Share |

• Disaster Reforms for Resiliency

  Over the past decade, extreme weather and storms have become increasingly commonplace. The sheer number of people and population centers affected by Sandy has helped shift the debate about disasters from one about helping “other people” to a conversation about national disaster policy...

  
• 2013 House and Senate Farm Bills Stack on More Subsidies

  As we expected, the House and Senate Agriculture Committees went to great lengths this week to save as little money as possible in their versions of the 2013 farm bill. The Senate led off on Tuesday, marking up a bill to shift more risks onto taxpayers....

  
• Water Waste: Cut Costly Provisions From Water Resources Development Act

  The Senate WRDA bill is too costly to stand. The price tag for WRDA will be far greater than the $12 billion in the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate. In fact, it could easily be double. ...

  
• Comments to House Ways and Means Committee 2013 Tax Reform Working Groups

  One of the major lessons of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 was that broader, more sweeping reforms tend to gain momentum, while smaller, more incremental approaches become dragged down by special interests protecting their own provisions...

  
• Taxpayer Supports for Corn Ethanol in Federal Legislation

  Taxpayers have spent billions of dollars over the last 30 years subsidizing the production of corn ethanol, while at the same time creating unintended costs for consumers and the environment...

  
• Analysis of Selected Sections of S. 601 Water Resources Development Act of 2013

  The Senate's Environment and Public Works committee is taking up a water project bill that could cost taxpayers billions. Our analysis here....

  
• BETA - TCS Digital Infrastructure

  Our new Digital Infrastructure is now live in beta testing. We’re migrating our 17 years of research and investigations over to this new platform so we can better shine the light on the federal budget process. The digital world has changed how we track Federal spending, and you'll notice a number of improvements in process on this site....

  

"This is not a reform bill. This is a rearview mirror bill"

• Most Read
• Most Shared