Analysis of Selected Provisions in Hurricane Sandy Emergency Spending Proposals
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Subsidizing Oil Shale: Tracing Federal Support for Oil Shale Development in the United States
November 29, 2012
There are a lot of legitimate concerns about the size of the economic stimulus legislation and where some of the specific funds are...
A friend of Taxpayers for Common Sense in Maine just alerted us to something very interesting. Tonight, National Geographic is going to...
The latest version of the economic stimulus legislation that contains both the appropriations and tax portions of the legislation has...
Despite energetic lobbying by the defense industry (and some lawmakers) the $825 billion stimulus bill now emerging from committee...
Taxpayers for Common Sense applauds Sens. John McCain (R-AZ), Russ Feingold (D-WI), Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) for...
Congressman Bobby Rush (D-IL) appears to have taken the saying “taking care of your flock” to another level. Rush, who is also an...
Today, the House and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman announced new earmark reforms for FY10 spending bills. The new reforms:...
Just in time for a new war funding request to hit Capitol Hill, a trio of recently released documents recall just how badly the Pentagon...
It’s been about two months since the U.S. Treasury Department implemented its Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). With nearly half of...
Concerns are rising that the Treasury Department is allowing banks too much leeway to decide how they spending the bailout funds. Reports...
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While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...
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