Letters & Testimony
Oppose Ag-Only Farm Bill: Spends More Than Senate Bill; Changes Make Subsidies Permanent
July 11, 2013
Department of Energy: Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) Program
August 29, 2013 |
Section 136 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) authorized the Department of Energy Advanced Technology Vehicles... 
Supporting Passenger Mobility and Choice by Breaking Modal Stovepipes: Comparing Amtrak and Motorcoach Service
July 30, 2013 |
This analysis compares customer costs (fare, travel time) and societal costs (government subsidies, air emissions) associated with twenty specific trips that can currently be taken between select U.S. city pairs on both an Amtrak train and on a scheduled intercity motorcoach bus....
Golden Fleece: KABATA - Taxpayer Funded Cheerleaders for Alaska’s Knik Arm Bridge
June 26, 2013 |
Summary
Over the last decade, the Knik Arm Bridge and Toll Authority (KABATA) spent millions of federal taxpayer dollars on a project...
Wanna Giveaway?: Congress Using Budget Gimmicks to Reverse Air Traffic Cuts
April 26, 2013 |
Update (12:30pm) - The House passed this bill today 361-41, and it now goes to the President for his signature. Though the bill does...
Bringing Sequester in for a Landing: Congress on Verge of Avoiding FAA Furloughs with Budget Gimmicks
April 25, 2013 |
Update (9:03 pm): The Senate has gone with option 1 (see below), allowing for the transfer of $250 million from the Airport Improvement...
Essential Air Service Dataset
April 04, 2013 |
The Essential Air Service (EAS) is a federal subsidy program created in the 1970s as part of airline deregulation. Though the program was...
Analysis of Selected Sections of S. 601, Water Resources Development Act of 2013
March 20, 2013 |
The Senate's Environment and Public Works committee is taking up a water project bill that could cost taxpayers billions....
Sandy Supplemental Data
February 12, 2013 |
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As Washington debates the merits of a supplemental spending bill in response to superstorm Sandy, this database lists of all the spending...
Transportation Tax Provisions within Fiscal Cliff Deal
January 03, 2013 |
The final agreement signed by the president to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff” contains several items related to transportation that...
Analysis of Selected Provisions in Hurricane Sandy Emergency Spending Proposals
December 17, 2012 > Updated: January 10, 2013 |
Update January 10, 2013:
We’ve combed through the House Appropriations Chairman Rogers Sandy Supplemental bill (HR 152 and his...
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