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Disclosure Double-Talk

  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...

Finding War Funding

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

Congress and the Contractors

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

Funding a Sinking Ship?

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

The Snowballing Supplemental

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

Justifying the Supplemental

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Engineering Boondoggles

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