Letters & Testimony
Oppose Ag-Only Farm Bill: Spends More Than Senate Bill; Changes Make Subsidies Permanent
July 11, 2013
House Leadership Proposes Outspending Senate in Farm Bill
July 09, 2013 |
Fresh on the heels of losing a farm bill vote on the Floor because the rushed bill did not cut spending enough, House leadership is... 
Letter to Congress: Trim Funding for B61 Bomb in Energy Spending Bill
July 09, 2013 |
Taxpayers for Common Sense sent a letter to Congress today urging support to trim funding for the B61 bomb....
Joint Letter to Congress: Support for Amendment to Cut Wasteful R,D&D
July 09, 2013 |
Taxpayers for Common Sense joined several groups today in urging Congress to eliminate wasteful subsidies for the United States Enrichment Corporation....
DOE Recommits To Fossil Fuel Loan Guarantees
July 08, 2013 |
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced last week it would offer an expanded, second solicitation for advanced fossil energy loan...
Another Vogtle Reactor Deadline Passes
July 02, 2013 |
TCS published a press release today on another deadline passed by DOE to reach an agreement on loan guarantee terms for Southern Company's Plant Vogtle...
Medicine Bow Liquid Coal Facility on the Rocks
June 27, 2013 |
Medicine Bow Fuel and Power LLC—subsidiary of DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC—has filed updated construction and development plans with the state...
Truth Checking Trillion-Dollar Farm Bill Apologists
June 26, 2013 |
The rhetoric from defenders of Washington’s heavy-handed role in agriculture reached a peak during recent House debate on a nearly $1...
Rhetoric on Adjusted Gross Income Grossly Distorts the Facts
June 26, 2013 |
Many farm bill apologists attacked basic means testing as a “poison pill” for the farm bill.
House Agriculture Committee leaders Frank...
Math Like Chairman Lucas’ is the Reason We Have a $17 Trillion Debt
June 26, 2013 |
"And if you look at how [crop insurance] has worked in the 7 years prior to the onset of the drought of 2011, basically the Federal...
TCS Statement on House Rejection of 2013 Farm Bill
June 20, 2013 |
Below is a statement by Ryan Alexander, president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, on the House's rejection of the 2013 farm bill. ...
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