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Disclosure Double-Talk

December 17, 2007 | National Security

  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... Read More

Finding War Funding

December 07, 2007 | National Security

The specter of war supplementals hovered over the Capitol this week, given weight by threats from Defense Secretary Robert Gates that... Read More

Congress and the Contractors

November 20, 2007 | National Security

While databasing the earmarks that made it into the 2008 defense appropriations bill signed by President Bush last weekwe discovered that,... Read More

Funding a Sinking Ship?

November 01, 2007 | National Security

While members of Congress hashed out the conference agreement on the Fiscal Year 2008 defense appropriations bill, the Navy was apparently... Read More

The Snowballing Supplemental

October 25, 2007 | National Security

Washington, D.C. (October 26, 2007) - Since President Bush released his latest addition to the burgeoning FY2008 war supplemental on... Read More

Justifying the Supplemental

October 23, 2007 | National Security

The documents released this week by the White House and Department of Defense explaining how they will spend the new $42.3 billion addition... Read More

Oppose Waste in Space Stop Funding for the Space Test Bed in FY 2008

October 02, 2007 | National Security

Dear Senator, Taxpayers for Common Sense urges you to reject an amendment to the FY09 Defense Appropriations bill proposed by Sens. Kyl,... Read More

Support Webb-McCaskill Wartime Contract Commission Amendment to FY08 Defense Authorization

September 20, 2007 | National Security

Dear Senator: Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) urges you to support Sens. James Webb (D-VA) and Claire McCaskill’s (D-MO) Wartime Contract... Read More

Oppose Amendments to Defense Authorization Bill Allowing Long-Term Coal-to-Liquid Contracts

September 18, 2007 | National Security

 Dear Senator: Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) Action urges you to oppose amendments to the Defense Authorization Bill (H.R.1585) that... Read More

Oppose Proposals to Include Coal-to Liquids Subsidies in the House Energy Bill

August 02, 2007 | National Security

Dear Representative: Taxpayers for Common Sense Action urges you to oppose any measures adding mandates, loan guarantees or other... Read More

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Weekly Wastebasket

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February 15, 2013

Engineering Boondoggles

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