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TCS Recommended Budget Cuts for the 112th Congress

The time has come for Congress to begin a serious discussion about how it is going to correct the current budgetary path into deeper and... Read More

Fair Market Value for Wind and Solar Development on Public Land

January 06, 2011 | Energy , Natural Resources

Fair Market Value for Wind and Solar Development on Public Land A review and analysis of the laws and regulations governing the collection and use of revenues from commercial energy development on federal lands and is a guide for policy-makers to use in developing appropriate policies for wind and solar energy projects.... Read More

FY2011 Omnibus Appropriations Earmark Database

December 29, 2010 | Earmarks & Appropriations

(Originally Posted 12/17/2010) Taxpayers for Common Sense has completed an initial database of the 6,706 earmarks worth $8.3 billion... Read More

TCS Releases Database of FY11 Earmark Requests

December 02, 2010 | Earmarks & Appropriations

(Originally Posted December 7) Taxpayers for Common Sense, WashingtonWatch.com, and Taxpayers Against Earmarks teamed together to... Read More

TCS and the Grocery Manufacturers Association Hold a Briefing on the Impacts and Future of the Corn

November 17, 2010 |

Also in attendance is Iowa State University economist Bruce Babcock. Click hereClick herePolicy Briefs: "Let the VEETC Expire:... Read More

Fiscal Commission Defense Cuts: Strong Start, More Can be Done

November 12, 2010 | National Security

The draft recommendations released this week by the co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform propose... Read More

TCS Preliminary Earmark Analysis for FY 2011

November 05, 2010 | Earmarks & Appropriations

Originally Posted 10/19/2010: The FY2011 budget is a mess. Congress has not finished a single spending bill. The House has approved... Read More

Election Gives Big-Spending Congressional Committees New Look

November 04, 2010 | Agriculture

The Armed Services Committees are not the only Congressional bodies to see their memberships upended by the midterm elections. The... Read More

Third Quarter Results are in and still the same story: Billions in profit, billions more in subsidie

November 03, 2010 |

Total SA made $3.2 in the third quarter; Shell: $3.5; Chevron: $3.8; Exxon: $7.4; and most telling of all, BP has emerged back into the... Read More

Common Sense Reforms for the 112th Congress

As the dawn of the 112th Congress draws near, there are several reforms Congress should enact, regardless of which party is in control.... Read More

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Weekly Wastebasket

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February 15, 2013

Engineering Boondoggles

While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as... Read More