Letters & Testimony

Costly Water Projects Bill Demands Scrutiny

Taxpayers for Common Sense and eight other organizations allied on this issue urge scrutiny of S.601, the Water Resources Development Act of 2013...

Support Bill to Prioritize Payments on U.S. Debt

Today, TCS sent a letter to Rep. McClintock supporting his bill to prioritize payments on U.S. debt....

Joint Letter to the Senate: Support Crop Insurance Transparency

Taxpayers for Common Sense and eight other fiscal conservative organizations urge support for a crop insurance transparency amendment. ...

An Open Letter to President Obama and the Congress: Spend Less, and Spend Smarter at the Pentagon

TCS joined groups from across the political spectrum telling the President and Congress that the Pentagon’s budget must be right-sized....

Letter to Congress: Harvest Real Savings by Reforming Agriculture Policy

Taxpayers for Common Sense and twelve other fiscal watchdogs sent a letter to Congress urging they harvest real savings in any new farm bill....

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...

Defense Savings Strengthen Our Economic Security

February 6, 2013 Dear Member of Congress, On behalf of the undersigned organizations and...

TCS Testifies before House Oversight and Government Reform Committee

Ryan Alexander testified before House Oversight and Government Reform Committee...

Congress: Only Fund Emergency Needs in Sandy Supplemental

  January 11, 2012 Dear Representative, As you know, the House of...

TCS Cited in Bipartisan Congressional Letter on Defense Savings

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

Syria: Excuse 535 To Not Cut the Deficit

Volume XVIII No. 37 Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters...