Oppose Ag-Only Farm Bill: Spends More Than Senate Bill; Changes Make Subsidies Permanent
July 11, 2013
General
Total Cuts: $421+ million
Cuts Include:
Shift Congressional Pensions to Defined Contribution
Overseas Private Investment...
Transportation
Total Cuts: $18.7 billion
The nation’s transportation system is broken, as the gasoline tax that each of us pays at the...
Infrastructure
Total Cuts: $6 billion
For nearly two centuries, the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) has been a way for lawmakers to...
Outdated and ineffective farm policies waste billions of federal funds each year, jeopardize fragile lands and waters and no longer...
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...
Taxpayers have been subsidizing the same mature, polluting energy technologies for decades. Many projects and outdated programs still...
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...
A review and analysis of the laws and regulations governing the collection and use of revenues from commercial energy development on federal lands and is a guide for policy-makers to use in developing appropriate policies for wind and solar energy projects....
Also in attendance is Iowa State University economist Bruce Babcock.
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The draft recommendations released this week by the co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform propose...
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Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters...
July 11, 2013