TCS President Ryan Alexander Tells BLM How to Improve Rule, Reduce Wasted Gas
March 03, 2016
TCS staff will be combing through the budget materials and posting our observations and analyses on this page in a continuously updated blog.... ![]()
New Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposed rules to limit gas being vented, flared, and leaked from oil and gas operations on federal lands could save millions in lost royalties.... ![]()
The Department of the Interior's new comprehensive review of the federal coal program could help ensure taxpayers get a fair return on public coal resources.... ![]()
Ongoing analysis of the FY2016 Taxibus - the tax extenders and omnibus appropriations package recently released by Congress... ![]()
On October 28th, TCS celebrated our 20th anniversary. TCS co-founder Jill Lancelot, who was inducted into the Taxpayers Hall of Fame. She is standing next to TCS Board Chairman Mark Smith. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) received our “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” awards for their leadership on behalf of taxpayers, presented by TCS President, Ryan Alexander.... ![]()
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 adds $80 billion to discretionary budget authority in Fiscal Years 2016 and 2017, with some questionable offsets.... ![]()
Taxpayers for Common Sense awarded Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack the Golden Fleece Award... ![]()
February 08, 2016
Ongoing analysis of President Obama's final budget request for FY 2017 and insight into what it all means for taxpayers....
March 03, 2016
Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) held another in a series of listening sessions on its proposed rule to reduce wasted gas from oil and gas operations on federal lands. TCS President Ryan Alexander's comments at the listening session in Dickinson, ND are below....
March 01, 2016
TCS Co-founder Jill Lancelot spoke today at the 3rd in a series of public forums on BLM's draft rule to minimize venting and flaring of natural gas on federal lands....
February 29, 2016
TCS Co-founder Jill Lancelot spoke today about the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) draft rule to minimize natural gas waste
from federal oil and gas operations.
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February 18, 2016
Taxpayers for Common Sense Senior Policy Analyst Michael Surrusco spoke today at the second in a series of public meetings being held by the...
February 12, 2016
Below are the remarks of Jill Lancelot, co-founder of Taxpayers for Common Sense, from a conference call with New Mexico stakeholders and...
February 08, 2016
TCS and Project on Government Oversight hosted a panel discussion on how the federal government can better manage resources on federal lands....
February 03, 2016
The Fiscal Year 2015 National Defense Authorization Act established the National Commission on the Future of the Army. The commissioners are...
February 02, 2016
TCS sent the following letter urging Senators to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from spending $100 million on ethanol blender pumps....
January 22, 2016
On Friday, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposed new rules to limit the amount of gas being vented, flared, and leaked from oil and gas...
March 03, 2016 | Capital Insider
Military spending and reform have been hot-button issues on the campaign trail this year.
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March 03, 2016 | Insurance Journal
The House Financial Services Committee this morning approved a proposal intended to encourage more private insurers to write flood...
February 29, 2016 | U.S. News & World Report
Every few years the world is "gifted" with the blessing (or curse) of one extra day on the calendar. And so it is that 2016 is a leap year....
February 05, 2016
Links to TCS' yearly rolling analysis of the President's budget requests for the years 2011-2016...
January 28, 2016
To increase transparency and facilitate oversight of disaster-related relief spending, TCS has collected all, or most, of the publicly...
November 18, 2015
BLM has reduced the royalty rates on federal coal leases frequently during the last 25 years....
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Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ) on the bipartisan, bicameral legislation he introduced with Sens. McCain (R-AZ) and Leahy (D-VT) and Rep. Quigley (D-IL) that would make Congressional Research Service reports available to the public.
March 03, 2016