News Release
April 25, 2013
WASHINGTON (April 25, 2013) – The R Street Institute today commended the Senate Judiciary Committee for reporting out the most significant update to U.S. electronic privacy law in the past quarter century. Under S. 607, sponsored by Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, Fourth Amendment protections codified by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act [...]
Blog Post
April 25, 2013
Congress may exempt itself from Obamacare: Politico Senate panel this morning unanimously passed the Leahy-Lee electronic privacy reform bill: Senate Judiciary Committee Michigan panel hosts a hearing today on no-fault reform: House Insurance Committee Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Senate will take up the Farm Bill in May: The Hill Iowa State economist Bruce [...]
Op Ed
Regulation • April 24, 2013
The following was co-authored with Sam Batkins, director of regulatory policy at the American Action Forum. It is not uncommon for presidential administrations to issue a large number of regulations in the interregnum between Election Day and the inauguration. These are often called “midnight regulations” because, for outgoing presidents, they are a final effort to [...]
Blog Post
April 24, 2013
As legislative work picks up in earnest on Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s plan to reform the state’s woeful no-fault auto insurance system, we wanted to call attention to a less-noticed provision of the proposal that could nonetheless have a significant impact on runaway costs in the Wolverine State. While the most noteworthy and contentious plank [...]
Blog Post
April 24, 2013
Yesterday’s hack of the Associated Press Twitter account briefly erased $200 billion in market value: Wall Street Journal Left-right coalition pushes for property insurance reform in Florida: Tallahassee Democrat George Mason’s Bryan Caplan on why free-market advocates need to take unemployment seriously: EconLog Bill introduced to end wasteful Brazil Cotton Institute payments: Rep. Ron Kind [...]
Op Ed
4% Growth • April 23, 2013
Growing up I attended a religious high school, which I found as enjoyable as a daily visit to the dentist. Nevertheless my parents sent me there because the school was academically rigorous. I struggled through classes, but my GPA salvation came via my ability to ace all religion classes, required every semester. The religion courses [...]
Policy Brief
April 23, 2013
April 22, 2013 The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy Chairman Senate Judiciary Committee The Honorable Charles Grassley Ranking Member Senate Judiciary Committee Dear Chairman Leahy and Ranking Member Grassley, We, the undersigned companies and organizations, are writing to express our support for Chairman Leahy’s and Sen. Lee’s ECPA Amendments Act, S. 607, which the Committee will [...]
Blog Post
April 23, 2013
Conservatives are spearheading criminal justice reform in the states: Washington Free Beacon The Internet sales tax will hit consumers: The Foundry Daily Beast’s Megan McArdle asks, how much did shutting down Boston cost?: The Daily Beast The Tax Policy Center finds Obama budget raises taxes on poor and middle class: Tax Policy Center Environmental Working [...]
Blog Post
April 23, 2013
As the intense debate over S. 743, the so-called “Marketplace Fairness Act,” progresses in the Senate, Internet activists and privacy advocates should remember that the MFA isn’t the only important piece of Internet legislation being considered by the chamber this week. Last Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee began consideration of S. 607, the Electronic Communications [...]
Op Ed
4% Growth Project • April 23, 2013
The New York Times reports that the EU Parliament has elected to not remove carbon tax credits from the market, despite the price plunging from a peak of nearly €30 per ton to below €3 at present. The reason for the decline in price is that economic activity in the European Union has decreased markedly [...]
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