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Analysis of Selected Provisions in Hurricane Sandy Emergency Spending Proposals

December 17, 2012 > Updated: January 10, 2013 | Earmarks & Appropriations , Transportation & Infrastructure

Analysis of Selected Provisions in Hurricane Sandy Emergency Spending Proposals Update January 10, 2013: We’ve combed through the House Appropriations Chairman Rogers Sandy Supplemental bill (HR 152 and his... Read More

Evolution of Earmarks

November 07, 2012 | Earmarks & Appropriations

Evolution of Earmarks and Earmark Disclosure in Recent Years... Read More

Zombie Earmarks in Defense Spending Bill

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... Read More

Sandy Supplemental Data

Sandy Supplemental Data As Washington debates the merits of a supplemental spending bill in response to superstorm Sandy, this database lists of all the spending... Read More

Backdoor Earmarks? Slush-y Funds in the Corps of Engineers Budget

Backdoor Earmarks? Slush-y Funds in the Corps of Engineers Budget (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... Read More

FY2011 Omnibus Appropriations Earmark Database

December 29, 2010 | Earmarks & Appropriations

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

TCS Releases Database of FY11 Earmark Requests

December 02, 2010 | Earmarks & Appropriations

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

TCS Preliminary Earmark Analysis for FY 2011

November 05, 2010 | Earmarks & Appropriations

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

Common Sense Reforms for the 112th Congress

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

Good Government Groups and Lobbyists Jointly Release Common Sense Earmark Reforms for the 112th Congress

September 27, 2010 | Budget & Tax , Earmarks & Appropriations

TCS joined with other nonprofit good government groups and several Washington lobbyists to hammer out some jointly agreed upon earmark... Read More

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Weekly Wastebasket

Our weekly reality-check for federal spending. View All

February 15, 2013

Engineering Boondoggles

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