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• Skagit River Bridge Collapse

  The collapse of the Skagit River Bridge is a shocking and concerning event, and another reminder that maintenance and upkeep of our transportation facilities is crucial to the safety and wellbeing of the nation. Our report found that more than 11% of all existing bridges are structurally deficient...

  
• 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....

  
• 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...

  
• 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....

  

"Joe Camel’s nose has been under the tent all this time in the form of these hidden crop insurance subsidies."

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