Policy Briefs

House Amps Up Energy Loan Guarantees

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 established the Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program to grant loan guarantees for innovative...

House Labor-HHS Spending Bill: 1,371 Earmarks, $619 Million

The FY 2009 House Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill contains 1371 earmarks for a total cost of $619,187,000. The number of projects...

$57 million in earmarks in the House 2009 Financial Services spending bill

The 2009 House Financial Services Appropriations bill contains 197 earmarks for a total of $57 million (click here to see the database)....

$197 Million in Homeland Security Earmarks in Senate Spending Bill

The Senate version of the 2009 Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill includes 19 congressional earmarks for a total of...

Emergency Supplemental Bill - Take 1

The supplemental appropriations bill funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan got fast-tracked through the House yesterday in preparation...

Fencing in DHS Spending

Big week on Capitol Hill for the Department of Homeland Security. On Monday, Secretary Michael Chertoff touted his agency's achievements...

House Defense Authorization Earmarks Jump From Last Year

A bill recently passed by the House increases the number of Defense Authorization earmarks by more than 20% from last year, according to...

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....

$9.9 Billion in House Authorization Add-Ons

The 2009 defense authorization bill headed for the House floor this week has already raised a ruckus over earmarks, and there’s a lot to...

$5.2 Billion in Senate Authorization Additions

While the House Armed Services Committee marks up the 2009 National Defense Authorization Act, TCS staff is scouring the report just...

Engineering Boondoggles

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