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USEC’s Paducah Uranium Enrichment Facility Closing

May 29, 2013 | Our Take | Energy

USEC’s Paducah Uranium Enrichment Facility Closing The United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) announced Friday it will shut down its Paducah gaseous diffusion plant, a Cold War-era... Read More

Letter to Senate: Oppose Bloated Farm Bill

May 23, 2013 | Letters & Testimony | 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.... Read More

Fighting Deficit Reduction

May 20, 2013 | Our Take | Agriculture

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

2013 House and Senate Farm Bills Stack on More Subsidies

May 15, 2013 | Our Take | Agriculture

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... Read More

Support Bipartisan Crop Insurance Reform Legislation

May 15, 2013 | Letters & Testimony | Agriculture

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.... Read More

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

May 13, 2013 | Letters & Testimony | Agriculture

Fiscal Conservatives Letter on Farm Policy: The “Terrible Twelve” Today, TCS joined 10 other fiscally conservative groups highlighting a dozen wasteful farm policy programs. ... Read More

House Subcommittee Discusses BLM Budget

May 07, 2013 | Our Take | Energy , Natural Resources

House Subcommittee Discusses BLM Budget The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and related Agencies held a hearing today to discuss the FY2014... Read More

New Report Casts Further Doubt on Troubled FutureGen Project

April 19, 2013 | Our Take | Energy

New Report Casts Further Doubt on Troubled FutureGen Project A recent report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) questions whether or not the nearly decade long, $1.65 billion FutureGen... Read More

Comments to House Ways and Means Committee 2013 Tax Reform Working Groups

April 15, 2013 | Letters & Testimony | Budget & Tax

Comments to House Ways and Means Committee 2013 Tax Reform Working Groups The House Ways and Means Committee created eleven tax reform working groups to focus on select issues within the U.S. tax code as part of... Read More

Essential Air Service: Illustrating Coming Changes to the Program

April 04, 2013 | Our Take | Transportation & Infrastructure

Essential Air Service: Illustrating Coming Changes to the Program The Essential Air Service (EAS) is a federal subsidy program created in the 1970s as part of airline deregulation. Though the program was... Read More

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September 13, 2013

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... Read More