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Counting on Speculative Oil and Gas Revenues to Fund our Transportation Needs is Fiscally Reckless

Counting on Speculative Oil and Gas Revenues to Fund our Transportation Needs is Fiscally Reckless Today the House Natural Resources Committee considered the energy portions of the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act (the... Read More

FAA Reauthorization Should Include EAS Reforms

January 31, 2012 | Transportation & Infrastructure

Taxpayers for Common Sense Action sent a letter to House and Senate conferees before they meet today to negotiate differences between... Read More

An Open Letter to the United States Congress: No Special Tax Treatment for Natural Gas Vehicles!

January 30, 2012 | Energy

Taxpayers for Common Sense joined several groups today to call on Congress to oppose the New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans... Read More

Hill Briefing: Don’t Drill and Drive: Weakening the User-Pays Highway Funding Principle Would Endanger Our Nation’s Transportation Infrastructure

January 26, 2012 | Transportation & Infrastructure

TCS Hill Briefing: Don’t Drill and Drive: Weakening the “User-Pays” Highway Funding Principle Would Endanger Our Nation’s Transportation... Read More

State of the Union Energy Proposals

January 25, 2012 | Energy

Oil subsidies must go, but we can’t stop there; Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program will continue to fail; increased... Read More

Outline of House’s Transportation Reauthorization Revealed

January 24, 2012 | Transportation & Infrastructure

An outline of the House majority’s new transportation reauthorization proposal — The American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act — was... Read More

TCS Joins Coalition Against Wasteful Army Corps of Engineer’s Deepening Delaware River Project

Taxpayers for Common Sense joined the Delaware Riverkeeper and Water Protection Network to compile a report analyzing the wasteful Army... Read More

Diverse Groups Mark Expiration of Ethanol Subsidy

January 03, 2012 | Energy

Taxpayers for Common Sense joins several groups in marking the expiration of the largest subsidy to the ethanol industry, something TCS... Read More

Coalition Holds Press Conference on Illinois FutureGen Project

December 19, 2011 | Energy

               FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACTS: December 19, 2011 Kristina Rasmussen (217)... Read More

Plenty of Money Moving Around Defense Authorization Bill

December 14, 2011 | National Security

Plenty of Money Moving Around Defense Authorization Bill Followers of the annual National Defense Authorization Act will recall the kerfuffle that occurred earlier this year after lawmakers in... Read More

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Weekly Wastebasket

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February 15, 2013

Engineering Boondoggles

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