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Sep 30, 2026
Dan PriestHOST
Our next guest will help us explore how to balance those demands while protecting innovation.
Dan PriestHOST
Jessica Melugin directs the Center for Technology and Innovation at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, CEI, a DC think tank that focuses on tech issues and advises Congress and international legislators on AI policy.
Dan PriestHOST
So let's get into it.
Dan PriestHOST
Welcome, Jessica.
Jessica MeluginGUEST
Once you're in technology policy over the last few years, you're going to go in the AI direction.
Jessica MeluginGUEST
Obviously, everybody knows whatever you're doing, it's a big part of their news cycle.
Jessica MeluginGUEST
But I work at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and we're a free market think tank in Washington, D.C. We don't work on social issues.
Jessica MeluginGUEST
We keep it to the economic issues.
Andrew LangerGUEST
Quick 10 seconds on this.
Andrew LangerGUEST
The CEI dinner, the Competitive Enterprise Institute annual dinner is always the best.
Andrew LangerGUEST
First of all, it's the only gala dinner that I'm literally excited to go to every year.
Andrew LangerGUEST
It's always fun.
Sheldon RichmanGUEST
When, when, uh, when NAFTA was being proposed, there was a split among libertarians, even organizations.
Sheldon RichmanGUEST
Cato was for NAFTA, but the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which still exists-
Chris BakerHOST
Yeah
Sheldon RichmanGUEST
... which was founded by a great guy, Fred Smith-
DashaNARRATOR
The Biden administration quickly ditched that reform in 2021.
DashaNARRATOR
During the Biden years, guidance outstanding swelled to some 108,000 examples, according to Clyde Wayne Cruz Jr. of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
DashaNARRATOR
These are likely undercounts, given how hard it is to pin down exactly what counts as guidance.
DashaNARRATOR
The huge spending bills of recent years are invitations to more regulation by guidance as agencies set rules for vaguely defined new government programs.
DashaNARRATOR
The Biden administration quickly ditched that reform in 2021.
DashaNARRATOR
During the Biden years, guidance outstanding swelled to some 108,000 examples, according to Clyde Wayne Cruz Jr. of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
DashaNARRATOR
These are likely undercounts, given how hard it is to pin down exactly what counts as guidance.
DashaNARRATOR
The huge spending bills of recent years are invitations to more regulation by guidance as agencies set rules for vaguely defined new government programs.
Richard MorrisonHOST
I'm your host, Richard Morrison.
Richard MorrisonHOST
I'm a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
Richard MorrisonHOST
This is episode 193 for September 24th, 2026.
Richard MorrisonHOST
Free the Economy is about how we can all become happier, healthier, and wealthier in a world with less government control.
Richard MorrisonHOST
Reminder, you can always find our show notes with links to the stories we cover on the Competitive Enterprise Institute blog at cei.org slash blog.
Richard MorrisonHOST
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Richard MorrisonHOST
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Tom LyonGUEST
It's populated by serious researchers and scholars who produce very well worked out analyses.
Tom LyonGUEST
Then there are a lot of other think tanks that produce garbage, and I'm gonna point a finger right at the Competitive Enterprise Institute because they produced an ad, oh, now it's 20 years ago.
Tom LyonGUEST
It's a little cute video ad about climate change, and the tagline was, "Carbon dioxide, they call it pollution.
Tom LyonGUEST
We call it life." And I used to play that for my students just to kinda inoculate them against these stupid, utterly foolish, ungrounded ideas.
Bryan LeeHOST
And I got a guilty as charged.
Bryan LeeHOST
One of the guys I would always go to, and I'm doing air quotes, balance my story, was Myron Ebel at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Dan BeckerGUEST
But he's not
Bryan LeeHOST
a scientist.
speaker_0NARRATOR
This is Afterwards from C-SPAN.
speaker_0NARRATOR
This week, Chris Pope talks about his book, The American Way of Welfare, at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
speaker_0NARRATOR
He was interviewed by their president and CEO, Kent Lassman.
Kent LassmanHOST
What was it that kept you going through this process? Why did you want to write a book about this topic?
Peter SlinnHOST
This is Afterwards from C-SPAN.
Peter SlinnHOST
This week, Chris Pope talks about his book, The American Way of Welfare, at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
Peter SlinnHOST
He was interviewed by their president and CEO, Kent Lassman.
Kent LassmanMODERATOR
What was it that kept you going through this process? Why did you want to write a book about this topic?
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