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Welcome to the TCS Press Release archive. You may browse press releases from 1997-2006 by selecting a year below: 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 2007 December 21, 2007 -- Senators Gut Earmark Disclosure, Still Take Credit for Corporate Pork December 18, 2007 -- Sen. Coburn Calls for Full Coconut Road Investigation December 17, 2007 -- Omnibus Spending Bill Stuffed With Earmarks December 12, 2007 -- Earmarks Distort Foreign Aid Priorities December 12, 2007 -- As the Omnibus Turns December 10, 2007 -- Same Day Service on the Omnibus Spending Bill December 7, 2007 -- A Look at the New New Orleans December 4, 2007 -- Cochran, Stevens Top Congressional Earmarkers November 30, 2007 -- Transportation/HUD Spending Bill Earmarks Database November 19, 2007 -- TCS Releases Database of Defense Spending Bill Earmarks November 14, 2007 -- TCS Releases Database of Vetoed Labor-HHS-Education Earmarks November 8, 2007 -- Congress Slams Home Water Pork November 5, 2007 -- New TCS Database Tracks Beneficiaries of House Defense Earmarks November 5, 2007 -- Congress Unwilling to Abide by Competitive Contracting Rules for Congressional Earmarks November 2, 2007 -- TCS Applauds Veto of $23 Billion Water Projects Bill November 1, 2007 -- House Votes to End Century Old Mining Giveaway October 31, 2007 -- TCS Statement on the Draft Columbia and Snake River Biological Opinion October 26, 2007 -- The Snowballing Supplemental October 23, 2007 -- TCS Action Supports Farm Reform Legislation Offered in Senate October 23, 2007 -- TCS Statement on Natural Resources Committee Passing Mining Reform Legislation October 18, 2007 (pdf) -- TCS Applauds Hinchey Amendment Securing Royalty Reforms in Mining Legislation October 10, 2007 -- TCS Statement on Partnership in Senate Farm Bill Campaign October 3, 2007 -- TCS Mourns the Passing of John Berthoud September 25, 2007 -- Senate Guts Earmark Transparency Rules September 25, 2007 -- Veto Time For Water Projects Bill September 24, 2007 -- New Online Tool Brings Transparency to Earmarks September 21, 2007 -- Alaska Governor Pulls Plug on Bridge to Nowhere September 19, 2007 -- Inouye, Stevens Pack Senate Defense Bill with Earmarks (html) September 12, 2007 -- Congress Discloses $3 Billion in Defense Earmarks September 7, 2007 -- Senate Outpaces House Earmark Total in FY08 Transportation/HUD Spending Bill August 29, 2007 -- Senate Matches House Earmark Total in FY08 Agriculture Spending Bill August 6, 2007 -- TCS Releases Earmarks in FY08 Senate Financial Services Appropriations Bill August 2, 2007 -- TCS Applauds Veto Threat for $21 Billion Water Project Bill August 2, 2007 -- Leadership Cleans Up in House FY08 Agriculture-Rural Development-FDA Spending Bill July 27, 2007 -- House Passes "Carbon Copy" Farm Bill July 25, 2007 -- More Than 1100 Earmarks in Commerce-Justice-Science Spending Bill July 24, 2007 -- House Transportation Spending Bill: The Road to Political Pork July 19, 2007 -- TCS Finds Twenty-three Earmarks in Senate FY08 State-Foreign Operations Bill July 19, 2007 -- House Labor-HHS-Education Bill Tops 1,300 Earmarks July 18, 2007 -- House Shows Restraint in Energy and Water Spending Bill Earmarks When Compared with Senate July 9, 2007 -- Alabama Big Winner in FY08 Senate Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Spending Bill July 3, 2007 -- Senate Continues to Bring Home the Bacon in FY08 Labor-Health and Human Services-Education Spending Bill July 3, 2007 -- FY08 Senate Interior & Environment Spending Bill Contains Nearly 500% More Earmarks Than House Version June 27, 2007 -- TCS Analysis of FY08 Senate Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill June 26, 2007 -- TCS Analysis of House Interior Appropriations Bill June 26, 2007 -- TCS Analysis of Senate Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Bill June 21, 2007 -- TCS Analysis of House Legislative Branch Spending Bill June 21, 2007 -- TCS Analysis of House State/Foreign Operations Spending Bill June 19, 2007 -- TCS Statement on Agriculture Subcommittee’s Missed Opportunity June 19, 2007 -- TCS Analysis of 2008 Senate Military Construction and Veteran Affairs Appropriations Bill June 19, 2007 -- TCS Analysis of House Energy & Water Appropriations Bill June 14, 2007 -- Watchdog Groups Call for Reform of Congressional Financial Disclosure Rules June 13, 2007 -- Kind-Flake Legislation Brings the Farm Bill into the 21st Century June 13, 2007 -- TCS Releases Analysis of Military Construction Spending Bill June 12, 2007 -- TCS Statement on EWG Agriculture Subsidy Database June 11, 2007 -- TCS Analysis of the 2008 Department of Homeland Security Spending Bill June 8, 2007 -- TCS Files Amicus Brief in Case Against Custer Battles June 8, 2007 -- TCS Uncovers 50 Earmarks House Defense Committee Failed to Disclose May 31, 2007 -- The House that Taxpayers Built: The Lucrative Business of K Street Lobbying May 23, 2007 -- House Armed Services Committee releases Defense Authorization Earmark May 16, 2007 -- TCS Releases Senate WRDA Bill Earmarks Database May 2, 2007 -- Land Swap for Cash Puts Rep. Rick Renzi in Hot Seat April 25, 2007 -- TCS Analysis of Fundraising Totals by Appropriations Committee Members April 23, 2007 -- See How the Emergency Spending Bills Stack Up April 17, 2007 -- Senate Announces Earmark Transparency Standards April 5, 2007 -- OMB Releases Database of FY05 Earmarks March 30, 2007 -- Defense Firm Receives Earmarks from Congressman While Wife is on Payroll March 29, 2007 -- TCS Statement on Senate Passage of Emergency Supplemental March 23, 2007 -- TCS Criticizes Passage of House Emergency Spending Bill March 13, 2007 -- TCS Applauds Introduction of Salmon Economic Analysis and Planning Act February 16, 2007 -- TCS Releases List of FY2007 Defense Earmarks February 15, 2007 -- TCS Statement on OMB's Earmark Memo February 5, 2007 -- TCS Statement on President's FY2008 Budget 2006 October 16, 2006 -- TCS Statement on Rep. Taylor's Response to Wall Street Journal Article September 29, 2006 -- TCS Statement on Final Passage of FY07 DOD Appropriations Bill September 27, 2006 -- TCS Statement on DOD Appropriations Bill September 19, 2006 -- TCS Names Good Government Champion Ryan Alexander Its New President September 14, 2006 -- TCS Statement on House Earmark Reform June 23, 2006 -- TCS Statement on Forest Service's Lack of Maintenance Backlog Accountability 2005 December 22, 2005 -- TCS Statement on Defense Spending Bill December 15, 2005 -- TCS Statement on the Death of Senator William Proxmire November 28, 2005 -- TCS Statement on the Guilty Plea of Rep. Duke Cunningham November 16, 2005 -- TCS Applauds Elimination of the Bridges to Nowhere in Alaska November 3, 2005 -- TCS Statement on Senate's Failure to Decrease Farm Payment Limits October 20, 2005 -- TCS Statement on Senate's Failure to Stop "Bridges to Nowhere" October 7, 2005 -- TCS Statement on House Passage of the Energy Bill Sequel September 21, 2005 -- TCS Praises RSC's Operation Offset September 15, 2005 -- TCS Statement on Presidential Address on Katrina Aid Package August 16, 2005 -- TCS Releases Report on Deterioration of Pennsylvania's Water Infrastructure August 10, 2005 -- TCS Statement on the President's signing of the porky highway bill August 8, 2005 -- TCS Statement on the Administration's Veto Slump July 28, 2005 -- TCS Statement on Don Young Naming a Billion Bridge After...Himself July 28, 2005 -- TCS Statement on the missing Transportation Bill Conference Report July 26, 2005 -- TCS Statement on the Energy Bill Conference Negotiations July 19, 2005 -- TCS Statement on the House's DD(X) Hearings July 14, 2005 -- TCS Statement on the Passage of the Water Resources Development Act July 14, 2005 -- Record Amount of Water Project Pork in WRDA Bill July 1, 2005 -- TCS Statement on Senate Passage of Energy and Water Appropriations Bill June 28, 2005 -- Opportunity Lost: Senators Opt Not to Chop Timber Subsidies in the Tongass June 27, 2006 -- TCS Releases a Cost of Marijuana Prohibition Report June 7, 2005TCS Statement on the Inspector General Tanker Report May 19, 2005 -- TCS Statement on the Derailment of the Tongass Forest Subsidy Amendment May 17, 2005 -- TCS Statement on Senate Passage of Transportation Bill May 5, 2005 -- Lawmakers Add Parochial Projects to War Spending Bill May 5, 2005 -- TCS Statement on Administration's Changes to the Roadless Rule April 21, 2005 -- TCS Statement on House Passage of the Energy Bill April 20, 2005 -- TCS Statement on the Energy Bill April 13, 2005 -- TCS Statement on the supplemental spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan March 10, 2005 -- TCS Statement on TEA-LU March 3, 2005Emergency Spending Bill Pays for Political Pork March 3, 2005 -- World Trade Organization Overrules King Cotton February 24, 2005 -- TCS Statement on C-130J Bid Protest February 24, 2005 -- TCS Applauds Blue Dog Coalition's Efforts to End Budget Deficit Addiction February 18, 2005 -- Michael Sears Sentenced to Four Months February 14, 2005 -- Boeing/Druyun Dragnet Expands February 7, 2005 -- Administration Introduces the "Budget of the Living Dead" January 5, 2005 -- TCS challenges new appropriations chair to rein in spending
2004
December 7, 2004 -- TCS welcomes Punsutawney Phil to Washington, requests that Phil be allowed to go back to bed November 30, 2004 -- TCS statement on the new Salmon Recovery Plan November 20, 2004 -- TCS Statement on the fiscal year 2005 Omnibus bill November 19, 2004 -- TCS Statement on Removal of Pro-Taxpayer Tongass Provision from Interior Appropriations Bill November 12, 2004 -- TCS Statement on the selection of a designer for the Eastern Bridge over the Ohio River October 8, 2004 -- TCS statement on House passage of the Conference Report to the Corporate Tax Bill October 7, 2004 -- TCS Statement on NAS Upper Mississippi River Navigation Study Report October 6, 2004 -- TCS Statement on Conference Agreement on Corporate Tax Legislation October 1, 2004 -- TCS statement on the sentencing of Darleen Druyun September 9, 2004 -- TCS Statement on Federal Government's Decision Not to Consider Snake River Dam Removal July 12, 2004 -- TCS Statement on the Bush Administration Roadless Rule Proposal June 25, 2005 -- TCS Statement on House's Missed Opportunity on Energy and Water Spending Bill June 16, 2004 -- Special Interest Smorgasboard - TCS statement on the FSC/ETI Corporate Tax bill June 16, 2004 -- TCS Applauds Congress on Cutting Corporate Welfare to the Timber Industry June 15, 2004 -- "Night of the Living Dead" Energy Bill June 14, 2004 -- TCS Statement on the House Corporate Tax Bill May 26, 2004 -- Department of Defense Defers Tanker Lease Decision May 20, 2004 -- Taxpayer Groups Blast Mississippi River Legislation May 20, 2004 -- New Study Finds Siskiyou Timber Sale a Big Time Money-Loser May 12, 2004 -- TCS Statement on the Jobs Act May 5, 2004 -- Dozens of Special Interest Provisions Added to Corporate Tax Bill April 29, 2004 -- Statement on efforts to add energy amendments to the Internet Tax Non-discrimination Act of 2003 April 28, 2004 -- TCS statement on introduction of legislation to curb Section 29 abuses April 9, 2004 -- TCS statement on Boeing IG report April 2, 2004 -- Veto This Bill Mr. President March 31, 2004 -- Forest Service Roads in Shambles March 25, 2004 -- Joint Statement on Presentation of the 2004 Sockeye Leadership Award March 23, 2004 -- Trust Fund Running on Empty March 18, 2004 -- New Investigation Finds Corps of Engineers Wastes Billions and Harms Environment March 15, 2004 -- Statement from Keith Ashdown on the GAO's new report on the F/A-22 February 23, 2004 -- Statement from Keith Ashdown on the Pentagon's decision to cancel the RAH-66 Comanche February 20, 2004 -- Statement from Keith Ashdown on Boeing's decision to layoff 150 employees in its tanker division February 19, 2004 -- Statement from Aileen Roder on the revised energy bill, S. 2095 February 2, 2004 -- Statement from Steve Ellis on Release of the President's FY2005 Budget Request January 22, 2004 -- Statement by Jill Lancelot, President at TCS on the Omnibus Spending Bill
2003
December 18, 2003 -- Economists Criticize Forest Service Over $10 Billion Road Backlog December 8, 2003 -- Statement by Steve Ellis on passage of the Omnibus Spending Bill December 1, 2003 -- Statement by Steve Ellis on Phillip Condit's resignation as Chairman and CEO of Boeing Co. November 24, 2003 -- Statement by Keith Ashdown on Boeing's decision to fire Darleen Druyun November 21, 2003 -- Statement by Jill Lancelot, President of TCS on the Energy Bill November 17, 2003 -- $95 Billion and Counting November 6, 2003 -- Pentagon Supports Senate Tanker Compromise; Billions in Savings October 30, 2003 -- National Taxpayer Group Slams Colorado Water Bond Initiative October 24, 2003 -- Administration Expands Massive Land Giveaways for Mining October 17, 2003 --CBO Says Tanker Lease is $6.7 Billion More Than Purchase October 16, 2003 -- Landmark Water Deal Signed; Mixed Bag for Taxpayers October 14, 2003 -- 118 Members of Congress Urge President to Consider All Alternatives for Snake River Salmon Recovery October 3, 2003 -- Senate Committee Shrinks SUV Tax Break October 1, 2003 -- Congress Should Not Pass the Buck on Superfund October 1, 2003 -- Millions of Taxpayer Dollars Lost to Logging, Road Building in Alaska September 23, 2003 -- Pentagon Resists Efforts to Make Boeing Tanker Deal More Fiscally Accountable September 18, 2003 -- Phelps Dodge Should Not Pass the Buck on Cleanup Costs September 17, 2003 -- General Accounting Office Says Federal Agencies Lack Important Fire Prevention Priorities August 26, 2003 -- CBO Slams Boeing Tanker Lease August 1, 2003 -- A Costly Deal on the Energy Bill July 23, 2003 -- Statement on Boeing Lease Deal July 18, 2003 -- House Approves $8 Million for Delaware Deepening July 15, 2003 -- House Approves Bilion Dollar Increase over Bush Energy, Water Budget July 15, 2003 -- Administration's Plan to Exempt America's Largest National Forest from Roadless Rule Will Cost Taxpayers Millions June 12, 2003 -- Rep. Don Young Wins Golden Fleece Award June 10, 2003 -- Senate Votes to Increase Corporate Welfare for the Nuclear Industry June 5, 2003 -- Taxpayer Group Endorses New Bipartisan Roadless Legislation June 2, 2003 -- GAO: "Little Progress" Made on Fixing Forest Service Financial Management Problems May 15, 2003 -- Taxpayers and Public Health to Benefit from Mining Law Reforms May 8, 2003 -- Prepared Statement of Aileen Roder for the release of the Green Scissors 2003 report April 23, 2003 -- General Accounting Office to Audit Bonneville Power April 11, 2003 -- Analysis Finds House Energy Bill Fueled By Pork April 2, 2003 -- Lawmakers Add Shipbuilding Subsidies to Wartime Spending Bill April 1, 2003 -- Folsom Bridge Legislation Is Over Troubled Waters March 25, 2003 -- Cost of War and Post-Saddam Iraq Likely to Exceed $110B This Year March 5, 2003 -- Lawmakers Introduce Salmon Planning Act February 26, 2003 -- Federal Salmon Recovery Plan Year 2: Costing hundreds of millions of dollars and doing little for salmon February 14, 2003 -- BPA Gets a Valentine Gift from Federal Taxpayers February 7, 2003 -- Closer Scrutiny of BPA Finances Needed February 3, 2003 -- Bush Budget is Riverboat Gamble that May Drown in Sea of Red Ink January 30, 2003 -- New Barge Traffic Figures At Odds With Corps Plans for Lock Expansions January 29, 2003 -- Senator to Introduce Bill to Close SUV Business Tax Loophole January 29, 2003 -- TCS on State of the Union: Era of Big Government is Back, Big Time! January 9, 2003 -- Audit Finds Federal Fire Dollars Wasted January 7, 2003 -- TCS Slams Bush Stimulus Plan
2002
December 9, 2002 -- Power Council proposes to further weaken salmon recovery efforts November 14, 2002 -- Corps Whistleblower Wins Service to America Award November 1, 2002 -- Cost of Iraq Invasion Severly Underestimated; Tens of Billions Have Been Ignored -- Administration needs to release information on how to fund war October 30, 2002 -- Statement by Jill Lancelot, President of TCS on the Terrorism Insurance Bill September 30, 2002 -- Fishing Quota Moratorium Expires; Congress Fails to Act on Vital Fisheries Issue September 5, 2002 -- Growing Deficit Doesn't Stop Congressional Budget Busting September 4, 2002 -- New Report Finds Massive Economic Benefits from Dam Removal August 26, 2002 -- Feds Spend $3.3 billion on Salmon Recovery August 22, 2002 -- Forest Service Misplaced $215 Million in Firefighting Funds July 24, 2002 -- Prepared Statement by Aileen Roder, Water Policy Analyst at TCS, on the House Resources Committee Markup of H.R. 2301 July 16, 2002 -- House Expected To Approve Massive Spending Increases Over Bush Interior Budget July 16, 2002 -- Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Eliminate Wasteful Dredging On The Apalachicola River July 11, 2002 -- End Forest Service Political Demagoguery - Despite Agency Rhetoric, Failure to Target Fire Funds Towards High Risk Communities Is A Real Fire Fighting Crisis July 11, 2002 -- As Forest Service Continues to Subsidize Timber Companies, Bush Opposes Policies to Save Millions in Taxpayer Dollars June 19, 2002 -- As Budget Surpluses Evaporate, Lawmakers Continue to Waste Money, According to New Study June 18, 2002 -- Written Statement by Steve Ellis, Senior Director of Water Resources at TCS, on the Smith-Feingold-McCain Corps Reform Bill June 17, 2002 -- Let's End the Century of Subsidies June 17, 2002 -- Taxpayer Scorecard to be Released Wednesday June 5, 2002 -- Statement on New Bipartisan Roadless Legislation May 21, 2002 -- Senate Should Protect United States From Frivolous Foreign Lawsuits May 17, 2002 -- Long-Awaited Corps of Engineers Project Suspension List Released May 16, 2002 -- New Legislation Would Protect Taxpayers, Prevent Nation's Largest Toxic Polluter from Destroying Rivers and Streams May 16, 2002 -- TCS Statement on the Introduction of New Mining Reform Legislation May 15, 2002 -- Prepared Statement by Aileen Roder, Water Policy Analyst at TCS for Water and Power Subcommittee Markup of H.R. 2301 May 14, 2002 -- Provision in Trade Bill Could Cost Taxpayers Billions, According to New Study May 10, 2002 -- Irrigation Provision in Farm Bill Could Sell Taxpayers Down the River May 7, 2002 -- Cost Overruns, Unanswered Scientific Questions Plague Yucca Project May 2, 2002 -- Farm Bill Fleeces Taxpayers, Harms Family Farmers May 2, 2002 -- Taxpayer, Environmental Groups Applaud New Fishery Management Law; Offer Suggestions to Enhance Taxpayer, Environmental and Fishermen Protections April 30, 2002 -- Statement on Corps of Engineers Decision to Halt 150 Wasteful Projects Pending New Economic Studies April 23, 2002 -- Taxpayer Group Blasts Senate on Ethanol Decision April 18, 2002 -- Statement Supporting Payment Caps in Farm Bill April 11, 2002 -- Green Scissors Exposes $54 billion in Wasteful Federal Spending that Harms the Environment April 11, 2002 -- Prepared Statement of Cena Swisher, Director, Green Scissors Program, TCS, For the release of the Green Scissors 2002 report April 10, 2002 -- $85 Million Bridge Boondoggle Fleeces Taxpayers April 10, 2002 -- Written Testimony by Aileen Roder, California Water Project Coordinator at TCS, before the Water and Power Subcommittee, Resources Committee April 2, 2002 -- Written Statement by Joe Theissen, Executive Director of TCS, for the April 2nd release of the American Rivers Most Endangered Rivers Report at the National Press Club April 1, 2002 -- TCS Statement on Pork Council's Name Change Recommendation March 22, 2002 -- TCS Slams Postage Increase March 20, 2002 -- Statement on Passage of Campaign Finance Reform Legislation March 13, 2002 -- Congress Should Not Put the Nation's Credit Rating at Risk by Playing Politics with the Debt Ceiling March 13, 2002 -- Route 29 Project Is One of Most Wasteful in the Nation March 7, 2002 -- Testimony of Steve Ellis, Senior Director of Water Resources at TCS Before the Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee March 6, 2002 -- Corps of Engineers Chief Terminated by Administration March 5, 2002 -- Bipartisan Bill to Stop Billions in Wasteful Spending on Water Projects Introduced February 20, 2002 -- Army Corps Decision Against Dam Removal Could Cost Taxpayers Billions and Drive Salmon to Extinction February 13, 2002 -- Despite Changes, Farm Bill Costs Too Much, Continues to Plague Family Farmers February 13, 2002 -- Protect Taxpayers from Fisheries Giveaway February 13, 2002 -- Nate Heasley testimony Before the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans Of the House Resources Committee Hearing on Individual Fishing Quotas February 12, 2002 -- National Fire Plan Funds Mishandled February 4, 2002 -- Back to the Future: Bush Budget Busts the Bank February 1, 2002 -- Common Sense Principles for the 2003 Budget January 31, 2002 -- Energy Polluters Poised to Reap $62 Billion in Taxpayer Handouts January 9, 2002 -- Cena Swisher on Bush Proposal to Eliminate PNGV January 9, 2002 -- Lack of Evidence of Economic Woes Should Derail Legislative Efforts to Bailout Insurance Industry
2001
December 13, 2001 -- The Social Security Commission Report Downplays Costs of Private Accounts December 12, 2001 -- Most States Pay More For Farm Subsidies Than They Receive December 10, 2001 -- Some National Forests Misuse National Fire Plan Funds November 29, 2001 -- Ellis, Swisher Promoted to Senior Directors at TCS November 27, 2001 -- House Passes Price-Anderson Act on Voice Vote November 7, 2001 -- Hold Onto Your Wallets! California Money Grab Coming! November 1, 2001 -- House Rebuffs Bonneville Power on Borrowing Authority October 29, 2001 -- Bonneville Power Shortchanging Taxpayers October 24, 2001 -- Economic Stimulus Plan Threatens Nation's Long-term Fiscal Health October 19, 2001 -- Forest Service Terminates Timber Subsidy Report October 16, 2001 -- Theissen Joins TCS October 5, 2001 -- TCS on House Passage of the Farm Security Act September 25, 2001 -- TCS on Base Closures Tuesday, September 25, 2001 -- Fire Costs Hit All Time High Friday, September 6, 2001 -- Who Paid for the Fireworks Tuesday, August 27, 2001 -- TCS on the Dwindling Federal Budget Surplus Friday, August 24, 2001 -- Federal Firefighters Target Communities with Little Fire Risk Wednesday, August 15, 2001 -- Fire Costs Explode Wednesday, August 2, 2001 -- Billions in Energy Subsidies, Tax Breaks Approved by House Thursday, August 2, 2001 -- Investigation Reveals Weaknesses in Federal Firefighting Tuesday, July 31, 2001 -- Billions for Big Business in House Energy Plan Tuesday, July 31, 2001 -- A Tale of Two Fires: Recent Fires Illustrate How the Forest Service Can Save $$ and Restore Forests, Says TCS Friday, July 27, 2001 -- Insurance for the Nuclear Power Industry? Thursday, July 19, 2001 -- Sen. Feinstein's Water Bill a "Political Prok Fest" Says TCS Thursday, July 19, 2001 -- TCS on the Salmon Planning Act of 2001 Monday, July 2, 2001 -- TCS on the Western Water Enhancement Security Act Thursday, June 28, 2001 -- House Approves Massive Spending Increases over Bush, Water Budget Wednesday, June 27, 2001 -- Agency Receives Golden Fleece for Shady Forest Deal in West Virginia Wednesday, June 27, 2001 -- TCS on Corps Reform Legislation Wednesday, June 27, 2001 -- Auburn Dam Defeated Again Wednesday, June 27, 2001 --TCS Testifies on the Bush Administration's Energy Proposals Tuesday, June 19, 2001 -- Hundreds of Millions Expected to be Added to the Corps of Engineers Budget Thursday, June 14, 2001 -- TCS on the Bush Mining Reform Rule Tuesday, June 12, 2001 -- TCS Blasts Administration on Ethanol Decision Wedneday May 31, 2001 -- Record Losses for the U.S. Timber Program Thursday, May 24, 2001 -- Statement by Jill Lancelot on Subsidies for Nuclear Power in Current Energy Proposals Wednesday, May 23, 2001 --TCS Cites Wasteful Spending, Says Congress is a Fiscal Crossroads Thursday, May 17, 2001 --TCS Analysis of the Bush-Cheney Energy Plan Thursday, May 17, 2001 -- TCS Statement on the Bush-Cheney Energy Plan Wednesday, May 16, 2001 -- Alternative Presented for Grand Prairie Irrigation Would Save Taxpayers $175 Million Tuesday, May 11, 2001 -- In Congress, Vice President Cheney was a Big-TIme Supporter of Giveaways to Big Energy; "Never Found a Giveaway to Big Energy He Didn't Like," Group Charges Wednesday, May 9th 2001 -- Members of Congress, Mining Reform Groups Demand Bush Administration Reverse Its Plan to Allow More Pollution from Mining; 20,000 Public Comments Oppose Bush Plan 50 to 1 Tuesday, May 1, 2001 -- TCS on National Missile Defense Monday April 30, 2001 -- Billions Could Be Saved from Nuclear Weapons Reductions Thursday April 26, 2001 -- Environmental Rollback Would Open Taxpayers to $1 Billion Liability from Mining Pollution, New Report Says Thursday, April 19, 2001 -- GAO to Study Controversial Oregon Inlet Jetties Monday April 2, 2001 -- Government Financial Management Still Below Average Thursday, March 29, 2001 -- Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Introduces Bills to Revamp U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Tuesday, March 27, 2001 -- Landrieu Reverses Position on Defense Spending Thursday, March 22, 2001 -- Report: Pentagon Pays More Than $400 for $39 Sinks Thursday, March 22, 2001 -- New Bush Beach Policy Could Save Taxpayers Billions Wednesday, March 21, 2001 -- Bush Administration Proposes to Suspend Mining Rule; Decision Could Force Taxpayers to Pay for Mine Cleanups Wednesday, March 14, 2001 -- Statement by Cena Swisher: "Lining King Coal's Pockets?" Friday, March 9, 2001 -- Prepared Statement by Jonathan Oppenheimer on the US Forest Service's TSPIRS Report Tuesday, March 6, 2001 -- Timber Subsides Reach Record Levels, According to New Report Wednesday, February 28, 2001 -- TCS Comments on Upper Mississippi River Navigation Study Tuesday, February 27, 2001 -- New Base Closures Bill Could Save Taxpayers Billions Monday, February 26, 2001 -- Statement by Cena Swisher, Director, Green Scissors Program, TCS on the "National Energy Security Act of 2001" Thursday, February 22, 2001 -- Green Scissors 2001 Exposes $55 Billion in Wasteful Federal Spending that Harms the Environment Thursday, February 22, 2001 -- Green Scissors 2001: Prepared Statement by Cena Swisher, TCS Program Director Friday, February 9, 2001 -- Energy Bill Doles Out Billions to Companies with Record Profits Monday, February 5, 2001 -- Statement on the Delaware Deepening Project by Steve Ellis, Director of Water Resources at TCS Thursday, February 1, 2001 -- Public Interest Groups Seek Court Injunction to Bar Use of Biased Report on Massive Fusion Laser Project Thursday, February 1, 2001 -- FACT SHEET: Conflicts of Interest of Non-Federal Employees Participating in DOE's "Rebaseline Validation Review" Committee for the NIF Friday, January 19, 2001 -- GAO: USDA Faces Challenges Friday, January 19, 2001 -- GAO Blasts Dept. of Interior Land Exchanges, Management of Indian Trust Funds Thursday, January 18, 2001 -- GAO: Forest Service Vulnerable to Waste, Fraud and Abuse Wednesday, January 17, 2001 -- Clinton Administration Attempting to Gut 1992 Water Law
2000
Thursday, December 14, 2000 -- 2000 Fire Season Most Expensive in History - New Report Offers Recommendations to Save Lives, Homes and Tax Dollars Friday, December 8, 2000 -- News Alert: 2000 Fire Season Most Expensive in History Tuesday, December 5, 2000 -- Mike Synar Inducted into The Taxpayer Hall of Fame Tuesday, December 5, 2000 -- Representative Mark Sanford Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from TCS Tuesday, December 5, 2000 -- Wisconsin Legislators Win 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' Award Tuesday, December 5, 2000 -- Rep. Peter DeFazio Wins 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' Award Tuesday, December 5, 2000 -- Arkansas Rice Farmer and Attorney Win 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' Award Tuesday, December 5, 2000 -- TCS Names Corps of Engineers Economist Whistleblower of the Year Friday, December 1, 2000 -- TCS President to Leave Friday, November 3, 2000 -- House Passes Historic Everglades Bill Thursday, November 2, 2000 -- PA Groups Urge Members of Congress to Publicly Support Dam Removal Tuesday, October 31, 2000 -- Senate Passes WRDA/Everglades Bill Tuesday, October 31, 2000 -- Senate WRDA Everglades Vote Expected Tonight Wednesday, October 25, 2000 -- Sen. Bob Smith (R-NH) Holding the Line on Wasteful Spending in Water Resources Bill" Wednesday, October 25, 2000 -- Senate Rejects Environmental and Taxpayer Protections on Animas-La Plata Thursday, October 19, 2000 -- Port of New York / New Jersey Receives $300 Million “Gift” from House of Representatives Thursday, October 19, 2000 -- Written Statement of Steve Ellis, Director of Water Resources TCS on House passage of the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 Wednesday, October 18, 2000 -- New Subsidies, Questionable Projects in Water Bill Friday, October 6, 2000 -- TCS Hires New California Water Project Director Friday, September 29, 2000 -- Taxpayers, Salmon - 1; Gorton - 0 Monday, September 25, 2000 -- Senate Chooses Pork Over Reform in Passing Water Resources Bill Friday, September 21, 2000 -- Anti Salmon Rider Passes; Taxpayers Potentially Liable for Billions Tuesday, September 19, 2000 -- Colorado Groups and Businesses Urge Colorado Delegation to Publicly Support Removal of Four Dams on the Lower Snake River Thursday, September 14, 2000 -- Conservation, Taxpayer Groups Offer 90-day Prescription To Reform Scandal-Plagued Corps of Engineers Thursday, September 14, 2000 -- Statement by Steve Ellis, TCS Water Resources Director, on Corps Reform Thursday, September 7, 2000 -- A Thousand Teachers Ask President to Separate Rural Education Funding and Logging Thursday, August 10, 2000 -- TCS Action Releases New Common Sense Taxpayer Scorecard Friday, July 28, 2000 -- Incremental Salmon Plans By Feds & Governors Probably Not Worth New Federal Taxpayer Money Thursday, July 20, 2000 -- White House Decision to delay Dam Removal Could Drive Salmon to Extinction and Cost Taxpayers Billions Tuesday, July 18, 2000 -- Army Corps of Engineers Reform Act of 2000 Introduced in the House Thursday, July 13, 2000 -- GAO Report: Federal Land Management Agencies Are Wasting Millions on Shady Land Deals Thursday, June 29, 2000 -- Agricultural Appropriations Bill Reaches Too Deep Thursday, June 29, 2000 -- Chabot Takes a Stand Against Corporate Welfare Thursday, June 8, 2000 -- TCS Praises Efforts to Reduce Corporate Welfare Wednesday, June 7, 2000 -- Politics Sinks Nuclear Weapons Cuts, Costs Taxpayers $900 Million Wednesday, June 7, 2000 -- Controversial Colorado Water Project in Violation of Federal Law, Group Says Thursday, May 11, 2000 -- House Panel Holds Hearings on Controversial Water Project Wednesday, May 10, 2000 -- Anti-Taxpayer Rider Revives Controversial Oregon Inlet Project Monday, April 24, 2000 -- Post Service Spends Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars on Executive Moving Expenses Wednesday April 12, 2000 -- Television Ads Expose Timber Giveaways Thursday March 23, 2000 --Polluting Energy Industries to Receive Over $26 billion from Taxpayers  Monday, March 6, 2000 -- 500 Alaska Fishermen Endorse Dam Removal  Thursday, February 24, 2000 -- TCS Water Resources Director Steve Ellis' statement on the US Army Corps of Engineers Program Growth Initiative  Friday, January 21, 2000 -- Actors Adam West and Mariel Hemingway Endorse Removal of Four Dams on the Lower Snake River Thursday, January 20, 2000 -- Green Scissors 2000 Identifies 77 Environmentally Harmful Spending Subsidies Costing Taxpayers $50 Billion
1999
Friday, December 17, 1999 -- TCS Comments on Army Corps of Engineers' Lower Snake River Juvenile Salmon Migration Feasibility Study Wednesday, December 15, 1999 -- First Annual "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" Awards Presented Wednesday, December 15, 1999 -- Former Senator William Proxmire Receives Lifetime Achievement Award Wednesday, November 17, 1999 -- Vice President's Mining Proposal Could Leave Taxpayers Liable for Billions Tuesday, October 19, 1999 -- A Fiscal Disaster: Steve Ellis, TCS Director of Water Resources, Testifies Against House Reinsurance Bill Friday, October 8, 1999 -- Hoosiers Unite to Urge Common Sense on I-69 Friday, September 24, 1999 -- Oil Lobby Continues Slick Deal with Congress Tuesday, September 14, 1999 -- Senate to Vote on Royalties This Week Wednesday, August 3, 1999 -- 107 Members of Congress Urge President to Consider Snake River Salmon Recovery Options Thursday, July 22, 1999 -- F-22 Cuts Good for Taxpayers Wednesday, July 21, 1999 -- Senate Interior Bill a Windfall for the Timber, Oil, Mining And Coal Industries Friday, July 9, 1999 -- Army Extends THAAD Deadlines, Signs Agreement to Possibly Rescind Lockheed-Martin Fines June 25, 1999 -- TCS Calls CALFED Plan a "Stealth Attack on American Taxpayers" May 25, 1999 -- Agricultural Appropriations Bill Reaches too Deep May 24, 1999 -- THAAD to Hold Test After Six Consecutive Misses May 18, 1999 -- Pork in Supplemental Sets Stage for Budget Train Wreck April 12, 1999 -- 300 Groups Endorse Retirement of The Four Dams on America's Most Endangered River March 17, 1999 -- Water Pork Bill Floats Through Congress
1998
December 23, 1998 -- Energy Secretary Richardson Saves Taxpayers $5 Billion September 22, 1998 -- TCS Testifies Against Coastal Barrier Exemptions September 10, 1998 -- National Missile Defense: Taxpayers Urge Another Defeat For Misguided Senate Legislation July 1, 1998 -- Oil Fight Imminent in the Senate June 24, 1998 -- ADC Predator Control: Taxpayers Praise Bass-DeFazio Leadership June 22, 1998 -- F-22 Fighter Plane: Fly Before You Buy June 16, 2005 -- Taxpayers Praise Bass Leadership on Corporate Welfare May 7, 1998 -- Oil Industry Strikes It Rich At Taxpayer Expense April 30, 1998 -- Retiring Lower Snake River Dams Saves Money and Saves Salmon April 27, 1998 -- Fraud Fighters Oppose Billion Dollar Billing Loopholes March 31, 1998 -- Senate Budget Resolution Promotes Big Government March 26, 1998 -- Transportation Bill A Dead End For Taxpayers March 25, 1998 -- Demonstration Projects Show Power of Pork in Transportation Bill March 24, 1998 -- House Transportation Bill Piles on the Pork January 21, 1998 -- Green Scissors 1998 Release
1997
October 23, 1997 -- New D.C. Convention Center Threatens to Build on Past Mistakes September 17, 1997 -- TCS Slams Highway Pork in Shuster Bill May 27, 1997 -- TCS Demands Vote On "Secret" Congressional Pay Raise May 7, 1997 -- Green Scissors Michigan Proposal: Save Taxpayers $2.8 Billion, Protect the Environment April 23, 1997 -- TCS Supports Bill To Terminate NASA Space Station April 22, 1997 -- NASA Space Monkey Program Off The Taxpayers Back March 13, 1997 -- Animas La Plata Opponents Open Senate Front

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