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
In the summer of 2011, Congress sent the President a bill that acknowledged failure. Instead of swallowing hard and coming up with...
A quick note: This analysis is based upon best available data at the time it was written. As of this posting (6:20pm), the final...
Left-Right coalition identifies practical steps Congress could take to slash deficits, save natural resources....
Congress continues to meet behind closed doors in a Conference Committee to hash out the details of a transportation bill...
Watchdog Groups Identify Nearly $700 Billion in Wasteful Spending on National Security...
In response to growing public opposition, questionable project merit, and an increasingly bloated cost, the California High Speed Rail...
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Mica (R-FL) introduced H.R. 4239 yesterday; a “clean” extension to the...
As Washington debates the merits of a supplemental spending bill in response to superstorm Sandy, this database lists of all the spending...
The Defense Department today gave the public a peek behind the cover of its Fiscal Year 2013 budget request, releasing a report and fact...
The nation’s transportation system — highways, transit lines, aviation, waterways, and ports — is largely supported by a series of...
The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) today awarded $511 million worth of grants to support 46 projects in 33 states and...
House and Senate negotiators have released a final version of the so-called "mini-bus" appropriations bill that will roll three funding...
The Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) was adopted by Congress in 1998 to leverage federal resources and...
A large portion of the nation’s 600,000 bridges are in poor condition and require investment to repair or replace. Congress, by virtue of...
Taxpayers for Common Sense has been working hard to meet the challenge of that the so-called Super Committee is facing - $.12-1.5...
The daunting challenges Congress faces in the next month regarding the nation's transportation programs when it returns next week:
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Watchdog Groups Identify Nearly $600 Billion in National Security Spending Cuts
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The federal government could save...
On the heels of the House's recent proposal, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today released a summary of its own...
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, chaired by Rep. John Mica (R-FL) today released an outline of its proposal for a...
June 1, 2011
Taxpayers for Common Sense and Smart Growth America released a report highlighting smarter investments in road repair and...
Transportation dollars are tight. The gasoline tax that we rely on to build and maintain our transportation networks isn’t enough to meet...
A draft has started floating around of the Obama Administration's reauthorization proposal for the nation's transportation program....
Billions of taxpayer dollars handed out by the Department of Transportation was distributed on the basis of a flawed selection process,...
Two documents released recently do a great job framing the upcoming debate over reauthorization of the nation’s surface transportation...
The FY2012 Presidential Budget Request was released this morning. TCS staff will be posting relevant documents and analysis as we digest...
The time has come for Congress to begin a serious discussion about how it is going to correct the current budgetary path into deeper and...
Energy
Total Cuts: $42 billion
Taxpayers have been subsidizing the same mature, polluting energy technologies for decades. Many...
The time has come for Congress to begin a serious discussion about how it is going to correct the current budgetary path into deeper and...
As the 112th Congress begins to tackle runaway deficits, government spending cuts, and congressional earmark bans, they will undoubtedly...
The time has come for Congress to begin a serious discussion about how it is going to correct the current budgetary path into deeper and...
The draft recommendations released this week by the co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform propose...
Taxpayers for Common Sense joined a number of environmental and consumer groups and a bipartisan slate of Representatives today in...
Earlier this week, the Senate passed its version of the jobs bill—a bill which is flawed from a transportation and taxpayer...
Updated 2:33pm
The Senate-passed jobs bill (Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act or the Jobs for Main Street Act) contains a...
The House of Representatives drove home a $447 billion omnibus spending bill yesterday loaded with six of the seven appropriations bills...
Space is crucial to our national security, and we’ve got the skyrocketing budgets to prove it. The United States spends billions on...
Goodness, the difference an economic crisis can make. A few years ago, advertisements by defense contractors arguing that the U.S. should...
The President’s budget released last week includes $ 26.3 billion for the Department of Energy, a $2.1 billion increase over 2008 and...
Over the last two decades, federal agencies have spent more than $8 billion on efforts to restore salmon to the Columbia and Snake River...
The transportation portion of the House stimulus package contains more than $43 billion for the Department of Transportation, including...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructs large water projects (dams, levees, pumping sand on beaches)...
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Road to Ruin documents 27 road projects that will drain federal tax dollars, harm communities, and damage the natural environment. In total, these projects would cost federal taxpayers at least $24 billion....
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is wasting billions of dollars on environmentally harmful projects, charges a new report by Taxpayers...
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While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...
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