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1,300 Earmarks in Labor/HHS

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...

Senate Makes House E&W Earmarks Shopping Frenzy Look Tame

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...

Earmarks Aplenty in Senate Energy & Water Appropriations Bill

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...

ﾑBama Wins Senate CJS Approps Sweepstakes

TCS has completed our analysis and database of the Senate CJS appropriations bill. Even in the minority, Sen. Shelby (R-AL) knows how to...

House FY08 Financial Services Analysis and Database and Additional Senate FY08 Defense Analysis and Database

The TCS analysis and database of the House FY08 Financial Services bill (TCS ANALYSIS OF FY08 HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES APPROPRIATIONS BILL)...

Support Amendments to Rein in Financial Services Appropriationsﾒ Earmarks

Dear Representative: Taxpayers for Common Sense Action urges you to support amendments from Representative Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and others to...

Senate Homeland Security and More on House Appropriations

I wanted to alert you that TCS has released our analysis and database of the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations (TCS ANALYSIS OF FY08...

House Interior Appropriations Initiation Analysis and Database

For your weekend reading pleasure, please find the link below to TCS's initial analysis of the House FY08 Interior Appropriations bill....

House Leg Branch & State/Foreign Ops

Hmmm. What do the FY08 Legislative Branch (TCS Analysis of House Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill) and FY08 State and Foreign...

TCS Releases Analysis of Senate MilCon Earmarks

As promised TCS is churning through the appropriations bills. We've just completed our analysis of the Senate MilCon/VA appropriations...

Engineering Boondoggles

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