Today, the American Consumer Institute joined a large coalition of groups raising concerns over potential regulations that would significantly expand the Department of Commerce’s discretion in blocking technology transactions and purchases. The letter is available online.
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Coalition Letter Sent to Congress: Calls for the End of the OFR
Today, a coalition letter was sent to Congress expressing support for a proposal to eliminate the Office of Financial Research (OFR), a duplicative and opaque agency created from the Dodd-Frank Act. The letter can be viewed here.
Coalition Letter on Gene Replacement Therapy
Cell and gene therapies have the potential to save lives and can offset significant direct and indirect costs to our healthcare system, thus saving taxpayers money in the long run, according to this broad coalition letter.
Coalition Letter to Congress: Time is Right for Tax Reform 2.0
Dear Speaker Ryan and Chairman Brady: On behalf of the undersigned organizations, we write in support of House passage of Tax Reform 2.0. This proposal is split into three pieces of legislation: H.R. 6760, the Protecting Family and Small Business Tax Cuts Act, H.R. 6757, the Family Savings Act, and H.R. 6756, the American Innovation […]
Sixty Organizations Sign Coalition Letter Calling on the Protection of Free Speech
Today, a coalition letter was sent to President Trump and Secretary Mnuchin calling for an initiation of a rulemaking to protect the IRS from targeting nonprofit organizations based on their ideology. The coalition letter can be viewed here.
Letter to Congress: Clarify Laws on the Use of Cloud Data
Can the U.S. government issue a legal warrant to require a U.S. company to retrieve overseas communications data from its foreign customers? As consumer information resides in the cloud, overseas or domestically, and in various electronic forms, establishing what access the government should have to private communications and how the government should work with its […]
Coalition Calls on Congress to Rescind FCC Privacy Rules
The following letter to Congress urges them to use the authority provided in the Congressional Review Act to rescind the Federal Communications Commission’s Broadband Privacy Order — Coalition Letter.
Groups Recommend IP Guidelines to Congress
The American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research, along and a broad coalition of organizations, sent a letter to Congress recommending intellectual property (IP) guidelines.
Coalition Letter Opposes Federal Ban on Online Gambling
Download the letter to Congress here.