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Preserve NNSA Cost Controls in Defense Authorization Bill

November 28, 2012 | National Security

Taxpayers for Common Sense sent a letter to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees today asking members to protect cost-controlling language for nuclear weapons in the Fiscal Year 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). ... Read More

The Department of Everything

November 15, 2012 | National Security

The Department of Everything We love to remind people that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is the world’s largest bureaucracy, employing more than the world’s... Read More

Congress: Avoid Fiscal Cliff and Go Home

November 14, 2012 | Budget & Tax

Congress: Avoid Fiscal Cliff and Go Home Taxpayers for Common Sense sent a letter today to all members of the 112th Congress outlining what they should do regarding the fiscal cliff.... Read More

DOD Acquisition Reforms: Spending Money is Hard!

November 13, 2012 | National Security

“It turns out acquisition reform is hard,” said Undersecretary of Defense Frank Kendall at yesterday’s rollout of the Defense... Read More

Remarks by TCS President Ryan Alexander on Fiscal Cliff

November 08, 2012 | Budget & Tax

Remarks by TCS President Ryan Alexander on Fiscal Cliff Taxpayers for Common Sense held a media conference call earlier today to discuss the outcomes of the election and what the Lame Duck... Read More

TCS president Ryan Alexander on the 2012 election results

November 07, 2012 |

"This is not the time for small ball. Congress and the President need to work together and enact legislation that makes the fiscal cliff a distant memory."... Read More

President Ms. Ryan Alexander Sliding Past Sequestration Statement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 1, 2012 CONTACTS: Steve Ellis 202-546-8500 x126 or steve@taxpayer.net Taxpayers for Common Sense... Read More

Letter to the Speaker: Washington Cannot Make It Rain

September 14, 2012 | Agriculture

Letter to the Speaker: Washington Cannot Make It Rain Taxpayers for Common Sense sent a letter to Speaker Boehner to oppose $1 trillion worth of bad agriculture policy.... Read More

House Scuttles Debate on Amendment to Truly Stop Next Solyndra

September 12, 2012 | Energy

House Scuttles Debate on Amendment to Truly Stop Next Solyndra The House Committee on Rules decided yesterday to sideline an amendment offered by Representative Tom McClintock (R-CA) to stop all new... Read More

Statement: TCS President on Passage of No More Solyndras Act

September 12, 2012 | Energy

Today House lawmakers passed the fatally flawed "No More Solyndras Act" enabling tens of billions of dollars in high-risk, costly loan guarantees to move forward. Instead of fulfilling its promise, this misleadingly named bill will... Read More

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Weekly Wastebasket

Our weekly reality-check for federal spending. View All

February 15, 2013

Engineering Boondoggles

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