Reports & Data

Fair Market Value for Wind and Solar Development on Public Land

A review and analysis of the laws and regulations governing the collection and use of revenues from commercial energy development on federal lands and is a guide for policy-makers to use in developing appropriate policies for wind and solar energy projects....

FY2011 Omnibus Appropriations Earmark Database

(Originally Posted 12/17/2010) Taxpayers for Common Sense has completed an initial database of the 6,706 earmarks worth $8.3 billion...

TCS Releases Database of FY11 Earmark Requests

(Originally Posted December 7) Taxpayers for Common Sense, WashingtonWatch.com, and Taxpayers Against Earmarks teamed together to...

TCS Preliminary Earmark Analysis for FY 2011

Originally Posted 10/19/2010: The FY2011 budget is a mess. Congress has not finished a single spending bill. The House has approved...

Common Sense Reforms for the 112th Congress

As the dawn of the 112th Congress draws near, there are several reforms Congress should enact, regardless of which party is in control....

Ethanol Editorials: Newspapers Across the County Agree - End Ethanol Subsidies!

 Newspapers Across the Country Agree: End Ethanol Subsidies! In light of TCS’ release of the Green Scissors 2010 Report on July 22 and...

Good Government Groups and Lobbyists Jointly Release Common Sense Earmark Reforms for the 112th Congress

TCS joined with other nonprofit good government groups and several Washington lobbyists to hammer out some jointly agreed upon earmark...

UPDATE—$7.7 Billion In Earmarks In 2009 Omnibus Spending Bill (updated 3/13/09)

March 13, 2009 Update: Version 5 is now available.   This version includes member state and party, and also allows for a partisan...

Green Scissors 2010

Taxpayers for Common Sense joined a number of environmental and consumer groups and a bipartisan slate of Representatives today in...

Exploring the Relationship Between Earmarks and Campaign Contributions

Taxpayers for Common Sense and the Center for Responsive Politics have joined to release a comprehensive database that links campaign...

Engineering Boondoggles

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