Policy Briefs
Analysis of Selected Provisions in Hurricane Sandy Emergency Spending Proposals
December 17, 2012
Reports & Data
Subsidizing Oil Shale: Tracing Federal Support for Oil Shale Development in the United States
November 29, 2012
Industrious Defenders
July 12, 2012 |
If House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) has his way, House members will be distracted by the sideshow in his... 
Watching the Dollars Go By
July 05, 2012 |
Going to the beach this summer – whether it was for the 4th of July or an August vacation – you might want to keep an eye out for some of...
Seeking Senator Scissorhands
June 28, 2012 |
When you’re in a hole, you stop digging. And when you’ve got a $1.3 trillion deficit and $15.7 trillion debt, you gotta get cuttin’....
Thinking Outside the MOX
June 21, 2012 |
Remember your parents telling you that if something looks too good to be true, it probably is? Well, that principle applies equally to...
Thou Shale Not Waste
June 14, 2012 |
Last week the House of Representatives voted on the fiscal year 2013 Energy and Water spending bill. The $32.1 billion bill funds several...
Much Ado About Earmarks
June 07, 2012 |
If you hear some lawmakers tell it, earmarks made Washington a well-oiled machine. As special interest spending provisions that were...
Meeting the Earmark Challenge
May 31, 2012 |
Challenges often bring out the best or worst in people. Public policy challenges do the same thing to lawmakers. The current moratorium...
Profiting from Entitlements
May 23, 2012 |
As farmers finish the last of their spring plantings, lawmakers on the Agriculture Committees are scrambling to sow the seeds for costly...
Time to U-Turn USEC
May 17, 2012 |
The United States Enrichment Company (USEC) received bad news this week in the form of a delisting notice from the New York Stock...
A Farewell to Alms
May 10, 2012 |
Last year, the top six oil companies in the U.S. made $148.7 billion in profits. That works out to about $407 million a day, $17...
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