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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...
The following is a summary of the non-consumer energy tax breaks included in H.R. 1424, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008....
Just months after a new multi-billion dollar five year farm bill was passed into law, a federal watchdog reports that individuals who are...
The Treasury Department has released its first bailout “transaction report,” which documents where $125 billion of the $700 billion in...
The Senate passed the bailout bill 74-25 this evening. Here is the rollcall for the vote.
This is what we had to say about the Senate...
The latest version of the bailout bill was just released. Read it here.
Additional resources (we're adding more as we find them, so...
Today the House passed a Continuing Resolution and a minibus that included the final FY09 Defense spending bill, which had 6 earmarks for...
Update--September 23
Our transparency in government allies at Open CRS obtained a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report The Cost...
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) has drafted a replacement legislative package to the Administration's proposed bailout plan. With a quick glance...
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While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...
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