Letters & Testimony
Oppose Ag-Only Farm Bill: Spends More Than Senate Bill; Changes Make Subsidies Permanent
July 11, 2013
Hearing on Alaska Native Corporations Probes Wasteful Spending
July 21, 2009 |
A July 16 hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight on federal procurement... 
UPDATE: Senate Strips F-22s From Defense Authorization Bill
July 20, 2009 |
(July 21) The Senate today took a small step for Pentagon reform and a giant step for fiscal sanity when it voted 58-40 to approve the...
House Defense Appropriations Committee Members Rake in Nearly $1 million from Potential Earmark Beneficiaries
July 15, 2009 |
A Taxpayers for Common Sense analysis found that the House lawmakers who write the annual defense spending bill asked for billions of...
House Appropriators Reject Weapons Cuts
July 15, 2009 |
The House Defense Appropriations Subcommitte today set the tone for the upcoming debate over Congresses’ biggest spending bill. Following...
TCS Holds Congressional Briefing on Defense Spending
July 14, 2009 |
Taxpayers for Common Sense sponsored a briefing for House of Representatives members and staffers Wednesday, July 15, titled Defense...
TCS and NTU to House: Don’t Fund F-22
July 14, 2009 |
Today, Taxpayers for Common Sense and the National Taxpayers Union sent a joint letter to all members of the House of Representatives...
Oversight and Government Reform Hearing on the V-22 Osprey
June 25, 2009 |
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing Tuesday on the future of the V-22 Osprey, an aircraft with a...
Obama Waves Veto Pen at Wasteful Fighter Jet
June 24, 2009 |
President Obama came out swinging yesterday, issuing the first veto threat of his presidency to tackle a congressional sacred cow...
Nuclear Weapons: Transformation or Business As Usual?
June 04, 2009 |
Two Senate hearings on nuclear weapons this week showed that the Obama administration’s charge toward a smaller—and hopefully...
Letter to Congress: Don’t Overload the Supplemental
June 02, 2009 |
Keep C-17s and earmarks out of the 2009 war spending bill.
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