Oppose Ag-Only Farm Bill: Spends More Than Senate Bill; Changes Make Subsidies Permanent
July 11, 2013
(October 21) Congress handed off a $42.8 billion appropriations bill funding the Department of Homeland Security through fiscal year 2010...
The president’s fiscal year 2010 budget repeals several long-standing oil and gas subsidies, saving an estimated $31.7 billion over the...
(June 26) We found 13 undisclosed earmarks worth $1.35 billion in the supplemental, including $904 million for seven C-130J aircraft,...
On September 15, 2008 Bank of America acquired the investment bank Merrill Lynch.
Bank of America
Bank of America is the nation’s...
Goodness, the difference an economic crisis can make. A few years ago, advertisements by defense contractors arguing that the U.S. should...
A look at the nuclear weapons budget in the omnibus reveals that while Congress is keeping nuke funding on a short leash, a controversial...
The axe has fallen on the final version of the stimulus bill, and some national security spending ended up on the cutting room floor....
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructs large water projects (dams, levees, pumping sand on beaches) across the country. In the...
The House and Senate agree on many of the national security-related agencies that should receive stimulus funding. The Defense...
The Treasury Department just released terms for the bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler. Taxpayers for Common Sense staff will be...
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Volume XVIII No. 37
Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters...
July 11, 2013