What's Happening in Stop Waste

Obama Waves Veto Pen at Wasteful Fighter Jet

President Obama came out swinging yesterday, issuing the first veto threat of his presidency to tackle a congressional sacred cow...

Senate Energy Committee Passes American Clean Energy Leadership Act

Today, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources completed work on the American Clean Energy Leadership Act (ACELA), passing...

Nuclear Weapons: Transformation or Business As Usual?

Two Senate hearings on nuclear weapons this week showed that the Obama administration’s charge toward a smaller—and hopefully...

Knik Arm Crossing Gets Another Cost Estimate

An independent cost estimate puts the price tag for the Knik Arm Crossing—a.k.a. Don Young’s Way—in Anchorage, Alaska at $686 million...

Bank Bailout: GAO to Treasury Department - More Effort Needed

The U.S. Government Accountability Office has just released its second report on the progress of the Treasury Department’s in...

National Geographic To Air Government-Funded Homeland Security Special

A friend of Taxpayers for Common Sense in Maine just alerted us to something very interesting. Tonight, National Geographic is going to...

Evaluating Economic Stimulus Legislation

The House of Representatives is expected Wednesday to vote on an economic stimulus package, H.R. 1, the ‘‘American Recovery and...

Stimulus Adds to Stratospheric Satellite Costs

Despite energetic lobbying by the defense industry (and some lawmakers) the $825 billion stimulus bill now emerging from committee...

Are Bailout Banks Lending Money?

This morning, The New York Times published an excellent story about some of the problems with the financial sector bailout – the Troubled...

Stimulus Not Needed for Department of Defense

Of all the industries in line for a handout in this financially frightening time, the defense industry would seem to bring up the rear....

Engineering Boondoggles

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