What's Happening in Transportation & Infrastructure

Alaska Adopts Sensible Policy on Transportation Earmarks

Earlier this week, our attention was pointed to a new earmark policy released by the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public...

Still Fortifying Against Barge Company Bailouts

The IWTF was created to pay for construction and maintenance on much of the nation’s most used waterways. Funded by a tax on fuel used...

Taxpayers Oppose Barge Company Bailout

Taxpayers for Common Sense recently joined a number of other organizations in opposing attempts to further weaken cost-sharing...

Taxpayers Must Not Carry Water for Bad Projects: Comments on the Draft Principles and Standards for Water Resource Projects

Taxpayers for Common Sense submitted comments to the Federal Register concerning revisions to how the nation's water resources are...

Ensuring Taxpayer Losses

TCS Vice President Steve Ellis was invited to testify before a House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee holding a hearing...

The Flap Over the Jobs Bill: Flawed Politics of the Past Would Continue to Distribute Funds in the Future

Earlier this week, the Senate passed its version of the jobs bill—a bill which is flawed from a transportation and taxpayer perspective. ...

TCS Letter in Opposition to Potentially Costly Water Bill

Today the House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on  Water and Power held a hearing on H.R. 4225, a bill sponsored by Rep....

House Approves 3-Month Highway Bill Extension

The House of Representatives last night voted overwhelmingly – 335-85 – to extend the nation’s transportation program (SAFETEA-LU), which...

TCS Thanks Representatives Jim McDermott and Tom Petri for Introduction of Fiscally Responsible Salmon Bill

Today Congressmen Jim McDermott (D-WA) and Tom Petri (R- WI), along with 23 other cosponsors from across the country, introduced the...

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: Hearing on Highway Trust Fund Insolvency

The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works discussed the looming insolvency of the highway trust fund today with Secretary of...

Engineering Boondoggles

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