Oppose Ag-Only Farm Bill: Spends More Than Senate Bill; Changes Make Subsidies Permanent
July 11, 2013
General
Total Cuts: $421+ million
Cuts Include:
Shift Congressional Pensions to Defined Contribution
Overseas Private Investment...
Transportation
Total Cuts: $18.7 billion
The nation’s transportation system is broken, as the gasoline tax that each of us pays at the...
Infrastructure
Total Cuts: $6 billion
For nearly two centuries, the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) has been a way for lawmakers to...
Outdated and ineffective farm policies waste billions of federal funds each year, jeopardize fragile lands and waters and no longer...
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...
Taxpayers have been subsidizing the same mature, polluting energy technologies for decades. Many projects and outdated programs still...
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...
The Armed Services Committees are not the only Congressional bodies to see their memberships upended by the midterm elections.
The...
As the dawn of the 112th Congress draws near, there are several reforms Congress should enact, regardless of which party is in control....
Newspapers Across the Country Agree: End Ethanol Subsidies!
In light of TCS’ release of the Green Scissors 2010 Report on July 22 and...
Our weekly reality-check for federal spending. View All
Volume XVIII No. 37
Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters...
July 11, 2013