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Analysis of Selected Sections of S. 601, Water Resources Development Act of 2013
March 20, 2013
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Letters & Testimony
Comments to House Ways and Means Committee 2013 Tax Reform Working Groups
April 15, 2013
The House Ways and Means Committee created eleven tax reform working groups to focus on select issues within the U.S. tax code as part of...
Below you can find materials from all of the different issues we work on organized by type of content. Click on the column heading for a complete list within an individual content type.
Disaster Reforms for Resiliency
May 21, 2013
Over the past decade, extreme weather and storms have become increasingly commonplace – including coastal storms, wildfires, droughts, and...
Fighting Deficit Reduction
May 20, 2013
The most recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s $955 billion farm bill continues to show the...
Support Bipartisan Crop Insurance Reform Legislation
May 15, 2013
Today, TCS joined 11 other fiscal conservative groups in supporting the Bipartisan Assisting Family Farmers through Insurance Reform Measures Act....
Fiscal Conservatives Letter on Farm Policy: The “Terrible Twelve”
May 13, 2013
Today, TCS joined 10 other fiscally conservative groups highlighting a dozen wasteful farm policy programs. ...
DOE Loan Guarantees: Overview, Risks, and More
March 18, 2010 > Updated: April 30, 2013
Created in Title 17 of the 2005 Energy Policy Act, the Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program has received increased scrutiny with the default of a loan guarantee to the solar start-up company, Solyndra....
Biomass Crop Assistance Program Fact Sheet
May 02, 2013
The Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP), a new program added to the energy title in the 2008 farm bill, was intended to spur development...
Wanna Giveaway?: Congress Using Budget Gimmicks to Reverse Air Traffic Cuts
April 26, 2013
Update (12:30pm) - The House passed this bill today 361-41, and it now goes to the President for his signature. Though the bill does shift...
Bringing Sequester in for a Landing: Congress on Verge of Avoiding FAA Furloughs with Budget Gimmicks
April 25, 2013
Update (9:03 pm): The Senate has gone with option 1 (see below), allowing for the transfer of $250 million from the Airport Improvement...
Loan Guarantee Program 101
October 16, 2012
A basic primer on the Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program and answers general questions on the history, administration, and overall effect of the program....
Farm Bill 101
October 02, 2012
The Farm Bill is a massive piece of legislation that guides food and farm policy. It covers wide-ranging topics from rural broadband service to farm subsidy payments....
Essential Air Service Dataset
April 04, 2013
The Essential Air Service (EAS) is a federal subsidy program created in the 1970s as part of airline deregulation. Though the program was...
Analysis of Selected Provisions in Hurricane Sandy Emergency Spending Proposals
December 17, 2012 > Updated: January 10, 2013
Update January 10, 2013:
We’ve combed through the House Appropriations Chairman Rogers Sandy Supplemental bill (HR 152 and his amendment...
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