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President funds transportation with irresponsible ‘Peace Dividend’

The administration's FY 2013 Presidential Budget Request proposes a $476 billion six-year reauthorization bill. This is much higher... Read More

TCS Analysis of the FY13 Presidential Budget Request

Last Updated: February 19, 2012 The FY2013 Presidential Budget Request was released this morning (2/13/2012). TCS staff will be posting... Read More

TCS’s Reaction to the House’s Most Recent Transportation Bill

February 08, 2012 | Transportation & Infrastructure

Taxpayers for Common Sense today released the following in reaction to the House’s most recent transportation bill: The House today... Read More

Senate Transportation Bill: Driving in the Wrong Direction

February 08, 2012 | Transportation & Infrastructure

Senate leadership is busy patting themselves on the back in the wake of Senate Finance Committee approval of a slate of “pay-fors” to... Read More

Speaker’s “Drilling for Transportation Dollars” Proposal: A Dead End for Taxpayers

February 01, 2012 | Transportation & Infrastructure

[Updated 2/1/2012] The Natural Resources Committee today passed three energy-related bills today, and the royalties that would result... Read More

Hill Briefing: Don’t Drill and Drive: Weakening the User-Pays Highway Funding Principle Would Endanger Our Nation’s Transportation Infrastructure

January 26, 2012 | Transportation & Infrastructure

TCS Hill Briefing: Don’t Drill and Drive: Weakening the “User-Pays” Highway Funding Principle Would Endanger Our Nation’s Transportation... Read More

State of the Union Energy Proposals

January 25, 2012 | Energy

Oil subsidies must go, but we can’t stop there; Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program will continue to fail; increased... Read More

Outline of House’s Transportation Reauthorization Revealed

January 24, 2012 | Transportation & Infrastructure

An outline of the House majority’s new transportation reauthorization proposal — The American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act — was... Read More

Plenty of Money Moving Around Defense Authorization Bill

December 14, 2011 | National Security

Plenty of Money Moving Around Defense Authorization Bill Followers of the annual National Defense Authorization Act will recall the kerfuffle that occurred earlier this year after lawmakers in... Read More

House Transportation Reauthorization Postponed as Deadline Approaches

December 01, 2011 | Transportation & Infrastructure

With the March 31, 2012 expiration of nation’s surface transportation legislation steadily approaching, House leaders informed... 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