Analysis of Selected Provisions in Hurricane Sandy Emergency Spending Proposals
December 17, 2012
Subsidizing Oil Shale: Tracing Federal Support for Oil Shale Development in the United States
November 29, 2012
Update January 10, 2013:
We’ve combed through the House Appropriations Chairman Rogers Sandy Supplemental bill (HR 152 and his...
The Department of Energy (DOE) loan guarantee program carries extremely high taxpayer risk, potentially jeopardizing billions of taxpayer dollars if energy project loans default....
Several administrative changes could be implemented to reduce taxpayer costs and limit the unintended consequences of federal crop insurance. ...
The final agreement signed by the president to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff” contains several items related to transportation that...
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...
Since the early 20th century, the federal government and private industry have attempted to commercialize oil shale but after years of...
Taxpayers for Common Sense awarded the Golden Fleece to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency for wasting taxpayer funds on risk management education for crops ranging from Christmas trees to turf grass....
Congress and the President do not need to plunge taxpayers off a “Fiscal Cliff”. Common sense solutions can make government work and put the country on sound footing to deal with our deficits and debt....
With fiscal cliff looming, TCS calls for end to government handouts for failed oil shale experiments....
“Punt and go home.” That’s the message that Taxpayers for Common Sense wants to send to lawmakers.
Ryan Alexander, president of the...
Evolution of Earmarks and Earmark Disclosure in Recent Years...
2010: Senator Clare McCaskill (D-MO) and Rep. Jeff Flake (R-CA)
2005: Senator John Sununu (R-NH)
2004: Representatives Steve Chabot...
Since 1999, Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) has honored lawmakers and citizen activists whose leadership and dedication have made a...
Washington, DC - Citing the illegal use of taxpayer dollars at the Northeastern Research Station's Fernow Experimental Forest, a national...
The so-called Farm Bill currently being negotiated in Congress is shaping up to be another taxpayer-funded handout to wealthy landowners,...
Federally subsidized crop insurance has become the largest taxpayer support for agriculture. But not all parts of the agriculture...
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....
Over the years the coal industry has received billions in federal subsidies, in a variety of forms including direct grants, loan...
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....
The agricultural safety net refers to the various federal programs and policies that insulate agricultural producers from the costs of conducting business....
A basic primer on the Green Scissors campaign and answers general questions about the history and goals of the coalition....
In the summer of 2011, Congress sent the President a bill that acknowledged failure. Instead of swallowing hard and coming up with...
Coal-fired energy production is one of the oldest and most profitable industries in the world. Yet despite decades of success, the well-established coal industry remains on the federal dole. ...
The just-passed MAP-21 (transportation omnibus) is paid for! It reduces the debt over 10 years!
By $16.3 billion,if CBO is to be...
(Originally Posted December 2011, Most Recent Update: September 2012)
In 2008, Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC applied for a $1.7 billion...
H.J. Res. 117 — Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2013 was released this morning (9/11/2012). TCS staff will be posting relevant documents and analysis as we digest this proposal over the coming days....
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....
Special interests are always looking for a silver lining. This year, it’s the farm lobby and sympathetic politicians shamelessly taking...
Taxpayers for Common Sense awarded the Golden Fleece to Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY) for introducing H.R. 4342, the WAVE4 Act. This legislation would codify recommendations made by barge operators to increase the federal subsidy for inland waterway construction projects on the nation's rivers....
The first half of 2012 has brought more multi-billion dollar profits for major oil companies. So far, these companies have raked in more...
While the program was intended for emerging energy technologies, mature industries like coal and nuclear are eligible as well. Congress provided the program with funding in several areas including advanced nuclear reactors, renewable and energy efficiency, front-end nuclear fuel cycle technology, and advanced fossil fuels....
Citing record drought conditions throughout the country, the House is debating today legislation to retroactively extend four...
For centuries the federal government has been in the business of providing billions in subsidies to coal companies in order to ensure...
Federal farm programs are ripe for reform, especially those that lock in record high prices and guarantee farmers’ expected income. As...
Politicians on both sides of the aisle are trying to take advantage of the drought crisis to foist a trillion-dollar farm bill on...
The Fiscal Year 2013 defense spending bill heading to the House floor Wednesday is a lesson in why it’s so hard to cut defense spending...
Yesterday, the House Agriculture Committee released its 2012 Farm Bill draft which eliminates some wasteful commodity programs but...
On June 21, the Senate passed a few long-awaited reforms to the farm subsidy maze. Unfortunately, at the same time, they also increased...
A quick note: This analysis is based upon best available data at the time it was written. As of this posting (6:20pm), the final...
Left-Right coalition identifies practical steps Congress could take to slash deficits, save natural resources....
Despite the ever-increasing price tag, incessant delays in progress, and known safety risks, the Department of Energy continues to pour federal subsidies into the Mixed Oxide Fuel (MOX) program year after year. ...
Like all businesses, agricultural producers face a number of risks in maintaining a profitable enterprise. Successful management of these...
The Senate Committee on Finance held a hearing last week on tax reform and its impacts on energy policy. Among the four witnesses from...
(Originally published June 8, 2012)
With debate on the 2012 Farm Bill underway on the Senate Floor, proponents of this nearly trillion...
Congress continues to meet behind closed doors in a Conference Committee to hash out the details of a transportation bill...
In yet another attempt to revive the struggling United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC), the Department of Energy (DOE) has offered...
It appears that one of the top contenders for a loan guarantee under the Department of Energy program has decided to abandon original...
The Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program was created in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to provide Treasury backed loan...
Watchdog Groups Identify Nearly $700 Billion in Wasteful Spending on National Security...
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has released a report that will help you study up for this Wednesday’s Senate Farm Bill mark-up...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a report detailing the potential to save more than a billion dollars a year...
In response to growing public opposition, questionable project merit, and an increasingly bloated cost, the California High Speed Rail...
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Mica (R-FL) introduced H.R. 4239 yesterday; a “clean” extension to the...
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development met Wednesday to discuss the FY2013 Office of Nuclear Energy budget...
With annual financial reports being released this time of year, the oil and gas industry is looking to continue its decade long trend of...
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action sent a letter to members of Congress as they consider H.R. 7, The American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs...
The Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB) is a compendium of more than two thousand tariff waivers which reduce the fees importers pay for a...
As Washington debates the merits of a supplemental spending bill in response to superstorm Sandy, this database lists of all the spending...
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is the largest federal agency in the United States, consuming more than half of discretionary...
Federal crop insurance is a highly taxpayer subsidized program that allows agricultural producers to shift their business risk onto...
(February 8, 2012 | 3:00 p.m.)
Below is a chart detailing the number of projects that receive funding in the Corps 2012 Work Plan that...
It appears the oil and gas industry is looking to continue its decade long trend of record profits. As of February 2nd, Chevron, Exxon...
The Defense Department today gave the public a peek behind the cover of its Fiscal Year 2013 budget request, releasing a report and fact...
The nation’s transportation system — highways, transit lines, aviation, waterways, and ports — is largely supported by a series of...
Carbon capture and storage (CCS), also referred to as carbon capture and sequestration, is the process of separating carbon dioxide (CO2)...
The latest iteration of the Department of Energy’s FutureGen project (find a timeline here) is a federal initiative to finance and...
The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) today awarded $511 million worth of grants to support 46 projects in 33 states and...
The Department of Energy loan guarantee program that backed Solyndra, a solar panel manufacturer which went bankrupt on August 31, 2011...
The Medicine Bow plant has been repeatedly delayed over eight years. Putting the full faith and credit of the U.S. government behind this costly and risky project is fiscally reckless. ...
FutureGen Project Timeline
• February 2003: Bush Administration announces initiative to develop zero-emissions “clean coal” power plant....
House and Senate negotiators have released a final version of the so-called "mini-bus" appropriations bill that will roll three funding...
Taxpayers for Common Sense today released a report detailing the heavily subsidized biofuels industry's political clout.
The biofuels...
Another quarter, another unsurprising set of reports of huge profits for the oil companies. Continuing to be some of the most profitable...
The Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) was adopted by Congress in 1998 to leverage federal resources and...
The Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program was created in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to provide Treasury backed loan...
It is time to end the wasteful tradition of subsidizing the corn ethanol industry. Taxpayers for Common Sense joined a diverse coalition of...
Today, Taxpayers for Common Sense submitted comments to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease...
A large portion of the nation’s 600,000 bridges are in poor condition and require investment to repair or replace. Congress, by virtue of...
Passed as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Title XVII Loan Guarantee Program has $34 billion in...
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....
Taxpayers for Common Sense has been working hard to meet the challenge of that the so-called Super Committee is facing - $1.2-1.5...
Taxpayers for Common Sense has been working hard to meet the challenge of that the so-called Super Committee is facing - $.12-1.5...
Taxpayers for Common Sense is pleased to join National Resources Defense Council, Reason Foundation, and the American Bus Assocation in a...
This week marks the ten-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Our national security...
With extension of the nation's surface transportation program currently being debated in the halls of Congress, policymakers are...
The daunting challenges Congress faces in the next month regarding the nation's transportation programs when it returns next week:
1....
Tracking contracts in the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is daunting. DOD purchases more than $1 billion of goods and services every...
Taxpayers for Common Sense joined environmental, consumer watchdog, and free-market groups today to release Green Scissors 2011, which...
Oil and gas companies have complained that they pay an effective tax rate of 41%....
Congress has split town leaving an important deal unfinished. Yes, the debt ceiling got raised, but there’s another important piece of...
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released a report on federal loan guarantees for nuclear power plants, which seriously...
Big Oil, Big Corn: An in-depth look at the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit
Corn has been subsidized since the 1930s, but it was...
If the President and Congress cannot reach agreement by August 2nd to raise the debt ceiling and pay our national obligations, the...
Watchdog Groups Identify Nearly $600 Billion in National Security Spending Cuts
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The federal government could save...
Today, Taxpayers for Common Sense sent a letter to the House of Representatives urging strong reforms of the wasteful and outdated...
A small group Senators are attempting to snatch fiscal defeat from the jaws of taxpayer victory on ethanol subsidies. Last month the...
On the heels of the House's recent proposal, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today released a summary of its own...
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, chaired by Rep. John Mica (R-FL) today released an outline of its proposal for a...
WASHINGTON, D.C.///June 1, 2011///With Congress poised to move forward on more taxpayer-backed loan guarantees for nuclear, wind, solar,...
June 1, 2011
Taxpayers for Common Sense and Smart Growth America released a report highlighting smarter investments in road repair and...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) released “Subsidy Gusher: Taxpayers Stuck with Massive Subsidies while Oil and...
Transportation dollars are tight. The gasoline tax that we rely on to build and maintain our transportation networks isn’t enough to meet...
The Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC) is the largest subsidy to corn ethanol, the most common biofuel in the U.S. The tax...
A draft has started floating around of the Obama Administration's reauthorization proposal for the nation's transportation program....
In keeping with President Obama’s call to end fossil fuel subsidies, the latest budget proposal includes several significant cuts to oil,...
Billions of taxpayer dollars handed out by the Department of Transportation was distributed on the basis of a flawed selection process,...
Not that it’s anything to sneeze at, but HR1363 the “Department of Defense and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011” that the...
Two documents released recently do a great job framing the upcoming debate over reauthorization of the nation’s surface transportation...
The FY2012 Presidential Budget Request was released this morning. TCS staff will be posting relevant documents and analysis as we digest...
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...
Tax Expenditures
Total Cuts: $624 billion
Cuts Include:
Mortgage Interest Deduction
Cut: $390 billion
LIFO
Cut: $52.9...
Transportation
Total Cuts: $18.7 billion
The nation’s transportation system is broken, as the gasoline tax that each of us pays at the...
Energy
Total Cuts: $42 billion
Taxpayers have been subsidizing the same mature, polluting energy technologies for decades. Many...
NATIONAL SECURITY
Total Cuts: $95 billion
Total Achieved Savings: $7 billion
For too long, the defense budget was considered...
AGRICULTURE
Total Cut: $110 billion
Outdated and ineffective farm policies waste billions of federal funds each year, jeopardize...
Infrastructure
Total Cuts: $6 billion
For nearly two centuries, the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) has been a way for lawmakers to...
General
Total Cuts: $421+ million
Cuts Include:
Shift Congressional Pensions to Defined Contribution
Overseas Private Investment...
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...
We all know that lawmakers are allowed the occasional stretching of the truth, but at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources...
As the 112th Congress begins to tackle runaway deficits, government spending cuts, and congressional earmark bans, they will undoubtedly...
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...
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....
(Originally Posted 12/17/2010)
Taxpayers for Common Sense has completed an initial database of the 6,706 earmarks worth $8.3 billion...
(Originally Posted December 7)
Taxpayers for Common Sense, WashingtonWatch.com, and Taxpayers Against Earmarks teamed together to...
Also in attendance is Iowa State University economist Bruce Babcock.
Click hereClick herePolicy Briefs:
"Let the VEETC Expire:...
The draft recommendations released this week by the co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform propose...
Originally Posted 10/19/2010:
The FY2011 budget is a mess. Congress has not finished a single spending bill. The House has approved...
The Armed Services Committees are not the only Congressional bodies to see their memberships upended by the midterm elections.
The...
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...
As the dawn of the 112th Congress draws near, there are several reforms Congress should enact, regardless of which party is in control....
Congress’ failure to make any progress on energy policy this session is costing taxpayers....
Newspapers Across the Country Agree: End Ethanol Subsidies!
In light of TCS’ release of the Green Scissors 2010 Report on July 22 and...
Despite efforts to save billions by improving the way it does business, the Defense Department is not only still years away from being...
TCS joined with other nonprofit good government groups and several Washington lobbyists to hammer out some jointly agreed upon earmark...
March 13, 2009 Update: Version 5 is now available. This version includes member state and party, and also allows for a partisan...
Taxpayers for Common Sense joined a number of environmental and consumer groups and a bipartisan slate of Representatives today in...
Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced that the plan to build “FutureGen” a massive commercial “clean coal” facility in Mattoon,...
On July 22, the Senate Committee on Appropriations passed the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill. The $34.97 billion bill...
Late yesterday the Senate rejected the House passed Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Bill, which included $18 billion in new loan...
The Government Accountability Office released a new report today, finding that the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program...
On Wednesday, AREVA, a French nuclear power conglomerate, accepted a Department of Energy conditional loan guarantee of $2 billion for...
The scent of defense acquisition reform is heavy in the air again. Just don’t call it acquisition reform.
The Defense Department...
On February 16, 2010, the Department of Energy offered the first conditional nuclear loan guarantee of $8.3 billion to Southern Company...
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill has refocused Congress’ attention on energy and climate legislation. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid...
Big Oil has made Big Money over the last decade. In fact, the last five years proved to be some of the most profitable for any U.S....
(June 4, 2010) This week’s Memorial Day Congressional recess gave us a chance to peer under the lid of the House defense authorization...
Taxpayers for Common Sense and the Center for Responsive Politics have joined to release a comprehensive database that links campaign...
Today Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) will release their long awaited climate legislation, the American Power Act....
Read the text of the Department of Defense's Status Report on the Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) Plan
Download the PDF...
New Mexico is one of the most heavily mined states in the country, producing large amounts of perlite, copper, and other hardrock...
Yesterday at a Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, Energy Secretary Chu said an additional $9 BILLION in...
Taxpayers for Common Sense honor Senator Clare McCaskill (D-MO) and Rep. Jeff Flake (R-CA) with the "Mr. Smith" Award in recognition of their efforts to promote fiscal responsibility and eliminate wasteful governmental spending....
On March 17th, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development donned green ties for St. Patrick’s Day and met to...
In keeping with President Obama’s call to end fossil fuel subsidies, the latest budget proposal includes several significant cuts to oil,...
Analysis of Senate Energy and Natural Resources Full Committee Hearing March 3, 2010
In early March, the Senate Energy Natural...
Arizona is one of the most heavily mined states in the country, producing large amounts of copper, silver and other hardrock minerals....
Title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 authorized the Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program to provide loan guarantees for...
Earmarks have received a lot of attention in the media, in Congress, and around the water cooler. But despite the interest there is a good deal of disagreement about the definition of earmark, the role of earmarking in the budget process, whether it is an appropriate use of Congress's time, and whether earmarks serve the interests of taxpayers....
Earlier this week, the Senate passed its version of the jobs bill—a bill which is flawed from a transportation and taxpayer...
Updated 2:33pm
The Senate-passed jobs bill (Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act or the Jobs for Main Street Act) contains a...
On February 4th, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee held a hearing on the President’s FY2011 Department of Energy...
Click Here for the complete database of FY2010 Earmarks | Click Here for a pdf version of this analysis...
***Originally Posted January 29, 2010***
The Department of Energy announced in December 2009 that they would soon issue Treasury-backed...
An agreement was signed this week that settles a long-standing dispute about what to do with the North Shore Road in the Great Smoky...
The President’s proposed FY2011 Department of Agriculture (USDA) budget is $25.8 billion, slightly reduced from the FY2010 level of $26.9...
The Presidents fiscal year 2011 (FY2011) budget request includes a $28.4 billion discretionary budget for the Department of Energy (DOE)....
The President’s budget ends funding for the Yucca Mountain project, which was intended to be a permanent nuclear waste disposal site....
The President’s FY2011 budget proposal triples funding to the Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program. This includes $36 billion in...
Similar to last year’s budget request, the Fiscal year 2011 budget request eliminates several longstanding oil and gas subsidies. TCS is...
The day last April when Defense Secretary Robert Gates revealed the Defense Department’s 2010 budget has become known as “Black Monday.”...
It was payback time for President Obama this week when he threw down the gauntlet to tax-dodging contractors.Taxpayers pay contractors...
(December 17) The Senate will soon follow the House in passing a $636.3 billion Fiscal Year 2010 defense appropriations bill, the...
Eagle Bancorp, Inc. (Eagle Bancorp) is a bank holding company that provides general commercial and consumer banking services through its...
Founded in 1919 as the General Motors Acceptance Corporation, GMAC is an important company in both the auto and home finance...
The House of Representatives drove home a $447 billion omnibus spending bill yesterday loaded with six of the seven appropriations bills...
Preliminary disclosed earmark totals for the FY10 Omnibus:
Transportation/HUD:
1481
worth $1.207...
The American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009 (ACELA), S. 1462, as approved by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in...
Both the House and Senate have proposed the creation of the new federal financing entity known as the Clean Energy Deployment...
Discovered by German scientists during World War II, the Fischer-Tropsch process – referred to by the Department of Energy as...
What are federal loan guarantees?
Federal loan guarantees allow borrowers to receive a loan from an independent or federal lender with the...
For decades, hardrock mining companies have benefited from generous tax breaks at the expense of taxpayers, all the while extracting...
Despite being expensive, inefficient, and ineffective, hydrogen fuel cell technologies have received more than $1.4 billion in federal...
Oil and gas companies that drill offshore or on public lands are required to pay for the oil and gas they remove in the form of royalties. However, because of out-dated energy policy and mismanagement of royalty collection, oil and gas companies often pay little to no royalties to the owners of the resources—U.S. taxpayers. At a time when oil companies have experienced five years of record profits, there is no need to subsidize the industry with royalty holidays. With prices at more than $80/barrel, and predicted to increase, the industry has ample incentive to produce more oil without taxpayer subsidies. ...
(October 30) President Obama signed a $680 billion defense authorization bill this week—the largest such bill ever—with a declaration...
One of the most interesting—and neglected—sections of the annual defense authorization bill steers annual contracting policy both for DOD...
(October 21) Congress handed off a $42.8 billion appropriations bill funding the Department of Homeland Security through fiscal year 2010...
We commend Congressmen Jim McDermott (D-WA), Tom Petri (R-WI), and the current cosponsors of H.R. 3503, the Salmon Solutions and Planning...
What are federal loan guarantees?
Federal loan guarantees allow borrowers to receive a loan from an independent or federal lender with...
The president’s fiscal year 2010 budget repeals several long-standing oil and gas subsidies, saving an estimated $31.7 billion over the next ten years.i In addition, general tax and subsidy reforms will save $108.5 billion, largely from subsidies that benefit the oil and gas industries. For nearly a century, taxpayers have provided billions of dollars in subsidies to the oil and gas industry, this proposal takes the first step toward reining in decades of giveaways....
A recent GAO report found that there are at least 161,000 abandoned mines in western states. The research, conducted in the states of...
In a recent analysis on hardrock mining, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that among twelve western states, all assess...
**Update: September 16 -- For Fiscal Year 2010 Earmark Databases, click here**
Taxpayers for Common Sense and the Center for Responsive...
Southwest Bancorp, Inc., a financial holding company, provides commercial and consumer banking services in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas....
The Bancorp, Inc. is a financial holding company with a wholly owned subsidiary, The Bancorp Bank. The Bancorp Bank is headquartered in...
The Connecticut Bank and Trust Company is a Connecticut state bank and trust company, founded in 2004. The bank operates its headquarters...
LCNB Corp. operates as the holding company for Lebanon Citizens National Bank that provides commercial and personal banking services in...
State Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for State Bank of Long Island that provides general banking products and services,...
Southern Community Financial Corporation operates as the holding company for Southern Community Bank and Trust, which provides commercial...
State Street Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides a range of products and services for the institutional investors worldwide. It...
Somerset Hills Bancorp operates as the holding company for Somerset Hills Bank, which provides commercial banking services primarily in...
Sterling Bancorp operates as the holding company for Sterling National Bank that provides banking and financial products and services to...
Summit State Bank provides various commercial banking services to individuals and businesses in its primary service area of Santa Rosa,...
Sun Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Sun National Bank that provides a range of commercial and retail banking...
Superior Bancorp operates as a holding company for Superior Bank that offers banking and related services. It offers a range of retail and...
Shore Bancshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for The Centreville National Bank of Maryland; The Talbot Bank of Easton, Maryland;...
Security Federal Corporation operates as the holding company for Security Federal Bank, which provides various banking products and...
Tennessee Valley Financial Holdings, Inc. is the holding company for TNBank, a private bank based in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The bank five...
Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for Texas Capital Bank, National Association that provides various banking...
Security Bank of California offers a range of banking products and services to individuals and businesses primarily in California. Its...
Texas National Bank was chartered in 1985 and is locally owned and operated.
On January 9, 2009, the bank received $3,981,000 in exchange...
Santa Lucia Bancorp is the holding company for Santa Lucia Bank, which is headquartered in Atascadero, California and operates branch...
The Private Bank of California offers financial services for high net worth individuals; business owners; legal and financial...
On February 27, 2009, the Victory Bank received $541,000 in preferred stock with exercised warrants through the Capital Purchase Program....
Royal Bancshares of Pennsylvania, Inc. (Royal Bancshares) is a bank holding company for Royal Bank America and Royal Asian Bank, which...
The Freeport State Bank received $301,000 from the Capital Purchase Program in exchange for preferred stock with warrants on February 6,...
HF Financial Corp operates as the holding company for Home Federal Bank that provides consumer and commercial banking services in the...
First ULB received $4.9 million in preferred stock with exercised warrants on January 23, 2009 under the Capital Purchase Program. The...
Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina, Inc. is the holding company for Peoples Bank. The company is headquartered in Newton, North Carolina,...
Parkvale Financial Corporation operates as a holding company for Parkvale Savings Bank that provides various consumer and commercial...
Peoples Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Peoples Bank, National Association, which provides various financial services and...
Pacific Coast National Bancorp operates as the bank holding company for Pacific Coast National Bank that provides a range of commercial and...
Tidelands Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding company that operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Tidelands Bank. Its primary market...
Pulaski Financial Corp. is a holding company for Pulaski Bank, which serves the greater St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri areas. In...
OceanFirst Financial Corp.,Inc. is a holding company for OceanFirst Bank, based in Toms River, New Jersey. The company operates 20 branch...
The Tifton Banking Company is a locally owned and operated bank started in 2004. On April 17, 2009, Tifton Banking Company received...
Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. operates as the holding company for Pinnacle National Bank, which provides commercial banking services to...
Integra Bank Corporation operates as a holding company for Integra Bank N.A. that provides personal and commercial banking, investment and...
On April 3, 2009, Titonka Bancshares received $2,117,000 in exchange for preferred stock with exercised warrants under the Capital Purchase...
On February 6, 2009, Todd Bancshares received $4,000,000 in exchange for preferred stock with exercised warrants....
Triad Bancorp has one location in Frontenac, Missouri. On March 27, 2009, Triad Bancorp accepted $3,700,000 in exchange for preferred stock...
The Little Bank, Inc. serves the Lenoir, Wayne, Onslow, and Pitt county markets. It operates through its main office in Kinston, as well...
Trinity Capital Corporation is the sole shareholder of Los Alamos National Bank. On March 27, 2009, Trinity Capital Corporation received...
On April 3, 2009, Tri-State Bank of Memphis received $2,795,000 from the U.S. Treasury in exchange for preferred stock under the Capital...
On February 27, 2009, TriState Capital Holdings received $23,000,000 in exchange for preferred stock with exercised warrants under the...
The Bank of Kentucky Financial Corporation operates as the bank holding company for The Bank of Kentucky, Inc., which provides various...
Since the nation began using nuclear energy, the federal government has provided billions in subsidies to the industry. More than $85...
This fall, Congress is poised to consider an energy financing entity that would allow for the distribution of extensive loan guarantees and...
Tri-County Financial Corporation operates as the holding company of Community Bank of Tri-County. The company was founded in 1950 and is...
TriStone Community Bank offers general commercial and retail banking services in Winston-Salem area of North Carolina. The bank was...
United Bancorporation of Alabama, Inc. operates as the holding company for United Bank that offers commercial banking services to business...
First Manitowoc Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for First National Bank (bank) in Manitowoc, which engages in commercial and...
Uwharrie Capital Corp operates as the holding company for Anson Bank & Trust, Bank of Stanly, and Cabarrus Bank & Trust. The company,...
Early this year, Congressman Nick Rahall (D-WV) introduced H.R. 699, the Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2009. H.R. 699 would...
SCBT Financial Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides retail and commercial banking services, mortgage lending services, trust and...
The Bank of Currituck is an independent community bank serving northeastern North Carolina and parts of southeastern Virginia. The main...
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a hearing today entitled: “Recovery Act: 160-Day Progress Report for...
This week TCS released a letter to Congress supporting the Salmon Solutions and Planning Act. The legislation was introduced by...
Last month, the House Committee on Science and Technology held a hearing on nuclear fuel reprocessing. The hearing covered a range of...
Congaree Bancshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for Congaree State Bank, which provides various banking products and services to...
First Busey Corporation operates as a bank holding company for Busey Bank and Busey Bank, National Association that provide various retail...
The Obama Administration has put the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) on hold until further notice. GNEP, an international...
Another Huge Year
Exxon Mobil likes breaking records. In 2007, it posted the biggest annual profit number reported by any American...
The Administration’s regulatory restructuring proposals released in June envision the Federal Reserve taking on the role of Systemic Risk...
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Peter Orszag testified before the House Budget Committee yesterday on the Administration’s...
(June 26) We found 13 undisclosed earmarks worth $1.35 billion in the supplemental, including $904 million for seven C-130J aircraft,...
Title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 authorized the Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program to provide loan guarantees for...
Subsidies to the coal industry began in 1932, when the federal government allowed companies to deduct a portion of their income to help...
In 1932, the federal government began giving subsidies to the coal industry in order to help the industry recover initial capital...
After searching all 99 senate websites (remember the Coleman/Franken Minnesota race is still unresolved), we now have a complete database...
Chrysler LLC was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan. In 2007 Cerberus Capital Management took up managing...
On June 1st GM filed for bankruptcy protection in order to reorganize. Under the proceeding the company will receive access to an...
MutualFirst Financial, Inc. operates as the holding company for Mutual Federal Savings Bank, which provides various financial...
The FBI has subpoenaed various records and documents from Rep. Visclosky’s (D-IN) offices in relation to the previously raided PMA Group...
Monadnock Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company for Monadnock Community Bank, based in Peterborough, New Hampshire. In December 2008,...
MidSouth Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for MidSouth Bank, N.A., which provides commercial and retail community...
North Central Bancshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for First Federal Savings Bank of Iowa that offers banking services in...
Northeast Bancorp is a bank holding company for Northeast Bank, headquartered in Lewiston, Maine. The bank operates 11 banking branch...
MidWestOne Financial Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides retail and commercial banking products and services. It...
Manhattan Bancorp operates as the bank holding company for Bank of Manhattan, N.A. that provides general commercial banking services to...
MainSource Financial Group, Inc. is a financial holding company headquartered in Greensburg, Indiana, with three banking subsidiaries:...
Leader Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for Leader Bank N.A., headquartered in Arlington, MA. Leader Bank’s deposits are insured by...
HMN Financial, Inc. (HMN) is a stock savings bank holding company that wholly owns Home Federal Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank...
HopFed Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Heritage Bank that provides commercial banking services in southwestern...
LNB Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for The Lorain National Bank, which provides banking, mortgage, and brokerage services...
Heritage Oaks Bancorp is a holding company that owns all of the outstanding common stock of Heritage Oaks Bank (the Bank). Heritage Oaks...
Intervest Bancshares Corporation operates as a financial holding company for Intervest National Bank (bank) and Intervest Mortgage...
Home BancShares, Inc., a financial holding company, provides a range of commercial and retail banking, and related financial products and...
MetroCorp Bancshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for MetroBank, National Association; and Metro United Bank that provide...
LSB Corporation operates as the holding company for River Bank that provides various financial products and services to the general...
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The company recently announced that it had re-purchased its preferred stock from the Treasury Department. Independent paid $78.2...
Independent Bank Corporation, a bank holding company, provides commercial banking services primarily in Michigan. The company offers...
Lakeland Bancorp, Inc., through its subsidiary, Lakeland Bank, provides various commercial and consumer banking products and services...
ICB Financial, through its subsidiary Inland Community Bank, N.A. provides a range of commercial banking services primarily to small...
Hawthorn Bancshares, Inc. (Hawthorn) is a bank holding company. The Company’s activities are limited to ownership, indirectly through its...
Heritage Financial Corporation is a bank holding company. The Company is primarily engaged in the business of planning, directing and...
Heartland Financial USA, Inc. (Heartland) is a multi-bank holding company, having 10 bank subsidiaries in the states of Iowa, Illinois,...
Green Bankshares, Inc. serves as the bank holding company for GreenBank (the Bank), which is a Tennessee-chartered commercial bank that...
First Northern Community Bancorp is a bank holding company whose only subsidiary, First Northern Bank of Dixon (First Northern), a...
Flushing Financial Corporation serves as the holding company for Flushing Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank owns four subsidiaries:...
FPB Bancorp, Inc. serves as the bank holding company for First Peoples Bank (the Bank). The Bank offers a range of retail and commercial...
First Litchfield Financial Corporation is a bank holding company that operates through its wholly owned banking subsidiary, The First...
First M&F Corporation is a holding company that engages in the banking business through its wholly owned subsidiary, Merchants and...
First Financial Service Corporation is the holding company for First Federal Savings Bank of Elizabethtown (the Bank). The Bank is...
First Defiance Financial Corp. (First Defiance) is a unitary thrift holding company that, through its subsidiaries, focuses on...
First Financial Holdings, Inc. (First Financial) is a savings, loan holding and a financial holding company. It operates principally...
Farmers Capital Bank Corporation is a financial holding company. The Company’s subsidiaries provide a range of banking and bank-related...
First Bancorp is a bank holding company. The principal activity of the Company is the ownership and operation of First Bank (the Bank), a...
Emclaire Financial Corp. is a financial holding company that provides a range of retail and commercial financial products and services to...
First Community Bank Corporation of America is a unitary savings and loan holding company with one bank subsidiary, First Community Bank...
First Citizens Banc Corp. (FCBC) is a financial holding company. Though its subsidiaries, the Company is engaged in the business of...
Community Financial Corp. is a unitary savings and loan holding company that operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Community Bank...
In step with its earthy-crunchy neighbors, CalWest Bancorp is into "organic." To address its gofor al an expanded geographic presence in...
First Community Corporation serves as the bank holding company for its wholly owned subsidiary First Community Bank, N.A (the Bank). The...
Community Partners Bancorp (Community Partners) is a bank holding company. The Company’s wholly owned banking subsidiaries are Two River...
Financial Institutions, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Five Star Bank, which provides consumer and commercial banking and...
Enterprise Financial Services Corp. (EFSC) is a financial holding company. The Company provides a range of banking and wealth management...
Timberland Bancorp, Inc. was established for the purpose of becoming the holding company for Timberland Savings Bank, SSB (the Bank). The...
Taylor Capital Group, Inc., based in Rosemont, Illinois, serves as the holding company for Cole Taylor Bank, which is primarily engaged...
Codorus Valley Bancorp, Inc. (Codorus Valley) is a holding company with one wholly owned bank subsidiary, PeoplesBank, A Codorus Valley...
W.T.B. Financial Corp. is the bank holding company for Washington Trust Bank. Washington Trust is the largest privately held commercial...
Colony Bankcorp, Inc. (Colony) is a holding company. Colony provides, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, a range of products and...
Community Bankers Trust Corporation, formerly Community Bankers Acquisition Corp., is a bank holding company and a financial holding...
Bridge Capital Holdings is the holding company for Bridge Bank, National Association (the Bank), which engages in general commercial...
Citizens First Corporation is the bank holding company for Citizens First Bank (the bank). Citizens First Bank is headquartered in...
BNCCORP, Inc. is a bank holding company for BNC National Bank, with 20 locations in Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, North Dakota and...
Citizens Bancshares Corporation is the bank holding company of Citizens Trust Bank (the Bank). The Company was organized to facilitate...
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The company recently announced that it had re-purchased its preferred stock from the Treasury Department. Centra Financial paid...
Citizens & Northern Corporation is a holding company that is engaged in community banking. The Company is engaged in providing a range of...
CoBiz Financial Inc. (CoBiz) is a financial holding company headquartered in Denver, Colorado. The Company’s wholly owned subsidiary...
Coastal Banking Company, Inc. is a bank holding company that operates through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Lowcountry National Bank and...
BancTrust Financial Group, Inc. (BancTrust) is a multi-bank holding company. The Company provides an array of traditional financial...
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The company recently announced that it had re-purchased its preferred stock from the Treasury Department. Berkshire Hills paid...
Beach Business Bank, a small bank headquartered in Manhattan Beach, California, operates two branches, in Manhattan Beach and Long Beach....
Bar Harbor Bankshares is a bank holding company. The Company has one wholly owned operating subsidiary, Bar Harbor Bank & Trust (the...
BCSB Bankcorp Inc. is a federally chartered mid-tier stock holding company. BCSB Bankcorp owns all of Baltimore County Savings Bank,...
Bancorp Rhode Island, Inc. is the holding company for Bank Rhode Island (the Bank). It has no significant assets other than the common...
AmeriServ Financial, Inc. is a bank holding company that owns all of the outstanding shares of AmeriServ Financial Bank (the Bank). The...
Annapolis Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company that operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, BankAnnapolis (the Bank). The Bank...
Update (May 7, 2009): It has now been just over a month since the deadline for members to disclose on their websites all FY2010 earmark...
Through a combination of subsidies, trade restrictions, and government mandates a handful of corporate agribusinesses and oil companies...
Yadkin Valley Financial Corporation (Yadkin) is a bank holding company that operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Yadkin Valley...
Park National Corporation is a financial holding company. Its primary subsidiary is Park National Bank. The bank has branches in Ohio and...
Valley Financial Corporation is the holding company for Valley Bank (the Bank). Valley Bank conducts a general commercial banking...
S&T Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company. Its banking subsidiary is S&T Bank, which has 46 branch offices located in Allegheny,...
F.N.B. Corporation is a bank holding company for First National Bank, which operates in Pennsylvania and Ohio. FNB has expanded its scope...
Congress mandated the constuction of hundreds of miles of fencing along our Southern border in 2006 without any real knowledge of its...
Centrue Financial Corporation is a bank holding company that operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Centrue Bank (the Bank). The...
Alarion Bank provides financial products and services. The company offers personal and business banking services, including checking...
Space is crucial to our national security, and we’ve got the skyrocketing budgets to prove it. The United States spends billions on...
First Merchants Corporation is a financial holding company headquartered in Muncie, Indiana. It has 65 locations in Indiana and Ohio. It...
Anchor BanCorp Wisconsin Inc. is a savings and loan holding company, which operates through its wholly owned banking subsidiary,...
The boom finally lowered on the Pentagon’s budget today, with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates revealing the major weapons cuts...
On September 15, 2008 Bank of America acquired the investment bank Merrill Lynch.
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The company recently announced that it had re-purchased its preferred stock from the Treasury Department. FirstMerit paid $125...
Dickinson Financial Corporation is the holding company for Bank Midwest, as well as a number of military banks. Bank Midwest operates 70...
National Penn Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding for National Penn Bank, which provides banking services primarily in eastern and...
SVB Financial Group is a bank holding company for Silicon Valley Bank. SVB Financial Group operates 27 offices in the United States and...
Provident Bankshares Corporation is the bank holding company for Provident Bank. The Bank serves individuals and businesses through a...
PrivateBancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company for six banking subsidiaries, with 23 offices in Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Milwaukee,...
United Community Banks, Inc. is a bank holding company that conducts its operations through United Community Bank, Brevard, North...
MB Financial, Inc. (MB Financial) is a financial holding company with 73 banking offices located primarily in the Chicago area. The...
International Bancshares Corporation is a multi-bank financial holding company. Its primary banking subsidiary is IBC Bank. International...
East West Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding for East West Bank, which provides baking services at 70 branches in the Los Angeles...
Fulton Financial Corporation is a bank holding company for eleven community banks, in addition to two financial services companies and...
Flagstar Bancorp, Inc. is the largest publicly traded savings bank in the Midwest. Its subsidiary is Flagstar Bank. In October 2008, the...
First Banks, the holding company for The San Francisco Company, whose subsidiary, First Bank, is a privately owned bank held by Chairman...
Sterling Financial Corporation is a bank holding company for Sterling Savings Bank and Golf Savings Bank, with 178 branches in...
First BanCorp. is a financial holding company that owns FirstBank Puerto Rico (FirstBank or the Bank). The Company is a full service...
M&T Bank Corporation is a bank holding company for M&T Bank, which operates 704 branch offices in New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania,...
New York Private Bank and Trust is a bank holding company for Emigrant Bank, and is based in New York City. NYPBT is the 50th largest...
Goodness, the difference an economic crisis can make. A few years ago, advertisements by defense contractors arguing that the U.S. should...
Discover Financial Services is a financial services company with headquarters in Riverwoods, Illinois. It was founded in 1986 and is...
Northern Trust Corporation is a financial holding company for Northern Trust Company. The company has 85 offices in the United States and...
Popular, Inc. is a diversified bank holding company. The company operates in three target markets: Puerto Rico, the mainland United...
A look at the nuclear weapons budget in the omnibus reveals that while Congress is keeping nuke funding on a short leash, a controversial...
The President’s budget released last week includes $ 26.3 billion for the Department of Energy, a $2.1 billion increase over 2008 and...
UPDATE: March 4, 2009.
After reporting a $61.7 billion quarterly loss – the biggest single quarter loss ever – in early March AIG asked...
Today TCS explained the basics of the Department of Energy's loan guarantees program at an Institute for Energy and Environmental...
The First Bancorp, Inc., is the bank-holding company for The First, N.A., with headquarters in Damariscotta, Maine. The First Bancorp,...
The axe has fallen on the final version of the stimulus bill, and some national security spending ended up on the cutting room floor....
In late December 2008, shareholders of Wells Fargo and Wachovia agreed to Wells Fargo’s offer to buy Wachovia for $11.8 billion....
CIT Group Inc. (CIT) is a global commercial finance company that provides financial products and advisory services to more than one...
Over the last two decades, federal agencies have spent more than $8 billion on efforts to restore salmon to the Columbia and Snake River...
Cecil Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for Cecil Bank (the Bank). The Bank provides commercial banking services to individuals and...
Central Federal Corporation serves as the holding company for CFBank, a community-oriented savings institution. As of December 31, 2007,...
Central Jersey Bancorp, incorporated on March 7, 2000, is a bank holding company. The Company combined its two bank subsidiaries,...
Cache Valley Bank began as the Bank of North Park, with the name being changed to Cache Valley Bank in 1981. It is a privately owned...
Capital Bank, a subsidiary of Capital Bancorp, Inc., is a private community bank. Its deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit...
California Oaks (Cal Oaks) State Bank has $123 million in total assets and is located in Ventura County with offices in Thousand Oaks and...
Central Pacific Financial Corp. is a bank holding company that, through its banking subsidiary, Central Pacific Bank, offers full service...
C & F Financial Corporation (C & F Financial) is a bank holding company that owns all of the stock of its sole operating subsidiary, C&F...
Carolina Bank Holdings, Inc. was established for the purpose of serving as the bank holding company of Carolina Bank (the Bank), which is...
Bridgeview Bancorp is a privately owned community bank with headquarters in Bridgeview, Illinois. It operates more than 15 banking...
The transportation portion of the House stimulus package contains more than $43 billion for the Department of Transportation, including...
Crescent Financial Corporation is the bank holding company for Crescent State Bank, with 12 full service branch offices in Cary, Apex,...
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructs large water projects (dams, levees, pumping sand on beaches)...
Central Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company of Central Co-operative Bank, which provides commercial banking services in the northwestern...
The House and Senate agree on many of the national security-related agencies that should receive stimulus funding. The Defense...
Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida is a bank holding company for Seacoast National Bank. Seacoast National operates in...
Community West Bancshares is a bank holding company of Community West Bank, with five branches located in Goleta, Ventura, Santa Maria,...
Idaho Bancorp is the the holding company for Idaho Banking Company, which provides service to customers in southwestern Idaho. The...
Capital Bank Corporation is the holding company for Capital Bank in North Carolina. It operates 27 branch offices, including 5 branch...
Capital Pacific Bancorp operates as the holding company for Capital Pacific Bank, which provides banking services to businesses and...
Unity Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for Unity Bank, which has 17 branch offices. The company is based in Clinton, New Jersey....
Center Bancorp, Inc. is a one-bank holding company of The Union Center National Bank (the Bank) its principal subsidiary. As of the end...
1st Constitution Bancorp serves as the bank holding company for its wholly owned subsidiary 1st Constitution Bank (the Bank). It is...
Sandy Spring Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for Sandy Spring Bank, a community banking organization. The company is involved in...
Centerstate Banks of Florida, Inc. is a bank holding company, with 37 banking locations in 9 counties in the central Florida. The company...
Comerica Incorporated is a financial holding company, providing financial products and services throughout North America. As of the end...
1st Source Corporation is a bank holding company that provides, through its subsidiaries, an array of financial products and services....
Marshall & Ilsley Corporation (M&I) is a diversified financial services company with five bank and trust subsidiaries including its lead...
The South Financial Group, Inc. operates as the holding company for Carolina First Bank that provides a range of commercial and consumer...
Center Financial Corporation is the bank holding company for Center Bank. As of the end of 2007, it operated 18 branch offices and 8 loan...
State Street Corporation is one of the world’s largest global financial services companies, with $1.7 trillion in assets under management...
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The company recently announced that it had re-purchased its preferred stock from the Treasury Department. Washington Federal...
West Bancorporation, Inc. operates as the holding company for West Bank, which provides commercial banking products and services to...
On behalf of our combined memberships, we urge you to ensure the Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program is not granted...
StellarOne Corp., formerly Virginia Financial Group, Inc., is a bank holding company. StellarOne Corp has a network of 35 branches...
Morgan Stanley is a New York-based financial institution with operations on six continents. Along with Goldman Sachs, in late September...
American Express was founded in 1850 and is headquartered in New York, New York. It is known best for its global payments and travel...
Monarch Financial Holdings, Inc. is a bank holding company that operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Monarch Bank. The company...
Susquehanna Bancshares, Inc. is a financial holding company that operates through its subsidiaries in the mid-Atlantic region. The...
Southern Missouri Bancorp, Inc. is the parent company of Southern Missouri Bank & Trust Co. The Bank conducts its business from its...
How much does the United States spend on nuclear weapons? Seems like a simple question that the agency charged with tending our nuclear...
Mid Penn Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company for Mid Penn Bank. It operates 15 offices located in Dauphin, Northumberland,...
NewBridge Bancorp is a bank holding company located in Greensboro, North Carolina. NewBridge operates banks in North Carolina and...
Oak Valley Bancorp is a bank holding company for Oak Valley Community Bank, based in Oakdale, California. The company operates 12...
Patapsco Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company of The Patapsco Bank, with five full-service offices located in Dundalk, Parkville, Carney,...
Pacific Commerce Bank is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and serves the Japanese-American, Chinese-American, other...
Indiana Community Bancorp, formerly Home Federal Bancorp, is a bank holding company that operates through its wholly owned subsidiary,...
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation is a bank holding Company for Peapack-Gladstone Bank in New Jersey. It operates 21 full-service...
Old Line Bancshares, Inc. is a holding company for Old Line Bank, with its headquarters in Bowie, Maryland. The bank has a branch in...
Regions Financial Corporation is a financial holding company that operates throughout the South, Midwest and Texas, with approximately...
First Community Bancshares, Inc. is a holding company for First Community Bank which operates 57 banking locations in the states of...
Hampton Roads Bankshares, Inc. primarily serves as a holding company for the Bank of Hampton Roads, whose
primary service area...
First California Financial Group Inc., formerly known as National Mercantile Bancorp, is a bank holding company, for its wholly owned...
Horizon Bancorp is a bank holding company for Horizon Bank, which provides services in commercial banking. Horizon Bank operates two full...
Fidelity Southern Corporation is a bank holding company that operates primarily through its wholly owned subsidiary, Fidelity Bank....
Elmira Savings Bank operates as an independent community bank. The company has eleven banking offices: three in Elmira, three in Ithaca,...
Eastern Virginia Bankshares, Inc. is a bank holding company for EVB, which operates 23 service branches in eastern Virginia. EVB is a...
Fidelity Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company that provides a range of banking services through its wholly owned banking subsidiary,...
According to its website: “Saigon National Bank is a locally owned community bank devoted to serving the financial needs of the...
First Financial Bancorp is a bank holding company that engages in the business of commercial banking and other banking and...
Huntington Bancshares is a regional bank holding company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio with 600 regional banking offices in Indiana,...
TIB Financial Corp. is a financial holding company with several subsidiaries: TIB Bank, The Bank of Venice and Naples Capital Advisors,...
Seacoast Commerce Bank services businesses and individuals in Chula Vista and San Diego County, California. The bank is headquartered...
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The company recently announced that it had re-purchased its preferred stock from the Treasury Department. Alliance paid $27.2...
Cadence Financial Corporation is a financial holding company, with assets consisting primarily of its investment in Cadence Bank. Cadence...
Wainwright Bank & Trust Company is a banking company based in Boston, Massachusetts. As of December 2007, Wainwright operated 10...
The Treasury Department just released terms for the bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler. Taxpayers for Common Sense staff will be...
City National Bank is a wholly-owned subsidiary of City National Corporation and is based in Beverly Hills, California. It operates 62...
Citizens South Banking Corporation is the holding company for Citizens South Bank. Citizens South Bank has 14 full-service branch offices...
BNC Bancorp operates as the holding company for Bank of North Carolina, which provides banking products and services in Cabarrus,...
NOTE: Dime Community Bancshares was approved to receive $77.3 million from the Treasury Department through the Capital Purchase Program,...
CVB Financial Corp. serves as the holding company of Citizens Business Bank. The bank’s customers consist primarily of small to mid-sized...
Commerce National Bank offers commercial banking services in Orange County, California. The bank was founded in 2003 and is headquartered...
Encore Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding company for Encore Bank headquartered in Houston, Texas. As of December 31, 2007, it operated...
1st Financial Services Corporation operates as the bank holding company for Mountain 1st Bank & Trust Company. The company, headquartered...
Trustmark Corporation is a multi-bank holding company whose primary subsidiary is Trustmark National Bank (TNB). Trustmark conducts...
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The company recently announced that it had re-purchased its preferred stock from the Treasury Department. Bank of Marin paid $28...
Ameris Bancorp is a financial holding company for the Ameris Bank, operating 46 banking offices in Georgia, Alabama, northern Florida,...
Bank of the Ozarks, Inc. is a bank holding company which owns Bank of the Ozarks. Bank of the Ozarks conducts operations through 65...
Blue Valley Ban Corp. (Blue Valley) is a financial holding company for its primary wholly owned subsidiary, Bank of Blue Valley. The bank...
Since the beginning of nuclear energy the federal government has provided billions in handouts to the industry. More than $85 billion has...
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Wintrust Financial Corporation is a financial holding company that controls 15 subsidiaries that serve customers in the greater Chicago,...
Tennessee Commerce Bancorp, Inc. is the bank holding company of Tennessee Commerce Bank. Tennessee Commerce is headquartered in Franklin,...
WesBanco, Inc. operates as the holding company for WesBanco Bank, Inc. WesBanco operates 115 banking offices in West Virginia, Ohio, and...
Severn Bancorp is a savings and loan holding company. Its principal subsidiary is Severn Savings Bank. Severn operates in Maryland,...
Old National Bancorp is a financial services holding company based in Evansville, Indiana. Its subsidiary, Old National Bank, provides...
TowneBank, based in Portsmouth, Virginia, offers banking services throughout the Hampton Roads region in Southeastern, Virginia. The...
Heritage Commerce Corp is the holding company for Heritage Bank of Commerce. They are located in San Jose, California. The bank was...
Whitney Holding Corporation is a bank holding company based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The company is the parent of Whitney National...
The following is a summary of the non-consumer energy tax breaks included in H.R. 1424, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008....
Boston Private Financial, Inc. is a holding company located in Boston, Massachusetts. The company owns a number of financial services...
Cathay General Bancorp is the holding company for Cathay Bank, which is located in the Chinatown area of Los Angeles, CA. According to...
KeyCorp is a national financial services company based in Cleveland, Ohio. It is the parent company of KeyBank which has branches in 13...
Columbia Banking System, Inc. is a bank holding company headquartered in Tacoma, Washington. Columbia operates 55 banks branches in parts...
BB&T is a regional financial holding company. The core of its business and franchise was created by the merger of equals between BB&T and...
Cascade Financial Corp. is a bank holding company for Cascade Bank, which operates in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. In...
Wilshire Bancorp is a bank holding company for Wilshire State Bank, headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The bank has branch offices...
Citizens Republic Bancorp is a bank holding company headquartered in Flint, Michigan. In addition to Michigan, it has banks in Wisconsin,...
IBERIABANK Corp. is the holding company for IBERIA Bank and Pulaski Bank and Trust. IBERIABANK Corp. received approval in early...
Just months after a new multi-billion dollar five year farm bill was passed into law, a federal watchdog reports that individuals who are...
Great Southern Bancorp Inc. is a holding company based in Springfield, Missouri. Great Southern has been approved to receive up to $60...
Nara Bancorp is the holding company for Nara Bank, located in Los Angeles, California. Nara was begun as a community bank intended to...
TCF Financial Corp. recently announced that it would participate in the Treasury Department’s Capital Purchase Program, and expects to...
Broadway Financial Corporation announced in November that it received $9 million under the Treasury Department’s Capital Purchase...
Wilmington Trust Corporation, based in Wilmington, DE, is a financial holding company whose primary subsidiary is Wilmington Trust...
Peoples Bancorp is a bank holding company based in Ohio with bank branches in Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky. In early November,...
Western Alliance Bancorporation, headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, is a bank holding company. According to its website, Western...
New York City-based Signature Bank is a full-service commercial bank with 21 private client offices in and around New York City....
Simmons First National Corporation is a financial holding company based in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The primary banking subsidiary is...
Synovus is a Columbus, Georgia based financial services holding company that recently announced its participation in the Treasury...
Intermountain Community Bancorp is a bank holding company located in Idaho. It is the bank holding company for Panhandle State Bank, the...
Banner Corporation is a Washington based bank holding company with banks in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. In a November 4th press...
First Horizon National Corporation is a holding company for First Tennessee Bank National Association and other banking-related...
Webster Financial Corporation is a bank holding company headquartered in Waterbury, Connecticut. Its banking subsidiary is Webster Bank,...
Bank of Commerce Holdings, based in Redding, California, is the holding company for Redding Bank of Commerce and several other related...
Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc. is a bank holding company operating in the greater Chicago metropolitan area. In early November, Midwest...
Pacific Capital Bancorp is a bank holding company of Pacific Capital Bank, N.A., which operates 48 branches under several brand names...
Porter Bancorp, headquartered in Louisville, KY, is a bank holding company whose subsidiary, PBI Bank, has nineteen branches in twelve...
First Midwest Bank began in Joliet, Illinois and continues to serve the southern Chicago suburbs and the Quad Cities area. Their...
The Bank of New York Mellon was established in 2007 with the merger of Mellon Financial Corporation and The Bank of New York Company,...
PNC is a Pittsburgh-based bank that is among the largest of U.S. banks. It received $7.7 billion under the Treasury Department’s Capital...
SunTrust Banks Inc. is a bank holding company based in Atlanta, G. The corporation’s largest subsidiary is SunTrust Bank which has 1,700...
Associated Banc-Corp (ABC) is a bank holding company with headquarters in Green Bay, Wisconsin. ABC is the 37th largest bank holding...
First PacTrust Bancorp is a holding company and holds all the stocks for Pacific Trust Bank. It is located in Chula Vista, California. In...
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The company recently announced that it had re-purchased its preferred stock from the Treasury Department. First Niagara paid...
J.P. Morgan Chase is a New York based financial services company with worldwide operations. J.P. Morgan Chase is the umbrella brand that...
UCBH Holdings is the holding company for United Commercial Bank, Ltd (UCB). In October it announced that it would participate in the...
Valley National Bank is a federally chartered commercial bank operating 195 branches in parts of northern and central New Jersey and some...
Fifth Third (5/3) Bank is a Cincinnati, Ohio-based corporation, and one of the largest money managers in the Midwest with 1,300 branches...
Umpqua Bank is a community bank with 147 branches across Oregon, Washington and California. Umpqua is based in the Portland, Oregon...
Taxpayer subsidies to the oil and gas industry have played a major role in U.S. energy policy since 1916. Two of the largest tax breaks,...
U.S. Bancorp, a financial services holding company, is the parent company of U.S. Bank, which is the country’s sixth largest bank,...
Capital One Financial is a financial services company whose products and services include consumer and commercial banking and credit card...
Zions Bancorporation is expected to receive $1.4 billion in bailout funds from the Department of the Treasury.
Zions is a financial...
On October 28, 2008, Goldman Sachs received $10 billion of the first $125 billion from the $700 billion bailout bill. Goldman Sachs is a...
President-elect Barack Obama’s new transition web site is pledging to review every major defense program for possible cuts, and...
Nuclear fuel reprocessing is the process of collecting nuclear waste to recover and reuse plutonium and uranium. Despite decades of...
As was the case for much of the last decade, profits for major oil and gas companies continue to skyrocket. Exxon brought in over $14...
The Treasury Department has released its first bailout “transaction report,” which documents where $125 billion of the $700 billion in...
The following is an exhaustive list of defense exhibits introduced in the trial against Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), which concluded last week...
The Senate passed the bailout bill 74-25 this evening. Here is the rollcall for the vote.
This is what we had to say about the Senate...
TCS staff have scoured the web and wires for press releases or other official statements on the bailout from United States Senators in...
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Note: The afternoon testimony was cancelled due to a problem with a juror. Allen will be back on the stand...
President George W. Bush signed a massive year-end spending bill late Tuesday, just hours before a new fiscal year began. The "Minibus"...
The latest version of the bailout bill was just released. Read it here.
Additional resources (we're adding more as we find them, so...
As Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) sat today in a federal courthouse while jurors were chosen in the federal trial against him, he received at...
Today the House passed a Continuing Resolution and a minibus that included the final FY09 Defense spending bill, which had 6 earmarks for...
After a bit of speed reading, TCS staff came up with earmark totals for the CR/Def/DHS/MilCon bill that was released 13 hours ago. These...
It’s slow going looking through the earmarks, but here’s a few – some are repeat customers and some are rookie earmarks. More to...
Late last night, the House released the more than $600 billion FY09 CR/MiniBus legislation, to fund much of the government through early...
Update--September 23
Our transparency in government allies at Open CRS obtained a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report The Cost...
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) has drafted a replacement legislative package to the Administration's proposed bailout plan. With a quick glance...
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposed rule for Oil Shale Management. Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) is a non-partisan...
The House Appropriations Committee has just released the earmark request letters for the 2009 Department of Homeland Security...
The following are links to TCS's analysis and database for each of the FY09 appropriations bills. (Note: With the exception of House...
This morning the federal government (which means you the American taxpayer) became the not-so-proud owner of American International Group...
The Senate is expected to pass the 2009 Defense Authorization Bill sometime tonight, but to do so they will have to resolve a raucous...
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) requested 326 projects worth $860.6 million between FY2006 and FY2008, according to a Taxpayers for Common Sense...
Under intense pressure from the oil and natural gas industry, the Minerals Management Service (MMS)1 started the Royalty-in-Kind (RIK)...
Since the late 1970’s, the federal government has funneled billions of dollars into “Clean Coal” technology and programs designed to make...
Below are links to the monthly “Supplemental and Cost of War Execution Reports” compiled by the Defense Accounting Finance Service, DOD’s...
The Department of Defense paid contractors $13 billion for operations in Afghanistan between 2003 and 2007, according to documents...
110th Congress By the Numbers
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House or Senate Resolutions...
TCS staff have taken a moment to reflect on the activities of the 110th Congress. Below is a list of some of their more "notable"...
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) got a lot of jaws dropping this week with a report estimating the U.S. has spent $85 billion on...
The Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY2009 Energy and Water appropriations bill contains 1,480 earmarks worth $3.50 billion (click here...
The 2009 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Bill contains 7 earmarks worth $35.4 million dollars (click here...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report tabulating U.S. and Iraqi expenditures on rebuilding efforts (click here for...
The Senate Appropriations Committee included 307 earmarks worth about $197.2 million in the Fiscal Year 2009 Agriculture Appropriations...
The House of Representative today passed a bill to fund Military Construction and Veterans Affairs programs in fiscal year 2009 contains...
Overview
For over 70 years American taxpayers have been doling out billions of dollars every year to underwrite the agriculture sectors’...
Washington, D.C. – The following is a written Statement by Ms. Ryan Alexander, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense:
It has come to our...
Well, the House Appropriations Committee filed the Military Construction spending bill. This is the first show of actually moving bills...
The FY 2009 Senate Financial Services Appropriations bill contains 90 earmarks worth $221.3 million (click here to view the database)....
TCS followers know we have argued for increased oversight of defense spending, particularly spending on contracts. The federal...
The FY 2009 House Energy and Water Appropriations bill contains 1,465 congressional earmarks for a total cost of more than $3.1 billion...
July 23, 2008
Dear Representative:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action urges you to oppose H.R. 6532, which would transfer $8 billion from...
The FY 2009 Senate Labor-Health and Human Services-Education Appropriations bill contains 942 earmarks for a total cost of more than $847...
The FY 2009 Senate Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) appropriations bill contains 552 earmarks worth $471.4 million, according to an...
The FY 2009 House Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations bill contains 1,126 earmarks worth $442,562,000. That is a decrease of 13...
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 established the Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program to grant loan guarantees for innovative...
The FY 2009 House Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill contains 1371 earmarks for a total cost of $619,187,000. The number of projects...
The 2009 House Financial Services Appropriations bill contains 197 earmarks for a total of $57 million (click here to see the database)....
The Senate version of the 2009 Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill includes 19 congressional earmarks for a total of...
Last week, our good friends at the Project on Government Oversight released a new report that chronicled cronyism in grant making in the...
This is the first in a series of state specific analyses Taxpayers for Common Sense is completing on energy industry subsidies, profits and...
The supplemental appropriations bill funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan got fast-tracked through the House yesterday in preparation...
Big week on Capitol Hill for the Department of Homeland Security. On Monday, Secretary Michael Chertoff touted his agency's achievements...
A bill recently passed by the House increases the number of Defense Authorization earmarks by more than 20% from last year, according to...
Utah Mining Giveaways
Under the 135 year old Mining Law of 1872, valuable taxpayer lands and minerals are virtually given away to...
**First posted Feb. 14, 2008**
Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) staff and interns have devoted thousands of hours to researching,...
With board members jumping ship, the governor asking tough questions, and the cost estimate ballooning, the logical conclusion is that...
Congress disclosed 11,234 earmarks worth $14.8 billion in this year’s spending bills. An additional $3.5 billion worth of earmarks were...
TCS fights to keep unnecessary subsidies, loopholes and tax breaks out of America's energy policy
For more than a decade, TCS has led the...
Taxpayers for Common Sense works with a broad range of groups to enact significant farm policy reform. With the farm bill up for...
The earmark disclosure debutantes are making their way to the floor today in the technical correction bill for SAFETEA-LU (H.R....
1. If it doesn't work, don't fund it.
2. Eliminate redundant expenditures.
3. Stop helping those who don't need help.
4. Get a fair price...
The coal industry received more than $9 billion in loans, research funds, tax breaks and other subsidies in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. ...
The 2009 defense authorization bill headed for the House floor this week has already raised a ruckus over earmarks, and there’s a lot to...
While the House Armed Services Committee marks up the 2009 National Defense Authorization Act, TCS staff is scouring the report just...
Written Statement by Ms. Ryan Alexander, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense on the House passage of the farm bill conference report....
Dear Congressman,
We urge you to vote no on the farm bill conference report, the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 that is...
Dear Congressman,
We urge you to vote no on the farm bill conference report, the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 that is...
The Honorable George W. Bush
President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
Congress...
The Honorable George W. Bush
President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
Congress appears...
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Madam Speaker:
Taxpayers for...
May 7, 2008
Dear Senator:
The Senate is currently considering S. 2284, the Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2008. Taxpayers...
Support Congressmen Flake’s and Ryan’s Motions to Instruct Farm Bill Conferees
Dear Representative,
As the farm bill conference process...
Washington, D.C. – Today Senators Feingold (D-WI), Sununu (R-NH), Cantwell (D-WA), and Gregg (R-NH) led a bi-partisan push for the...
The FY09 Senate appropriations bill providing money for transportation and Housing and Urban Development projects contains 609 earmarks...
Fair Compensation for Taxpayers
For more than 8 decades the coal, oil, and natural gas industries have all paid royalties for the right...
As November draws closer, an increasing number of overpriced defense programs are running for cover in the Defense Department budget,...
Things on a earmark moratorium/reform are very fluid. We are hearing that Speaker Pelosi’s frustration with the earmark issue may end up...
In a letter where you can almost hear his frustration, Appropriations Chairman asked the members of the House to check off whether they...
Below is a copy of the proposal reportedly put forth the by the Bush Administration over the weekend. It’s hard to say whether this is...
Boeing’s loss of the tanker aircraft contract to Northrop Grumman and EADS North America last week represents much more than the contract’s...
February 29, 2008 -- After consultation with Sen. Obama’s staff, TCS determined that a $7,227,500 project should be added to the database...
The President’s response to House and Senate conference committee negotiators. The President proposed 13 potential offsets to pay for...
The Honorable George W. Bush
President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
Congress appears...
February 2008 letter to House Speaker and Minority leader, and Agriculture Committee chairman and ranking member. Letter is from 14...
The Honorable George W. Bush
President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
Congress appears...
February 2008 letter to House Speaker and Minority leader, and Agriculture Committee chairman and ranking member. This letter is from 14...
Despite reform, new database finds that Congress hasn’t lost its appetite for pork
Washington, D.C. – Congress has cut earmarks by 23...
TCS has rolled out our FY08 earmarks database. Now you can peruse and search 11,234 Congressional earmarks worth $14.8 billion. But wait,...
The Honorable Edward Schafer
Secretary of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, DC...
February 6, 2008
6:05 p.m. -- Beyond invoking Congressional wrath by not requesting a year’s worth of emergency supplemental spending with the White House...
12:05 p.m. -- Here is a link to the (pdf | 1.16 MB).
One key complaint of Ranking Member Sen. Gregg (R-NH) is that the budget fails to...
11:30 a.m. -- A program to recapitalize a large portion of the agency’s ships, aircraft and communications -- got a more than 20% bump up...
Feb. 4, 10:30 a.m. -- In their final budget, the Bush Administration keeps up the pressure on the Corps of Engineers, providing the agency...
6:50 p.m. -- The budget predicts a deficit of $407 billion in FY09 (and a FY08 deficit of $410 billion), a figure that just squeaks under...
10:50 a.m. -- These talking points were just emailed to us. Wanted to make sure that you had a chance to see them....
The administration’s 2009 budget for the Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program requests $38.5 billion in loan guarantee...
SBInet, the DHS program tasked with providing the fence’s technological elements such as cameras and sensors, received $775 million. Though...
Feb. 4, 4:50 p.m. -- The administration is proposing $123 million more than Congress enacted in FY2008 for the Global Nuclear Energy...
Feb. 4, 12:25 p.m. -- In what seems to be a budget rite of passage, the administration has proposed billions of cuts to Congress’ pet...
Summary: Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2009 contains the Budget Message of the President, information on the...
From surfing subsidies to the Great Wall of Bedford, Indiana, Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire’s Golden Fleece Award protected...
Good morning Chairman Bingaman, Ranking Member Domenici, members of the Committee. Thank you for the opportunity to testify before you...
We’ve heard a lot today about how much the Democrats have cut earmarks over previous year levels. First off, we want to congratulate them...
Lawmakers are not generally shy about taking credit for the presents they bring home to their districts at the end of the year. That’s...
In the wee hours this morning, the omnibus emerged from the bowels of the Capitol to be posted on the House Rules site:
Speed readers...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Ryan Alexander, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense, on the Omnibus...
During this afternoon’s always entertaining colloquy between House Majority Leader Hoyer and Minority Whip Blunt on the House schedule,...
While House Appropriations Cardinals are supposedly shaking the spending trees to find programs to cut from the end-of-the-year...
What I'm hearing is that no one really knows what the next step is for Congressional Democrats to close the door on the FY08 spending...
Since the beginning of nuclear energy the federal government has provided billions in handouts to the industry. Nuclear power has received...
Here’s one possible scenario: The Omnibus spending bill appears tomorrow, runs through a revolving door at the Rules committee, and makes a...
posted by Steve Ellis, 202-546-8500 ext. 126
TCS Vice-President, Steve Ellis, just got back from touring the Lower Ninth ward in New...
The specter of war supplementals hovered over the Capitol this week, given weight by threats from Defense Secretary Robert Gates that...
Dear Representative,
On behalf of our combined memberships, we urge you to support stringent budget caps on the Department of Energy...
In 1997, The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers published the results of its economic evaluation of a proposed lock to replace the existing lock...
TCS’s database of earmarks in the Transportation-Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill have landed with a THUD on our web...
While databasing the earmarks that made it into the 2008 defense appropriations bill signed by President Bush last weekwe discovered that,...
Now Congress is into full appropriations swing – that is until they take off for Thanksgiving. For your viewing pleasure...
Increasing reliance has been placed on federal government-backed private loan guarantees as a vehicle to fund private business enterprise....
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Steve Ellis, Vice President of Taxpayers for Common Sense on the President...
It’s a Friday afternoon, but I thought you might be interested in another veto statement from a few years back. The WRDA bill was called...
While members of Congress hashed out the conference agreement on the Fiscal Year 2008 defense appropriations bill, the Navy was apparently...
Dear Senator,
We urge you to oppose the inclusion of language in the final energy bill exempting the Department of Energy (DOE) Loan...
Dear Representatives Obey and Lewis, and Senators Byrd and Cochran:
As two organizations which have been critical of earmark abuses, we...
End a 135 Year Old Taxpayer Giveaway
Support the Reform of the General Mining Law of 1872
Vote “YES” on H.R. 2262
Dear...
Washington, D.C. (October 26, 2007) - Since President Bush released his latest addition to the burgeoning FY2008 war supplemental on...
The documents released this week by the White House and Department of Defense explaining how they will spend the new $42.3 billion addition...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a statement by Ms. Ryan Alexander, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action)...
TCS Applauds Hinchey Amendment Securing Royalty Reforms in Mining Legislation
Washington, DC -- The following is a written statement by Ms....
The federal government has relied primarily on two policy tools in recent years to help mitigate the financial losses experienced by crop...
Washington, D.C. – The following is a statement by Ms. Ryan Alexander, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS), on TCS’s...
Dear Senator,
Taxpayers for Common Sense urges you to reject an amendment to the FY09 Defense Appropriations bill proposed by Sens. Kyl,...
The FRESH act introduced by Senators Lugar and Lautenberg, and co-sponsored by Senators Cardin, Menendez, Reed, Hatch, Collins and...
The Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Chairwoman
The Honorable Doc Hastings, Ranking Member
House Committee on Standards of Official...
TCS has just discovered that Senate leadership gutted earmark transparency rules that had initially passed the Senate 98-0.
S. 1, the...
Dear Senator:
We write in strong opposition to the final conference version of H.R. 1495, the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of...
Dear Senator:
Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) urges you to support Sens. James Webb (D-VA) and Claire McCaskill’s (D-MO) Wartime Contract...
Mine Companies Enchanted by New Mexico Giveaways
Under the 135 year old Mining Law of 1872, valuable taxpayer lands and minerals are...
Dear Senator:
Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) Action urges you to oppose amendments to the Defense Authorization Bill (H.R.1585) that...
Overview
Under the General Mining Law of 1872, mining companies pay no royalties to the federal government for hardrock minerals extracted...
H.R. 2262 Provides Overdue Mining Reforms
Mining Industry Struck Gold with Century-Old Giveaways
One hundred and thirty-five years ago,...
You may have heard about the $10 million earmark for a Florida highway interchange that Rep. Don Young (R-AK) included the 2005 highway...
Request a complete list of Senate Financial Services Earmarks
(mailto: info@taxpaye.net)
For your summer reading pleasure we have posted all the earmarks in the House FY08 Defense and Agriculture spending bills. And I can assure...
Dear Representative:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action urges you to oppose any measures adding mandates, loan guarantees or other...
Congress is racing the clock to pass earmark and ethics reform before they skip town for a month long vacation. For a bill that’s supposed...
Dear Leader McConnell:
I'm writing to request that you ask Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) to temporarily recuse himself from his committee...
Good morning Chairman Costa, Ranking Member Pearce, members of the Subcommittee. Thank you for inviting me to testify this morning on H.R....
Good morning Chairman Costa, Ranking Member Pearce, members of the Subcommittee. Thank you for inviting me to testify this morning on H.R....
Dear Representative:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action) urges you to support Rep. Lloyd Doggett’s (D-TX) amendment to strike a...
To help you follow the CJS debate, TCS has released our database (MORE THAN 1100 EARMARKS IN HOUSE COMMERCE-JUSTICE-SCIENCE SPENDING BILL)...
Dear Representative:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action) urges you to support Rep. Lloyd Doggett’s (D-TX) amendment to strike a...
Washington, D.C. - The House FY08 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies Appropriations bill contains more...
TCS has plowed through the more than 1,400 earmarks worth nearly $2.2 billion in the aptly named THUD spending bill. Congress contributed...
Here’s one reason why Rep. Obey’s amendment to eliminate all the earmarks in the Labor/HHS bill failed last night. Actually here are 1,342...
So the House Energy and Water spending bill approved yesterday included 1,010 earmarks worth $3.2 billion. We think that’s a lot, but then...
So 1,759 earmarks and $3.8 billion later we finished our database of the Senate Energy & Water Appropriations bill. It's a doozy. Twenty...
TCS has completed our analysis and database of the Senate CJS appropriations bill.
Even in the minority, Sen. Shelby (R-AL) knows how to...
Just so you don't think recess means relaxation for TCS, we've just released our findings and database on the FY08 Senate Interior Approps...
The TCS analysis and database of the House FY08 Financial Services bill (TCS ANALYSIS OF FY08 HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES APPROPRIATIONS BILL)...
Dear Representative:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action urges you to support amendments from Representative Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and others to...
I wanted to alert you that TCS has released our analysis and database of the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations (TCS ANALYSIS OF FY08...
The Honorable Byron Dorgan
Chairman
Senate Appropriations Committee
The Capitol, S-131
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Chairman...
For your weekend reading pleasure, please find the link below to TCS's initial analysis of the House FY08 Interior Appropriations bill....
Dear Senator:
We are writing to urge you to vote for the Wyden-Sununu Amendment to the energy bill currently being debated by the Senate....
Hmmm. What do the FY08 Legislative Branch (TCS Analysis of House Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill) and FY08 State and Foreign...
Dear Representative,
The law that governs precious metal mining on federal land is 135 years old and it is time for it to be updated. Rep....
As promised TCS is churning through the appropriations bills. We've just completed our
analysis of the Senate MilCon/VA appropriations...
Dear Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Reid, Minority Leader Boehner, Minority Leader McConnell:
As you have probably read this week,...
Dear Member of Congress:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action) urges you to support Representative Robert Andrews’ (D-NJ) and...
An AP story (http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-06-13-congress-spending_N.htm) seems to indicate there has been a step back from...
Washington, D.C. – The following is a written statement by Ms. Ryan Alexander, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense, on the introduction...
The House has taken up the rule governing the debate on the
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill
, (TCS ANALYSIS OF THE...
For Immediate Release
June 11, 2007
Contact: Steve Ellis
202-546-8500 x126
TCS ANALYSIS OF THE HOUSE FY2008 DEPARTMENT OF
HOMELAND...
Posted by Laura Peterson, June 8, 2007
Additional Information...
Okay, I have to admit that I thought that Chairman Obey's bluster about not including earmarks was going fall by the wayside during the...
Dear Natural Resources Committee Member:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action urges you to oppose amendments to weaken key provisions in...
When the House of Representatives passed new rules just a few days into the new Congress requiring lawmakers to disclose the earmarks...
OMB Director Portman sent a memo to Heads of Departments and Agencies today. He is directing them to track earmarks in the FY08 spending...
posted by Laura Peterson, May 23, 2007
With little fanfare, defense earmarks made their public debut in the House Armed Services Committee...
Both CongressDaily and Roll Call (Steven Dennis' article from today pasted in at bottom) have reported that House Appropriations Chairman...
Rep. Rogers (R-MI) is bringing a privileged resolution to the floor to reprimand Rep. Murtha (D-PA) for threatening to eliminate any...
We have completed compiling all the WRDA earmarks - all 438 of them - and their sponsors into a database. The Water Resources Development...
Dear Blue Dog Caucus Member:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action) commends you and the Blue Dog Caucus for drawing attention to...
Dear Chairman Peterson and Ranking Member Goodlatte:
During reauthorization of the 2007 Farm Bill, we strongly urge you to...
May 14, 2007
Dear Blue Dog Caucus Member:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action) commends you and the Blue Dog Caucus for drawing...
Dear Senator:
On behalf of the nearly one million members of our organizations, we write in strong opposition to the Senate version of the...
Testimony of Steve Ellis, Vice President, Taxpayers for Common Sense before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's hearing on...
Congress beat us. Less than 43 hours after the Conference Report filed the House and Senate sent $124.2B in "emergency" spending to the...
Dear Member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee:
Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) urges you to reform the Coast...
The House started debating the Rule governing consideration at 6:10, that means if all follows form they Supplemental itself will be on the...
Senate Appropriations Chairman Byrd (D-WV) announced earlier today that the Appropriations Committee will be disclosing earmarks beginning...
Today, OMB updated their new online earmark database. If you recall, OMB's database went live a few weeks ago with incomplete data and...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) continues outdated, depression-era farm subsidy policies that funnel billions of dollars to...
Washington, D.C. – The following is a written statement by Ryan Alexander, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense, on Senate passage of...
Dear Senator:
Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) Action urges you to support amendments to cut, or at least offset, non-emergency spending...
Good morning Chairman Rahall and distinguished members of the committee. Thank you for the opportunity to testify today. My name is...
Good morning Chairman Rahall and members of the committee. Thank you for the opportunity to testify today. My name is Ryan Alexander...
Dear Representative:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action urges you to support Representative Jeff Flake’s (R-AZ) amendments to cut wasteful...
Today, the House passed an emergency spending bill that weighed in $21 billion heavier than President’s $103 billion proposal. House...
Lawmakers have already exploited a loophole in the new transparency rules that appear to allow 'immaculate conception' earmarks.
Let me...
The House has begun debate on the Supplemental. The rule provides for no amendments and four hours of debate equally divided between...
At $20 billion more than the President’s proposal, Congress’s $124 billion emergency spending bill is giving taxpayers an acute case of...
I'm hearing that the Senate supplemental is weighing in at $121B, slightly slimmer than the House's $124B, although the Ag Emergency...
Dear Member of Congress:
Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan, budget watchdog group, urges you to co-sponsor the National Forest...
Today was to be the day of earmark reckoning. At 3 PM, the Office of Management and Budget was supposed to post on the internet a database...
Dear Senator:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action) applauds Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA), Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Susan...
Dear Budget Committee Member:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action), a nonpartisan, budget watchdog group, urges you to oppose...
Dear Budget Committee Member:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action), a nonpartisan, budget watchdog group, urges you to oppose any...
The results are in! Taxpayers for Common Sense analysis of the FY07 Defense spending bill found 2,646 earmarks worth $10.5B. This compares...
Today, the Federal Railroad Administration rejected the Dakota, Mining & Eastern (DM&E) loan application.
Why does TCS care? For two main...
OMB just sent out a memo to Department Heads and Federal Agencies directing them how to deal with the FY07 spending bill (which the...
Four and half months into the fiscal year, 2007 appropriations are finally done. What a mess. The Republicans left a mess by not getting...
Here’s the likely scenario: The Omnibus spending bill appears tomorrow, runs through a revolving door at the Rules committee and makes a...
The President’s Statement of Administration Policy on the FY07 spending bill is out.
I am heartened by the Administration's comment:
“The...
Dear Member of Congress:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action, a nonpartisan, budget watchdog-group, urges you to support efforts to improve...
Summary: 2007 Administration Outline of Farm Bill
Good theater on the House floor today (if you're a geek like me). Before getting to the substance, I thought I would comment on a nearly...
The House Rules Committee is supposed to consider the FY07 Continuing Resolution (CR) today at 3 PM.
CR 101: For the last several years,...
The long-term continuing resolution for FY07 appropriations is supposed to be considered by the House on Wednesday. It should come out on...
Dear Senator:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action urges you to support cloture on Sen. Judd Gregg’s (R-NH) amendment, “A Second Look at...
So, Sen. Gregg's line item veto (enhanced recission) amendment is back up on the floor of the Senate. It wasn't "germane" to the...
Right now, the Senate is bogging down on Sen. Gregg's "Second Look at Wasteful Spending" amendment. That's a pretty good name for what...
Tonight, the Senate unanimously passed an amendment to the ethics bill to bring earmarks out of the shadowy corridors of the capitol and...
Dear Senator:
Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) Action, a non-partisan budget watchdog, strongly urges your support of Senator Jim DeMint’s...
So, I keep looking for potential loopholes in the rule. One question that comes up in my head is the rule's definition of earmark where it...
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi The Honorable Harry Reid
U.S. House of Representatives...
AMERICAN RIVERS · EARTHJUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND · ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE · FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ·
MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN ALLIANCE ·...
The current 768 page, 5 inch thick energy legislation is fueled by pork and will do very little to
reduce energy prices or increase...
Dear Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid:
On behalf of the millions of taxpayers represented by the groups listed below, we urge you to make...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a statement from Steve Ellis, Vice President for Programs at Taxpayers for Common Sense, on the Defense...
Dear Representative:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action), a non-partisan budget watchdog, strongly urges you NOT to...
Dear Member of Congress:
Dear Member of Congress:
Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) Action, a non-profit budget watchdog, applauds the Senate passage of S....
Dear Senator,
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action), a non-partisan budget watchdog organization, urges you to oppose S....
Dear Senator:
Dear Senator:
For many years, our organizations have examined the standard operating practices of the Corps of Engineers and working to...
Dear Representative:
We urge you to support H.R. 4973, the “Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2006.” Our organizations...
Dear Representative,
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action), a non-partisan budget watchdog organization, urges you to oppose H.R....
Washington, D.C. - The following is a prepared statement by Franz Matzner, Senior Policy Analyst at Taxpayers for Common Sense, on the...
The U.S. Senate
Dear Representative:
The Claim-Patent System: Fueling a 135-Year Heist of Public Lands
The claim-patent system serves as the basis for hardrock mineral...
Dear Senator: Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action) applauds Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN)...
Dear Representative:
On behalf of the Green Scissors campaign, a coalition of environmental, taxpayer and consumer groups, we urge you...
Dear Speaker Hastert and Leader Pelosi:
Earlier this month several Members of Congress sent you a letter supporting the inclusion of...
Dear Representative:
On behalf of the undersigned organizations, we urge you to support the following twoamendments to the Agriculture... ![]()
Dear Representative:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action urges you to support amendments from Representative Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and...
TCS applauds you for looking more closely at certain contracting mishaps in the wake of Katrina, both because of the sizable federal...
Dear Representative,
Taxpayers for Common Sense urges you to support language added to the House Interior Appropriations Bill by...
Dear Representative:
On behalf of the undersigned organizations, we strongly urge you to support Representative Steve Chabot’s...
“Now, we don’t think oil companies need tax incentives or subsidies to drill for oil at $70 a barrel, or for that matter at $25.” Wall...
May 1, 2006
“Relief” for Oil and Gas
A Fiscal Headache for Taxpayers
“Now, we don’t think oil companies need tax incentives or subsidies to drill...
Dear Senator:
Contact: Kathleen McNeilly (202) 546-8500 x128 or Eric Jordan 907-747-6743
WASHINGTON, D.C. - More than 500 Alaska fishermen have...
Federal grazing programs managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) cost taxpayers more than $100...
The Honorable Richard Shelby
Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Swain County), North Carolina
Projected Cost to Federal Taxpayers: $604...
Washington, D.C. – The following is a written statement from Jill Lancelot, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense, on the death of...
Letter to chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Budget Committees urging them not to include a farm bill extension in the...
Washington, D.C. – The following is a written statement from Jill Lancelot, President...
Washington, D.C. – The following is a written statement by Jill Lancelot, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense, on the Senate refusal to...
Dear Senator:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action) strongly urges support of the Grassley- Dorgan Farm Program Reform amendment...
Dear Budget Committee Member, Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action), a non-partisan budget watchdog, urges you to strip Subtitle...
Dear Resources Committee Member, Taxpayers for Common Sense Action, a national non-partisan budget watchdog, is concerned with several...
Dear Senator:
The undersigned organizations have long advocated reform of our crop subsidy system. Now, with added federal expenditures...
Oppose the $5 Billion "Energy Bill II"
The ink has hardly dried on the bloated federal energy bill (Energy Policy Act of 2005), and yet...
Dear Representative:
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Steve Ellis, Vice...
Washington, D.C. – The following is a written statement by Steve Ellis,...
The 10 worst provisions of the 2005 Energy Bill. To read the fact sheet, click here.
Washington, DC - A new report by Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) finds that Pennsylvania and the nation are facing hundreds of billions of...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Keith Ashdown, Vice-President of Taxpayers for Common Sense, on George W. Bush...
Washington, D.C. – The following is a written statement by Jill Lancelot, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense on the President signing...
Mr. Richard Stevenson
Bureau of Reclamation
2800 Cottage Way, MP-440
Sacramento CA 95825
Dear Mr. Stevenson,
Taxpayers for Common Sense,...
Ms. Claire Jacquemin
Bureau of Reclamation
2800 Cottage Way, MP-700
Sacramento, CA 95825
August 4, 2005
Dear Ms. Jacquemin,
On behalf of...
Investing in Smart Water Strategies for Pennsylvania and the Nation...
Dear Energy Bill Conferee, Taxpayers for Common Sense Action, a non-partisan budget watchdog group, urges you to omit the Senate-passed...
Dear Energy Bill Conferee,
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action, a non-partisan budget watchdog group, thanks you for keeping the $30...
Washington, D.C. – The following is a written statement by Steve Ellis, Vice-President of Programs at Taxpayers for Common Sense, a...
The United States maintains the most advanced water system in the world, but faces major funding challenges over the next twenty years to...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement from Steve Ellis, Vice President for Programs at Taxpayers for Common Sense on the...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement from Jill Lancelot, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense:
The U.S. Senate...
Marijuana is the most widely used illegal substance in the United States, and study after study shows that despite spending billions of...
Dear Representative:
We urge you to support the Sanders-Rohrabacher-Tim Ryan-Paul-Kucinich amendment to H.R. 3057, the FY 2006 Foreign...
Washington, D.C. - Despite the federal government spending nearly $4 billion to combat marijuana use last year and tens of billions over...
Dear Senator,
We urge you to oppose the amendment by Senators Pete Domenici, Mary Landrieu, and others to divert $1 billion in federal...
By: John Nohlgren
On May, 29th 2002, President George W. Bush and his brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush, together announced the...
Dear Mr. President:
On behalf of the millions of members represented by our respective organizations, we ask that you hold steadfast to...
Dear Senator:
On behalf of our members, the undersigned groups urge you to oppose the Energy Policy Act of 2005. We strongly believe...
Washington, D.C. – The following is a written statement by Keith Ashdown, Vice-President of Policy of Taxpayers for Common Sense on the IG...
Remarks by Erich W. Zimmermann, Policy Analyst
Delivered at River Valley Club, Louisville, Kentucky
June 3, 2005
Good afternoon, my...
Energy Bill
December 2007
For more than a half century the federal government has provided billions in handouts to the nuclear power...
Dear Representative,
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action), a non-partisan budget watchdog group, strongly opposes H.R. 6, the...
The following is a written statement by Erich Zimmermann, Policy Analyst at Taxpayers for Common Sense, on Senate passage of the...
May 13, 2005
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Convinced that we require a broader range of nuclear options to ensure a credible deterrence threat, the National Nuclear Security...
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is currently designing a $2-4 billion Modern Pit Facility (MPF)i that will cost...
Dear Representative:
We urge you to support Representative Tom Udall’s amendment to strike Section 631 from H.R. 6, the Energy Policy...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Jill Lancelot, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense, on final passage of H.R....
Washington, D.C - The following is a prepared statement by Keith Ashdown, Vice-President of Policy at Taxpayers for Common Sense on H.R....
Dear Representative,
We urge you to support the Grijalva amendment to strike Section 2005 from H.R. 6, the Energy Policy Act of 2005,...
Dear Senator:
Dear Representative:
On behalf of our members, the undersigned groups urge you to oppose the Energy Policy Act of 2005. We strongly...
Dear Senator: On behalf of the undersigned organizations, we urge you to oppose Senator Saxby Chambliss’s (R-GA) amendment to the Emergency...
Dear Representative,
We urge you to support the amendments by Representative Capps to strike “safe harbor” and transition assistance for...
Washington, D.C. – The following is a written statement by Keith Ashdown, Vice-President of Policy at Taxpayers for Common Sense on the...
Dear Representative,
We urge you to support the Doggett amendment to the tax portion of the energy bill, which would end the decades-old...
Dear Senator:
Our organizations strongly oppose S. 728, the Water Resources Development Act of 2005 (WRDA 2005). This legislation...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a prepared statement by Franz Matzner, Policy Analyst of Taxpayers for Common Sense on the World Trade...
Washington, D.C. – Washington, D.C. - The following is a prepared statement by Keith Ashdown, Vice-President of Policy at Taxpayers for...
Oral Statement of Steve Ellis, Vice President of Programs, Taxpayers
for Common Sense
before
Senate Democratic Policy Committee Oversight...
Washington, D.C. – The following is a written statement by Keith Ashdown, Vice President of Policy at Taxpayers for Common Sense regarding...
Recipient of the TCS "Golden Fleece Award in 2003 (Read the award write-up)
Project Update (September 2007): After many years of...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Steve Ellis, Vice President of Programs at Taxpayers for Common Sense, on the...
ANALYSIS OF THE PRESIDENT'S FY2006 BUDGET REQUEST
February 2005
#10 - Advanced Technology Program
FY06 Budget...
This report discusses the 109th Congress legislative proposals on issues concerning Ethanol and MTBE Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a prepared statement by Steve Ellis, Vice President for Programs at Taxpayers for Common Sense:
First,...
This report gives brief background information on agriculture-based renewable energy sources as well as describes the economic and energy...
PDF Description: CRS report on the background and analysis of The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), Other Non-Tax Energy, Production...
Washington, D.C. – The following is a prepared statement by Keith Ashdown, Vice President of Policy at Taxpayers for Common Sense:
First,...
This report presents an analysis of energy efficiency goals and standards as presented by the DOE. It also includes information on DOE...
World Oil Demand and the Effect on Oil Prices
July 20, 2004
The Honorable Jeff Flake
United States House of Representatives
424 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Dear...
[Federal Register: July 16, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 136)]
[Notices]
[Page 42648-42649]
From the Federal Register Online via...
Washington, D.C. – The following is a prepared statement by Jill Lancelot, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) on the Bush...
Washington, D.C. – The following is a prepared statement by Steve Ellis, Vice President at Taxpayers for Common Sense on the House Energy &...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement Keith Ashdown, Vice President of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a national budget...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Jill Lancelot, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense on the efforts by...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Jill Lancelot, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense, on the energy bill...
The Honorable Ann M. Veneman
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington, D.C. - The following is a statement by Keith Ashdown, Vice President at Taxpayers for Common Sense on the FSC/ETI Corporate...
Dear Representative: Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action), a nonpartisan, budget watchdog group, opposes H.R. 4503, the Energy...
Road to Ruin documents 27 road projects that will drain federal tax dollars, harm communities, and damage the natural environment. In total, these projects would cost federal taxpayers at least $24 billion....
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Keith Ashdown, Vice President of Taxpayers for Common Sense on final passage of...
On behalf of our members, the undersigned groups urge you to exercise fiscal responsibility as the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) completes...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Jill Lancelot, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a national budget...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Aileen Roder, Program Director at Taxpayers for Common Sense on introduction of...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement from Keith Ashdown, Vice President at Taxpayers for Common Sense:
The tanker lease...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a prepared statement by Keith Ashdown, Vice President of Taxpayers for Common Sense on the passage of...
The nation’s largest water management agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is at a crossroads. The Corps is poised to either...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Keith Ashdown, Vice President of Policy at Taxpayers for Common Sense on the new...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Keith Ashdown, Vice-President of Policy at Taxpayers for Common Sense on the...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Keith Ashdown, Vice-President at Taxpayers for Common Sense on Boeing US Air...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Aileen Roder, Program Director at Taxpayers for Common Sense on S. 2095:
Much...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Steve Ellis, Vice President for Programs at Taxpayers for Common Sense on the...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Jill Lancelot, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense on the Omnibus Spending...
Grazing on public lands cost U.S. taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in direct subsidies over the last century. Considering the...
Washington, DC - Investing in current roads instead of building new ones would help reduce the growing road maintenance crisis in the...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a prepared statement by Steve Ellis, Vice President at Taxpayers for Common Sense, a national budget...
Letter to President George W. Bush against the building of new national forest roads but for the maintenance of existing roads.
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Steve Ellis, Vice President for Programs on Phillip M. Condit's resignation as...
Taxpayers for Common Sense Analysis of H.R. 6 by Energy Type or...
Taxpayers for Common Sense Analysis of Authorized Spending in Energy Bill Report (H.R. 6) Click Here to read this analysis.
Title IV, Subtitle B of S. 14 provides federal loan guarantees to build six new nuclear power plants at an estimated cost of $14 to $16...
The Honorable Bill Owens
Governor
136 State Capitol
Denver, CO 80203-1792
Dear Governor Owens:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Keith Ashdown, Vice-President of Policy at Taxpayers for Common Sense on the...
CATEGORY: ENERGY & MEDIA
TAGS: statement, Jill Lancelot, energy bill, Senate, tax breaks, energy subsidies
TITLE: A Costly Deal on the...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Keith Ashdown, Vice-President of Policy at Taxpayers for Common Sense following...
Dear Chairman Young:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action), a non-partisan, budget watchdog group, is highly concerned by...
Dear Representative:
With the FY04 budget deficit approaching $500 billion, the corporate welfare hidden in H.R. 2800, the Foreign...
Dear Senator: Our nation faces a record deficit of more than $450 billion for FY03. This places an even greater responsibility on...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Steve Ellis, Vice President for Programs at Taxpayers for Common Sense in...
Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy before the Lord. Psalm 96:12-13
Dear Representative Inslee,
Taxpayers for Common Sense, a non-partisan budget watchdog organization, supports your funding limitation...
Washington, D.C. - The Bush administration's proposal to exempt the Tongass National Forest from the Roadless Area Conservation Rule will...
Dear Chairman Hobson and Representative Visclosky:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action), a non-partisan, budget watchdog group,...
Dear Senator:
Our budget deficit has grown to more than $400 billion, making it more important than ever to exercise fiscal restraint in...
June 30, 2003
Dear Chairman Young:
As you mark up a potential Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2003, we urge you to include significant reforms...
Washington, D.C. - Rep Don Young (R-AK) was awarded the Golden Fleece Award today by Taxpayers for Common Sense, a budget watchdog...
***This article first published June 12, 2003 when TCS was the first to shed light on the "Bridge to Nowhere"***
Rep. Don Young...
Washington, D.C. - Rep Don Young (R-AK) was awarded the Golden Fleece Award today by Taxpayers for Common Sense, a budget watchdog...
Dear Resources Committee Member: We oppose H.R. 901, introduced by Congressmen John Doolittle (R-CA) and Doug Ose (R-CA). This bill...
Dear Congressman:
We are writing to express our concern over the recent Department of Defense approval to lease 100 Boeing 767 "tanker...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Jill Lancelot, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense on the Senate decision to...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Shannon Collier, Policy Analyst at Taxpayers for Common Sense on the...
Washington, D.C. - The Forest Service has consistently failed to provide American taxpayers and Congress with a clear accounting of what...
Dear Representative:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action), a non-partisan, budget watchdog group, opposes H.R. 1904, the...
Fixed Direct Payments, or ‘decoupled payments’, provide farmers with direct income unrelated to the market. Many argue that direct income...
PDF Description: As the Senate brings their energy policy legislation to the floor this week, it is clear that their bill is as filled with...
Washington, D.C. - The General Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, has alerted the Bonneville Power Administration...
Dear Representative Rahall,
On behalf of the millions of members from across the country that the undersigned organizations represent, we...
Washington, D.C. -- The House of Representatives today passed a new energy bill loaded with billions of special interest provisions and...
Dear Representative,
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action), a non-partisan, budget watchdog group, strongly opposes the "Energy...
Washington, D.C. - Defying President Bush’s request to keep the Wartime Emergency Supplemental bill clean from extraneous and wasteful...
Dear Energy and Commerce Committee Member,
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action), a non-partisan, budget watchdog group, strongly...
Dear Finance Committee Member:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action), a non-partisan budget watchdog group, has major concerns...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement from Aileen Roder, Program Director of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a national...
War has always been expensive and the war in Iraq is no different. The United States has already spent $1 billion dollars on cruise...
Dear Representative: When the House of Representatives considers the budget resolution this week, Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS...
Taxpayers for Common Sense opposes any alterations that would limit public access to federal grazing lands or reduce the opportunity for...
PDF Description: The current 768 page, 5 inch thick energy legislation is fueled by pork and will do very little to reduce energy prices or...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Autumn Hanna, Senior Policy Analyst at Taxpayers for Common Sense, a national...
Washington, D.C. - Despite opposition from leading taxpayer and environmental groups, Congress, last night, approved a $700 million...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Autumn Hanna, Senior Policy Analyst at Taxpayers for Common Sense, a national...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Steve Ellis, Vice President of Programs at Taxpayers for Common Sense, a budget...
Washington, DC - Barge traffic on the Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway continues to decline, according to new Army Corps of...
Washington, DC - The following is a written statement by Aileen Roder, Program Director at Taxpayers for Common Sense, a national budget...
Washington, D.C. - Firefighting crews have “totally ignored” federal rules by spending taxpayer money with the “the perception that...
Washington, D.C. - The following is a statement by Steve Ellis, Vice President for Programs at Taxpayers for Common Sense, a national...
1. During the 2002 wildfire season:
2.4 million acres of Forest Service and burned, in addition to 4.8 million acres of other...
Portland, OR - On the eve of a hearing on proposed changes to hydropower operations in the Columbia River basin, conservationists are...
Washington, D.C. - Federal agencies have spent more than $3.3 billion on salmon recovery efforts in the Columbia River basin, according to...
Washington, D.C. - In a memo obtained from the Forest Service by Taxpayers for Common Sense, Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth disclosed...
Washington, D.C. - Prepared Statement by Aileen Roder, Water Policy Analyst at Taxpayers for Common Sense, on the House Resources Committee...
Washington, D.C. - The House of Representatives is expected to approve today the $20.4 billion Department of Interior spending bill, which...
Washington, D.C. - Despite Forest Service efforts to blame everyone but themselves for the western wildfire crisis, the leading fire...
Following the airline industry's lead, insurance executives have been lobbying Congress for terrorism insurance legislation that will...
Washington, D.C. - Despite many lawmaker's rhetorical claims of fiscal responsibility and budget discipline, very few follow through by...
Washington, D.C. - Written Statement By Steve Ellis, Senior Director of Water Resources, Taxpayers for Common Sense, on the...
Washington, D.C. - The following statement was released today by Steve Ellis, Senior Director of Water Resources at Taxpayers for Common...
Taxpayers for Common Sense, an independent budget watchdog organization, strongly supports the bipartisan Roadless Area Conservation Act of...
Washington, D.C. (May 17, 2002) - An early copy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' much anticipated "project review list" was obtained by...
Bill would prevent bad actors, like those behind Rock Creek Mine proposal underneath Cabinet Mountains Wilderness, from sticking taxpayers...
Washington, D.C. - Legislation to renew the President's authority to negotiate new trade agreements could set the stage for unprecedented...
Washington, D.C. - The Magnuson-Stevens Act being taken up in subcommittee today is an excellent first step towards protecting fishermen...
Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced today that it will be delaying 150 water projects pending further economic...
Washington, D.C. - The Senate decision today to approve the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) that will increase the use of ethanol to 5...
Washington, D.C. - Statement by Cena Swisher, Senior Director at Taxpayers for Common Sense, on the House Supporting Payment Caps in Farm...
Dear Representative:
In a few days, the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to consider legislation to make permanent the tax...
Washington, D.C. - With the return of budget deficits and the annual political war over the budget bills set to start, today a coalition...
Washington, D.C. - Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) is attempting the get the Bureau of Reclamation, a water supply agency, to build an $85...
Washington, D.C. - Written Statement by Joe Theissen, Executive Director of Taxpayers for Common Sense for the April 2nd release of the...
Washington, D.C. - The Pork Council, known primarily for their "Pork, the other white meat" campaign, has announced a multi-million dollar...
Washington, D.C. - Taxpayers for Common Sense, an independent budget watchdog, today criticized the U.S. Postal Service for raising postage...
Washington, D.C. - Taxpayers for Common Sense, an independent budget watchdog, applauds the action of the U.S. Senate in passing and...
Washington, D.C. - Congress should pass President Bush's request to increase the nation's debt ceiling without delay, said Taxpayers for...
Washington, D.C. - The US Army Corps of Engineers' decision not to remove the four dams on the Lower Snake River in eastern Washington...
Washington, D.C. - The following statement is from Joe Theissen, Executive Director of Taxpayers for Common Sense in response to final...
Washington, D.C. - The United States Forest Service (USFS) and Department of Interior (DOI) have failed to identify communities that face a...
Washington, D.C. - The Bush Administration's proposed $2.13 trillion federal budget with its massive new spending will lead us into a new...
The following are five important budget principles that should guide Congress in formulating the Fiscal Year 2003 federal budget....
Direct Costs of the Federal Grazing Program
In fiscal year 2002, the BLM spent $80.6 million on rangeland management and range...
WASHINGTON, DC-Government subsidies to oil, coal and nuclear power industries could double if the Senate passes the House energy bill (H.R....
Washington, D.C. - The following is a statement from Cena Swisher, Senior Director of Taxpayers for Common Sense on the proposed...
December 10, 2001
Chief Dale Bosworth
Forest Service
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Sidney R. Yates Federal Building
201 14th Street,...
Washington, DC - A $10 billion bill to fund California water projects will launch a new era of wasteful water projects at the expense of...
Using a controversial interpretation of a federal repayment credit provided to Bonneville Power to restore endangered salmon, the...
Washington, DC -- A prominent budget watchdog group today called for an investigation to determine whether taxpayer funds were used to pay...
Washington, D.C. - Statement by Keith Ashdown, Communications Director at Taxpayers for Common Sense on the Dwindling Federal Budget...
Investigation Reveals Weaknesses in Federal Firefighting
Funding for Wildfire Management Could be Wasted, Misused, Says...
Washington, D.C. - An energy bill about to be debated in Congress would do nothing to solve America's energy woes and would dish out more...
Last month Representative Calvert (R-CA), Chairman of the Water and Power Subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives, introduced...
Last night Congress struck down the $2.5 Auburn Dam project for the fifth time in a decade through a major bi-partisan effort.
The Auburn...
Taxpayers for Common Sense would like to applaud Congressman Tancredo for his leadership and defense of taxpayers in introducing this bill...
Letter from EPA Administrator Whitman to California Governor denying their request for a waiver from the oxygen content requirement of the...
Washington, DC (May 23) - The out-of-control spending that marked the second session of the 106th Congress threatens to squander projected...
Analysis of Bush Administration’s energy task force report released on May 17, 2001, by Cena Swisher, Program Director. Taxpayers for...
(Washington) - A coalition of Chambers of Commerce, conservationists, sportsmen, and farmers today unveiled a $144 million plan to meet the...
May 2001
Reference Number: 2001-40-077
This report has cleared the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration disclosure review...
Letter to President George W. Bush from natural recourses scientists supporting Roadless protection of undeveloped national forests.
Washington, D.C. - President George W. Bush tomorrow is expected to announce a sizable reduction of the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal. A...
Letter to President George W. Bush from religious leaders endorsing Roadless protection of natural resources.
Secretary Rumsfeld:
Several months into your bottom-up review of the current status of national security, you have likely reached the...
Washington, D.C. - Legislation introduced today in Congress would revamp the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Interior Department's proposal to suspend efforts to make mining corporations pay to clean up their mine sites could...
The Honorable Bruce Babbitt
Secretary of Interior
1849 C Street, NW
Suite 6151
Washington, DC 20240
Dear Mr. Babbitt:
This letter...
Reducing the Harmful Effects and Rising Costs of Western Wildfires...
TAMPA, FL – Citing bargain-basement leases to rich developers at the Tampa International Airport, a national taxpayers organization today...
Summary: The 10 federal agencies managed more than 22.6 million AUMs on about 235 million acres of federal lands for grazing and land...
Letter of endorsement directed to President Clinton by natural recourses scientists desiring to protect undeveloped portions of national...
How the Mining Industry Used Outdated Rules to Pass Environmental Cleanup Costs to Taxpayers...
Washington, DC - A legislative rider that would perpetuate salmon extinction and cost taxpayers billions was included in the Interior...
Taxpayers for Common Sense and the National Wildlife Federation together sent a letter to House Committee on Natural Resources Water and...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Conservation and taxpayer advocacy groups have called upon President Clinton and Congress to make significant changes...
WASHINGTON, DC- More than 1000 professional educators from across the country today called on the President to end the link between funding...
Washington, DC - The Administration's decision to delay removing four dams on the Lower Snake River is unacceptable because it could drive...
(Washington, DC)-Environmental and taxpayer groups today praised Representatives Ron Kind (D- WI), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Earl Blumenauer...
Washington, DC - The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on an appropriations bill today that is riddled with unnecessary...
Representative Steve Chabot (R-OH) today offered two separate amendments to the House Agriculture spending bill that would eliminate...
Taxpayers for Common Sense testified to the Congress regarding the Animas-La Plata (ALP) project in 2000. Since its founding in 1995, TCS...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is wasting billions of dollars on environmentally harmful projects, charges a new report by Taxpayers...
At the beginning of the 21st Century, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the nation's chief water resources agency, finds itself adrift in...
Washington, DC — The U.S. Senate defeated an amendment offered by Sen. Richard Bryan (D-NV), Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL), and Sen. Ron...
The Pentagon has announced an extension of the THAAD intercept deadlines in its agreement with Lockheed-Martin from July 16, 1999 until...
How Federal Taxpayers Subsidies Waste Resources and Discourage Recycling...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 12, 1999) - Over 300 national and grassroots organizations from across America today endorsed the retirement of...
WASHINGTON, D.C.— One hundred and seven members of Congress today called upon President Clinton for "prompt" consideration of all options...
Washington DC- A national taxpayer organization today called for key reforms to the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), a bill expected...
The Brush Disposal Fund is one of the smaller U.S. Forest Service "trust funds" that depend on the federal timber program. Forest Service...
The Roads and Trails Fund is one of the smaller U.S. Forest Service "trust funds" that depend on the federal timber program. Forest Service...
The Salvage Sale Fund is one of several U.S. Forest Service "trust funds" that is dependent on the federal timber program. Forest Service...
The Replanting Fund is one of several U.S. Forest Service "trust funds" that is dependent on the federal timber program. Forest Service...
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Why Does Congress Subsidize Timber Corporations to Cut Down the Public’s National Forests?
Hundreds of millions of tax dollars are spent...
Subsidies for oil and natural gas began in 1916 with the federal government creating its first tax breaks for oil and gas production....
There is a long tradition of providing massive subsidies for nuclear power in the U.S. Between 1948 and 1998; more than $66 billion was...
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and liability act of 1980, also known as the Superfund, gives the federal...
Rep. Charles Taylor (R-NC) owns several pieces of property in Jackson County, NC, including at least two that are very close to Highway 19,...
The Brush Disposal Fund is one of the smaller U.S. Forest Service "trust funds" that depend on the federal timber program. Forest Service...
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