What's Happening in Agriculture

Letter to Senate: Oppose Bloated Farm Bill

Taxpayers for Common Sense sent a letter to the Senate, urging support for common sense reforms to the 2013 farm bill....

Support McCain-Flake Amendment No. 955

    Support McCain-Flake Amendment No. 955 May 23, 2013 The...

Fighting Deficit Reduction

The most recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s $955 billion farm bill continues to show...

2013 House and Senate Farm Bills Stack on More Subsidies

As we expected, the House and Senate Agriculture Committees went to great lengths this week to save as little money as possible in their...

Support Bipartisan Crop Insurance Reform Legislation

Today, TCS joined 11 other fiscal conservative groups in supporting the Bipartisan Assisting Family Farmers through Insurance Reform Measures Act....

Paltry Savings Proposed in 2013 House and Senate Farm Bills

Late last week, the House and Senate Agriculture Committees released new drafts of five-year farm bills that propose paltry savings--$18...

Fiscal Conservatives Letter on Farm Policy: The “Terrible Twelve”

Today, TCS joined 10 other fiscally conservative groups highlighting a dozen wasteful farm policy programs. ...

Diverse Stakeholders Applaud Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Reform

Today, a bipartisan set of Representatives introduced a bill to take long overdue steps toward reforming the broken Renewable Fuel...

TCS Analysis of the FY14 Presidential Budget Request

Taxpayers for Common Sense staff will be combing through the budget over the next several hours and days and bringing to light various...

Joint Letter to the Senate: Support Crop Insurance Transparency

Taxpayers for Common Sense and eight other fiscal conservative organizations urge support for a crop insurance transparency amendment. ...

Syria: Excuse 535 To Not Cut the Deficit

Volume XVIII No. 37 Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters...