Competitive Enterprise Institute
Abbreviation | CEI |
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Formation | 1984 |
Founder | Washington, DC 20036 |
President and CEO | Kent Lassman |
Revenue (2015) | $7,703,763[1] |
Expenses (2015) | $7,811,133[1] |
Website | cei |
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Conservatism in the United States |
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is a
According to the 2017 Global Go To
Policy areas
Energy and environment
Academic research has identified CEI as one of the think tanks funded to overturn the
CEI is an opponent of government action by the
In May 2006, CEI's global warming policy activities attracted attention as it embarked upon an ad campaign with two television commercials.
In 2009, CEI's director of energy and global warming policy told The Washington Post, "The only thing that's been demonstrated to reduce emissions is economic collapse".[12] In 2014, CEI sued the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy over a video that linked the polar vortex to climate change.[13]
Regulatory reform
CEI advocates for regulatory reform on a range of policy issues, including energy, environment, business and finance, labor, technology and telecommunications, transportation, and food and drug regulation.[14]
Its annual survey of the federal regulatory state "Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State," documents the size, scope, and cost of federal regulations, and how the U.S. regulatory burden affects American consumers, businesses, and the economy.[15] CEI's Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. coined the phrase "regulatory dark matter," referencing astrophysics to distinguish between ordinary government regulations or "visible matter," and "regulatory dark matter," which consists of "thousands of executive branch and federal agency proclamations and issuances, including memos, guidance documents, bulletins, circulars and announcements with practical regulatory effect."[15]
Technology and telecommunications
In 2015, CEI filed an
CEI has argued against using antitrust regulation to break up big technology companies such as Facebook and Google.[17][18]
Capitalism
CEI has a longstanding project to recapture what they term "the moral legitimacy of capitalism" through research, writing, events, and other outreach activities.[19][20][21] In 2019, CEI's vice president for Strategy Iain Murray argued, in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, that advocates of capitalism and free markets had taken the support of social conservatives for granted.[22]
Legal advocacy
The Competitive Enterprise Institute "is one of a small number of think tanks that have a litigation arm to their organization, according to an editorial in the Wall Street Journal."[23]
Center for Class Action Fairness (former project)
From 2015 to 2019, the
CEI and Frank argued Frank v. Gaos before the U.S. Supreme Court on October 31, 2018, opposing a proposed class action settlement involving Google, who paid out an $8.5 million settlement including $6 million in cy-près funds and more than $2 million for class-action lawyers. Class members were not awarded any part of the settlement.[26]
In 2015, CEI and Frank successfully appealed a class action settlement in a case about the length of
Challenges to the Affordable Care Act
CEI funded and coordinated King v. Burwell and Halbig v. Burwell, two lawsuits that challenged the Internal Revenue Service's implementation of the Affordable Care Act.[28] The strategy of bringing such lawsuits was pioneered by Michael S. Greve, former chairman of CEI's board of directors, who stated: "This bastard [the act] has to be killed as a matter of political hygiene. I do not care how this is done, whether it's dismembered, whether we drive a stake through its heart, whether we tar and feather it, and drive it out of town, whether we strangle it."[29][30] The King v. Burwell suit alleged that the IRS's implementation violated the statute and sought to block "a major portion of Obamacare: the subsidies that more than 6 million middle-income people, across more than 30 states, now receive to buy health insurance."[28] CEI general counsel Sam Kazman argued in a USA Today op-ed that the disputed IRS rule "raises a basic issue that goes far beyond Obamacare: Do agencies have to follow the laws enacted by Congress, or can they rewrite them?"[31] The case made its way to the Supreme Court, which is a 6–3 decision rejected the challenge and upheld the ACA subsidies.[28]
Challenges to the Dodd-Frank Act and financial regulation
In 2012, the CEI, along with the conservative activist group
CEI events
Every year CEI hosts an annual dinner gala and presents the
Year | Winner | Notes |
2001 | Stephen Moore | |
2002 | Robert L. Bradley Jr. | |
2003 | Bjørn Lomborg | |
2004 | no award | honored Norman Borlaug |
2005 | Barun Mitra | |
2006 | John Stossel | |
2007 | Indur M. Goklany | |
2008 | Václav Klaus | |
2009 | Richard Tren | |
2010 | Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick |
Joint award |
2011 | Robert J. Smith | |
2012 | Matt Ridley | |
2013 | Deirdre McCloskey | |
2014 | John Tierney | |
2015 | Vernon L. Smith | |
2016 | Bruce Yandle | |
2017 | Pierre Desrochers | |
2018 | Hernando de Soto |
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2019 | Johan Norberg | |
2020 | Steven Horwitz | |
2021 | William Easterly | |
2022 | Balaji Srinivasan |
CEI projects
Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellowship
In 1991, CEI established the
1993–1994 | Ronald Bailey |
1994–1995 | Michael Fumento |
1995–1996 | Michelle Malkin |
1996–1997 | James Bovard |
1997–1998 | Jesse Walker |
1999–2000 | Brian Doherty
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2000–2001 | Sean Paige |
2001–2002 | Eileen Ciesla-Norcross |
2002–2003 | Hugo Gurdon |
2003–2004 | Neil Hrab |
2004–2005 | John Berlau |
2005–2006 | Timothy P. Carney |
2006–2007 | Jeremy Lott |
2007–2008 | Lene Johansen |
2008–2009 | Silvia Santacruz |
2009–2010 | Ryan Young |
2010–2011 | Kathryn Ciano |
2011–2012 | Matt Patterson |
2012–2013 | Matthew Melchiorre |
2013–2014 | Bill Frezza |
2014–2015 | Carrie Sheffield |
Bureaucrash
Bureaucrash was a special outreach and activist project of CEI described as an international network of pro-freedom activists working to promote a political ideology based on personal and economic freedom. It conducted political activism using new media, creative marketing, and education campaigns. The project maintained a website (bureaucrash.com), which as of November 2023 is now only a web redirect to CEI's main website.
Funding
CEI is funded by donations from individuals, foundations and corporations.[35] Donors to CEI include a number of companies in the energy, technology, automotive, and alcohol and tobacco industries.[36]
CEI's revenues for the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2015, were $7.5 million against expenses of $7.4 million.[37] ExxonMobil Corporation was a donor to CEI, giving the group about $2 million over seven years.[38] In 2006, the company announced that it had ended its funding for the group.[39]
References
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- ^ "Energy and Environment". CEI.org. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
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- ^ Taft, Molly (2023-01-10). "Climate Deniers Try to 'Fact Check' Real Reporting". Gizmodo. Retrieved 2023-09-09.
- ^ Lassman, Kent (April 13, 2016). "CEI Will Surmount Crimethink Persecution". Competitive Enterprise Institute. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
- ^ "Consequences of Global Warming". NRDC. Retrieved 2011-08-25.
- ^ "streams.cei.org". Archived from the original on December 11, 2009. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
- ^ a b Bank, Justin (2006-05-26). "Scientist to CEI: You Used My Research to 'Confuse and Mislead'". FactCheck.org. Archived from the original on 2006-05-30. Retrieved 2006-05-30.
- ^ [1] Archived July 4, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Europe Advises U.S. Officials on Climate". The Washington Post. 2009-03-06. Retrieved 2015-03-11.
- ^ "US Civil Action No. 14-1806" (PDF). CEI.org. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ^ "About | Competitive Enterprise Institute". Cei.org. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
- ^ a b "Trump's team has detected the 'dark matter' of government regulation, meaning you ain't seen nothing yet". The Washington Post. 2017-02-01. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
- ^ "Amicus Brief: Congress Has Never Given FCC the Authority to Regulate the Internet | Competitive Enterprise Institute". Cei.org. 2015-08-06. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
- ^ "Antitrust: Freedom and Innovation Through Antitrust Reform". The Competitive Enterprise Institute advocates abolishing antitrust laws. Antitrust restricts the rights of individuals to determine with whom and under what circumstances they wish to deal. The real cost of antitrust is the innovation it prevents. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
- ^ "Breaking Up Platforms Has Sickening Implications". National Review. Mar 12, 2019. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
- ^ NW, 1310 L. Street; Washington, 7th Floor; Fax: 202-331-0640, DC 20005 Phone: 202-331-1010. "Center for Advancing Capitalism". Competitive Enterprise Institute. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
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- ^ "Venture Capitalist Warns Of Job Creation Myths". www.wbur.org. 4 October 2011. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
- ^ Murray, Iain (Aug 19, 2019). "Opinion | Free-Marketeers Have Taken Social Conservatives for Granted". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 14, 2020 – via www.wsj.com.
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- ^ Tony Mauro and Marcia Coyle (7 January 2019). "Serial Adversaries at SCOTUS – Ted Frank's New Gig". Supreme Court Brief. Retrieved 26 March 2019. "Announcing Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute". Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute. 17 December 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ^ "Class Action Fairness | Competitive Enterprise Institute". Cei.org. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
- ^ Liptak, Adam (31 October 2018). "Supreme Court Weighs Google Settlement That Paid Class Members Nothing – The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
- ^ Gilbert, Sarah (2018-10-24). "INSIGHT: Before You Settle That Class Action, Remember the Footlong". News.bloomberglaw.com. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
- ^ a b c Sanger-Katz, Margot (25 June 2015). "Obamacare, Back at the Supreme Court: Frequently Asked Questions". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
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- ^ "Exxon Mobil softens its climate-change stance". Post-gazette.com. 2007-01-11. Retrieved 2011-08-25.
External links
- Official website
- CEI blog
- GlobalWarming.org Cooler Heads Coalition homepage
- EDIRC listing (provided by RePEc)
- Organizational Profile – National Center for Charitable Statistics (Urban Institute)