News Release
June 11, 2013
WASHINGTON (June 11, 2013) -– The R Street Institute today joined a coalition of nearly 100 technology firms and civil liberties organizations who are calling on Congress to investigate domestic spying by the National Security Agency and other federal agencies. Spurred by recent revelations that the NSA has been conducting a massive, secretive surveillance campaign [...]
Blog Post
June 11, 2013
The U.S. Senate is close to voting on a bill promulgated by the Judiciary Committee that would, among other things, raise the H-1B visa cap from 65,000 annual visas to 115,000.While insiders are still taking bets on whether the measure has a chance to pass (Josh Barro might be the first to predict definitively that [...]
Blog Post
June 11, 2013
The Texas Legislature has sent a bill to Gov. Perry’s desk that would require a warrant to open any email, no matter how old the email is. Ars Technica has the story: On Tuesday, the Texas bill (HB 2268) was sent to Gov. Perry’s desk, and he has until June 16, 2013 to sign it or veto [...]
Policy Study
June 11, 2013
This paper by R Street President Eli Lehrer, which originally appeared in the Spring 2013 issue of the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum, focuses on the SmarterSafer.org coalition and how its success in helping to craft and ultimately enact the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 demonstrates how traditionally conservative free-market groups and [...]
Blog Post
June 11, 2013
In the wake of the revelations about PRISM and National Security Agency spying, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has introduced a bill, S. 1121, or “A bill to stop the National Security Agency from spying on citizens of the United States and for other purposes.” We unfortunately don’t have the text yet, as the bill was [...]
Blog Post
June 11, 2013
Senate passes five-year Farm Bill in 66-27 vote: The Hill More states experimenting with social impact bonds: Washington Post State Sen. Fasano threatens hearings over Florida Cat Fund hiking rates on condos: Miami Herald DOE raises estimated cost of carbon from $22 to $36 a ton: Washington Post Internet sales tax could hit many more [...]
Blog Post
June 10, 2013
Last week, civil liberties journalist Glenn Greenwald broke open the story of the National Security Agency grabbing everyone’s call information in a massive surveillance program called PRISM, which sounds like a Bond villain’s pet project. What you might not know is that, while the project is unethical, it’s actually legal via an outdated piece of [...]
Blog Post
June 10, 2013
Ronald Reagan was probably the last really great leader to serve as president of the United States. Although disdained and considered a dangerous ideologue by most elites while he was in office, history has given him a pretty good verdict. Reagan restored growth, won the Cold War and, when circumstances forced him to, even stabilized [...]
Blog Post
June 10, 2013
World Bank study finds 40 national governments have implemented carbon pricing: Washington Post How Amazon stands to gain from the Internet sales tax: Seattle Times Loophole in S.C. catastrophe savings accounts allows post-storm contributions: Post and Courier Catastrophe modeler provides satellite maps for European floods: Insurance Journal
Op Ed
The Weekly Standard • June 7, 2013
Mention Ronald Reagan to an avowed environmentalist, and you’ll generally elicit a groan. In the conventional telling, the Gipper appointed right-wing extremists to key environmental positions and proceeded to give timber companies and energy interests a free hand to despoil nature. Had Congress not stopped him, the tale goes, all of the environmental progress of [...]
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