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TCS Statement on Don Young Ad Controversy

Washington, D.C. – The following is a written Statement by Ms. Ryan Alexander, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense: It has come to our...

Oppose Attempts to Raid Treasury to Backfill Highway Trust Fund

July 23, 2008 Dear Representative: Taxpayers for Common Sense Action urges you to oppose H.R. 6532, which would transfer $8 billion from...

Final Days of Don Young’s Way?

With board members jumping ship, the governor asking tough questions, and the cost estimate ballooning, the logical conclusion is that...

Transportation Committee Discloses New Earmarks

The earmark disclosure debutantes are making their way to the floor today in the technical correction bill for SAFETEA-LU (H.R....

Senate Cuts Transportation Earmarks

The FY09 Senate appropriations bill providing money for transportation and Housing and Urban Development projects contains 609 earmarks...

Golden Fleece Award

From surfing subsidies to the Great Wall of Bedford, Indiana, Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire’s Golden Fleece Award protected...

A Look at the New New Orleans

posted by Steve Ellis, 202-546-8500 ext. 126     TCS Vice-President, Steve Ellis, just got back from touring the Lower Ninth ward in New...

Failure to Hold Water

In 1997, The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers published the results of its economic evaluation of a proposed lock to replace the existing lock...

President Vetoes $23 Billion Water Projects Bill

Washington, D.C. - The following is a written statement by Steve Ellis, Vice President of Taxpayers for Common Sense on the President...

Veto ﾖ Channeling Ike on WRDA

It’s a Friday afternoon, but I thought you might be interested in another veto statement from a few years back. The WRDA bill was called...

Engineering Boondoggles

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