Taxpayers for Common Sense and allied organizations urge support for a crop insurance transparency amendment... 
Congress and the President went bungee jumping off the cliff and are going to be in the same position in just a few short months ...
As special interest spending provisions that were slipped into legislation, they were key to getting votes on bills and keeping members of Congress in line. ...
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June 18, 2013
Today, TCS urged the House Rules Committee to allow a full and open debate on the farm bill.... 
May 29, 2013
The United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) announced Friday it will shut down its Paducah gaseous diffusion plant, a Cold War-era...
May 23, 2013
Taxpayers for Common Sense sent a letter to the Senate, urging support for common sense reforms to the 2013 farm bill....
April 19, 2013
A recent report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) questions whether or not the nearly decade long, $1.65 billion FutureGen...
April 16, 2013
The Department of Energy (DOE) and Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) announced yesterday that a subsidiary of B&W—B&W mPower, LLC—will receive...
April 10, 2013
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April 10, 2013
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May 23, 2013
Every five or so years, Congress has an opportunity to reform agriculture policy in the farm bill, a massive piece of legislation that has...
March 20, 2013
The Senate's Environment and Public Works committee is taking up a water project bill that could cost taxpayers billions....
January 03, 2013
The final agreement signed by the president to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff” contains several items related to transportation that are...
January 03, 2013
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At the 11th hour lawmakers and the White House agreed to a deal on the fiscal cliff. While the deal was crafted to address urgent tax hikes...
June 18, 2013 | The New York Times
As the House prepares to vote this week on a new five-year farm bill, advocacy groups from across the political spectrum are lining up to...
June 18, 2013 | The New York Times
Jimmy Thomas Sasser stood in silence in February as a federal judge sentenced him to four years in prison. For more than a decade,...
June 17, 2013 | Bloomberg Businessweek
Tucked deep in the 1,198-page U.S. House agriculture policy legislation is an initiative to guarantee prices for sushi rice. So too is...
June 10, 2013 | The Washington Post
On Monday evening, the Senate will vote on a massive farm bill that will set the course of U.S. food policy for the next decade. The old...
June 10, 2013 | Insurance News Daily
Rep. Mike Thompson wants the subsidized coverage to require compliance for eligibility.
Among the differences between the current...
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Volume XVIII No. 22:
Americans could be forgiven if it seems that the nation’s capital has been infiltrated...
May 08, 2013
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