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With the Senate's begrudging acceptance of an earmark moratorium, taxpayers just achieved a well-earned victory on the road to fiscal...
Today, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-HI) announced a two year moratorium on earmarks. The call comes after...
Today, Taxpayers for Common Sense VP Steve Ellis spoke with NPR regarding ways to get around the earmark ban.
You can listen to the NPR...
Steve Ellis appeared on MSNBC's "The Last Word" program to discuss the earmark moratorium with Lawrence O'Donnell and Congressman Tim...
Senate Democrats unveiled a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill yesterday. The bill is over 1,900 pages in length. Taxpayers for Common...
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Taxpayers for Common Sense was mentioned by Senator John McCain (R-AZ) on the Senate floor today about our work on the...
(Update 9/30/2010)
Today, Taxpayers for Common Sense participated in a discussion on whether taxpayers should bear the risks for the...
Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) told a local newspaper this week that she supports a ban on earmarks – but then turned around and said that...
Yesterday, while speaking on the Senate floor, Sen. Inhofe (R-OK) highlighted the earmark reforms that TCS developed with other...
Yesterday, the Advisory Committee on Transparency hosted “the Future of Earmark Transparency” on Capitol Hill.
The Advisory Committee...
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While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...
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