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
(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...
In keeping with President Obama’s call to end fossil fuel subsidies, the latest budget proposal includes several significant cuts to oil,...
Preliminary disclosed earmark totals for the FY10 Omnibus:
Transportation/HUD:
1481
worth $1.207...
(October 30) President Obama signed a $680 billion defense authorization bill this week—the largest such bill ever—with a declaration...
After searching all 99 senate websites (remember the Coleman/Franken Minnesota race is still unresolved), we now have a complete database...
The FBI has subpoenaed various records and documents from Rep. Visclosky’s (D-IN) offices in relation to the previously raided PMA Group...
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...
President George W. Bush signed a massive year-end spending bill late Tuesday, just hours before a new fiscal year began. The "Minibus"...
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...
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While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...
December 17, 2012
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