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Step Outside the MOX

February 06, 2013 | National Security

Step Outside the MOX The Project On Government Oversight and Taxpayers for Common Sense are encouraged by reports of waning support for the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MOX) at the Savannah River Site... Read More

Alexander to testify before Government Reform Committee today

February 01, 2013 | Budget & Tax

Taxpayers for Common Sense President Ryan Alexander will be testifying before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on... Read More

Lactose Intolerance: There is No Dairy Cliff

December 28, 2012 | Agriculture , Budget & Tax

Lactose Intolerance: There is No Dairy Cliff Don’t believe the hype. There is no milk cliff. Yes, after the new year, permanent farm law from 1949 (and 1938) will take effect, but... Read More

Defense Authorization Bill: More Money, Less Savings

December 21, 2012 | National Security

The Senate today passed the final version of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which, though late, will still beat the... Read More

TCS Cited in Bipartisan Congressional Letter on Defense Savings

December 10, 2012 | National Security

A group of eleven Democratic and eleven Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to President Obama and... Read More

Use Common Sense to Rappel the Fiscal Cliff

December 05, 2012 | Budget & Tax

Use Common Sense to Rappel the Fiscal Cliff Today, Taxpayers for Common Sense sent a “Common Sense Proposal to Rappel the Fiscal Cliff” to the President and congressional... Read More

Don’t Toy With the Cliff: Support TCS Today

December 02, 2012 | Budget & Tax

Don’t Toy With the Cliff: Support TCS Today Dear Friends: Congress, the administration, and the punditry at large have been bemoaning the federal government’s fiscal situation.... Read More

Drought Fails to Dry Up Farm Profits

November 30, 2012 | Agriculture

Drought Fails to Dry Up Farm Profits Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that even after this year’s drought, farm profits are on pace to... Read More

Report shows billions risked on oil shale speculation

November 29, 2012 | Budget & Tax , Energy , Natural Resources

Report shows billions risked on oil shale speculation With fiscal cliff looming, TCS calls for end to government handouts for failed oil shale experiments.... Read More

Preserve NNSA Cost Controls in Defense Authorization Bill

November 28, 2012 | National Security

Taxpayers for Common Sense sent a letter to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees today asking members to protect cost-controlling language for nuclear weapons in the Fiscal Year 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). ... Read More

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February 15, 2013

Engineering Boondoggles

While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as... Read More