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BETA - New TCS Digital Infrastructure

BETA - New TCS Digital Infrastructure Our new website and digital toolkit is live in BETA testing.... Read More

Stop the Next Solyndra: Put the Brakes on Troubled Loan Guarantee Program

June 04, 2012 | Energy

Reps. Kucinich (D-OH) and McClintock (R-CA) have offered an amendment to stop new loan guarantees from the Department of Energy (DOE)... Read More

End USEC Giveaways in Energy and Water Appropriations Bill

June 04, 2012 | Budget & Tax , Energy

Congress is considering spending $100 million on the United States Enrichment Corporation’s (USEC) Piketon, Ohio enrichment project... Read More

Defense Authorization Antics Begin

May 24, 2012 | National Security

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is the largest policy bill directing the nation’s annual spending, accounting for some $650... Read More

House Backdoor Earmarks $150 million for Parochial Boondoggle

This morning the House voted down an amendment that would have stripped the $150 million added to the National Defense Authorization Act for the United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC). ... Read More

Stop $150 million for troubled uranium project in NDAA

$150 million for the United States Enrichment Corporation's (USEC) Piketon, Ohio enrichment facility has been added to the National... Read More

TCS Statement on Sanders-Ellison Bill Eliminating Fossil Fuel Subsidies

May 09, 2012 | Energy

Statement of Ryan Alexander, President, Taxpayers for Common Sense on the introduction of the Sanders-Ellison bill to eliminate... Read More

Senators Call for Common Sense Changes to Crop Insurance

May 09, 2012 | Agriculture

This week Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) took an important step highlighting the need to rein in the largest taxpayer... Read More

Senate Agriculture Committee Proposes Entitlement Filled Farm Bill

April 19, 2012 | Agriculture

The Senate Agriculture Committee today released its version of the Farm Bill and it appears to fall far short of needed reforms. And... Read More

House Passes Another Transportation Extension in Attempt to Get to Conference With Senate

The House today passed a 90-day extension of the nation’s federal transportation program (H.R. 4348) by a vote of 293-197. This... 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