Power Grab

Fellow in Consumer Policy Studies Michelle Minton breaks down the FDA’s behind-the-scenes push to regulate dietary supplements nearly as strictly as prescription drugs. >Listen at Libertyweek.org

CEI AT CPAC!

 

CEI is a co-sponsor of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Thursday, February 9 to Saturday, February 11 in Washington, D.C.

CEI will have a table in the exhibit hall of the hotel, the Marriot Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC.  Please stop by booth 1509 and say hello if you are attending CPAC.

Visit
Conservative.org/cpac for the full conference agenda.



 

Ten Thousand Commandments

By Wayne Crews

Welcome to The Other National Debt -- The Cost of Regulation


-> Read Today's Decrees

 

CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government.  For more information about CEI, please visit our website, cei.org, and blogs, Globalwarming.org and OpenMarket.org.  Follow CEI on Twitter! Twitter.com/ceidotorg.

Wednesday
Feb012012

CEI Today: Energy & gov't transparency, FDA over-reach, CEI at CPAC 

Wednesday, February 1, 2012
In the News Today


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CEI IN THE NEWS

 THE "FRED WEEKLY"

ENERGY & GOV'T TRANSPARENCY - WILLIAM YEATMAN

Globalwarming.org:
What Is “Open” and “Transparent” Obama Administration Hiding on Stream Buffer Rule?

 

While environmentalists loathe coal in general, they hate especially coal produced via mountaintop removal mining. Unfortunately for them, the mining practice, which is essential to the economies of West Virginia and Kentucky, is sanctioned by state and federal law. In 1977, the Congress enacted the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, legislation that created a regulatory regime for surface mining practices like mountaintop mining.

Now, thirty-five years after the Congress endorsed mountaintop mining, President Barack Obama is poised to radically reinterpret SMCRA—legislation that authorizes mountaintop mining—such that the law would ban it. This contortion of legal logic is an affront to Congressional intent.
>View the commentary on Globalwarming.org


> Read more by William Yeatman
> Read more on energy policy at Globalwarming.org

FDA & DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS - MICHELLE MINTON

The Hill's Congress Blog:
The FDA has it dead wrong

 

When policy makers responsible for writing a bill send a letter telling an enforcement agency that it is out of line, one would hope the agency would sit up and listen. This week, Senators Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) wrote to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) claiming that the agency's recently released guidelines on dietary supplements undermines the statutory framework for regulating such supplements, as outlined in a bill crafted by the two Senators. If the outcry in the supplement industry and consumer advocates hasn't got the attention of FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, perhaps the Senators' letter will. > View the full commentary on The Hill's Congress Blog


> Read more by Michelle Minton, CEI Fellow in Consumer Policy Studies



 

CEI AT CPAC!

 

CEI is a co-sponsor of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Thursday, February 9 to Saturday, February 11 in Washington, D.C.

CEI will have a table in the exhibit hall of the hotel, the Marriot Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC.  Please stop by booth 1509 and say hello if you are attending CPAC.

Also, see CEI's Vincent Vernuccio talk labor policy on a panel entitled, Return of Big Labor: What Can We Learn from Wisconsin & Ohio?

Thurday, February 9
11:15am - 12:00pm

Visit
Conservative.org/cpac for the full conference agenda.



 

Ten Thousand Commandments

By Wayne Crews

Welcome to The Other National Debt -- The Cost of Regulation


-> Read Today's Decrees

 

CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government.  For more information about CEI, please visit our website, cei.org, and blogs, Globalwarming.org and OpenMarket.org.  Follow CEI on Twitter! Twitter.com/ceidotorg.

Tuesday
Jan172012

NH HB1650 'MADE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE' LAW WILL ENSURE CONSUMER FOOD CHOICES

HB 1650 will help protect New Hampshire growers from overreaching federal regulations

CONCORD, N.H.—A bill working its way through the New Hampshire House of Representatives would jumpstart local food production and stimulate small business growth across the state.

This bill, HB 1650-FN, exempts food grown or produced and then sold within the state from federal regulations by establishing a “Made in New Hampshire” brand under state regulations. The brand could be leveraged by small, local businesses to increase sales and promote locally grown products.

“Our state depends on the economic vitality of small businesses, and a one-size-fits-all approach forced on the state from Washington would put New Hampshire out of the farm business,” said Rep. Josh Davenport, R-Newmarket, the prime sponsor of the bill. “The state of New Hampshire is perfectly capable of ensuring the safety of its own small farms and food production businesses. Common sense takes care of problems much more efficiently and effectively than central planning in Washington.”

Ever since its earliest days, New Hampshire has produced agricultural products, such as fresh corn, apples and tomatoes. Some farmers even raise cattle, pigs and chickens. Even as major production moved to wider spaces out west, the state has still held on to its agrarian base. New Hampshire citizens know what they're getting through their local farms and they know their local farmers will always be there for them.

Just last year, the federal Food Safety Modernization Act used the rhetoric of food safety to require growers with more than $500,000 in revenue to register their food businesses or face 10 years in prison. The protectionist law, a gift to large industrial farmers, allows the Food and Drug Administration to force recalls of food and shut down food production facilities. The law also regulates seed cleaning, which may increase the prevalence of genetically modified seeds. If heirloom seeds consequently become more rare, farmers may have to license more genetically modified seeds each year at major expense, and farming already has a small profit margin.

“This federal law is blatant corporate welfare that could damage New Hampshire's ability to produce its own food supply for generations,” Davenport said. "While the federal law appears to have exceptions for small farmers, some of the nuances of the law, such as the requirement for seed-cleaning inspections, will eventually allow powerful corporate farms to weed out their smaller competitors, leaving the population vulnerable and dependent on genetically modified, commercially produced food shipped in from somewhere else.”

HB 1650, the bill introduced by Rep. Davenport to address problems with the federal law, would allow farmers in New Hampshire who sell only to in-state consumers to use a “Made in New Hampshire” label, which would let buyers know that the product falls only under New Hampshire regulations. Local regulators would not be allowed to enact stricter regulations than the state, ensuring that in-state food businesses are lean, productive and safe.

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About Rep. Joshua Davenport


State Rep. Joshua Davenport
, a Republican from Newmarket, is focused on legislation to advance the ideals of lower taxes and regulation and limited constitutional government.

Saturday
Dec242011

CEI Weekly: Merry Christmas! 

Friday, December 23, 2011

 

 

 

Feature: Watch our short Christmas video, above!

Merry Christmas!

 

As we at CEI prepare for the holidays, we've noticed that most of our favorite Christmas movies make capitalists out to be villains. So we put together this short video as a reminder of the Yuletide benefits of the market. Watch above, or at this link.

 

SHAPING THE DEBATE

 

The FDA vs. Commercial Speech

Greg Conko and Henry I. Miller's article in Reason Magazine

 

Create Wealth, Not Jobs

Iain Murray and David Bier's op-ed in The Washington Times

 

Behind the UAW's Aw Shucks Smile

Vincent Vernuccio's op-ed in The American Spectator

 

Grinches and Scrooges Dislike Facebook This Christmas

Wayne Crews' column on Forbes

 

Obama's Big Labor Wins a Big One

Ivan Osorio and Russ Brown's op-ed in The American Spectator

 

Dead People Get Lots of Other Entitlement Benefits

Hans Bader's letter to the editor in The Washington Examiner

 

Government Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Itself

Wayne Crews' citation on FoxBusiness.com

 

Texts, Lies, and Distracted Driving

Marc Scribner's citation on The Volokh Conspiracy

 

AT&T Admits Defeat on T-Mobile Takeover

Ryan Radia's citation on Ars Technica

 

The Death of Kim Jong Il, the Unraveling of North Korea and More

Iain Murray and David Bier's citation in The Washington Post Blogs

 

                     

 

 

CEI PODCAST

 

December 22, 2011 -- The Keystone XL Pipeline

 

Politicians usually love infrastructure projects. But politics has delayed the privately owned Keystone XL pipeline’s construction for three years now. Research Associate David Bier explains the reasons behind the delay, and points out that the pipeline’s real benefit isn’t the jobs it would create; it’s the wealth and value it would create.

 

 

BEST OF THE BLOGS

 

2011 Brought Lots of Good News for Salt Lovers

By Greg Conko

 

Butter-nomics: Protectionism and Food Shortages

By Daniel Rivera

 

Another Year of Incandescence

By Brian McGraw

 

This Week in the Congress

By Myron Ebell

 

 

 

Friday
Oct282011

CEI Daily - BPA and the FDA 

BPA

 

A new study suggests that children exposed to bisphenol A (BPA) may be hyperactive.

 

Director of Risk and Environmental Studies Angela Logomasini comments.

 

"[E]ven the authors — who apparently really wanted to find something condemning — note that 'the clinical relevance of these findings is unclear at this point,' and the potential 'benefits' of reducing exposure to BPA-containing food packaging and other products is also 'unclear.' The only real conclusion the authors could draw was that 'findings presented here warrant additional research' — a plea found in most research articles. It might as well say: 'mail the check to…' But even the need for more research should be questioned. BPA is one of the most studied chemicals and the body of research warrants little concern. See CEI’s study on the topic. Research dollars wold probably be better spent elsewhere."

 
 

FDA

 

The Prescription Drug User Fee Act allows the FDA to charge pharmaceutical companies for the regulatory process.

 

Senior Fellow Gregory Conko comments.

 

"These fees now account for about a quarter of FDA’s total budget, and close to two-thirds of the drug and biologics regulation budget, which means that Congress views reauthorization as a 'must pass' bill. So, every five years since PDUFA was first enacted in 1992, Congress has seen reauthorization as an opportunity to force through certain other FDA regulatory measures that may or may not be able to pass on their own. Usually, Congress just lards on loads of additional regulatory hurdles. But, sometimes, such as in 1997′s FDA Modernization Act, some of these changes are actually moderately positive."