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Letter Supporting Bipartisan Effort to Cut Billions in Ethanol Giveaway

May 03, 2011 | Letters & Testimony | Agriculture , Energy

Taxpayers for Common Sense joined a broad and diverse coalition applauding Senators Coburn (R-OK) and Feinstein (D-CA) for combining their efforts to end billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded subsidies for conventional ethanol by introducing the bipartisan “Ethanol Subsidy and Tariff Repeal Act.”... Read More

TCS Letter to House Speaker John Boehner Agreeing with his Recent Comments on Oil Subsidies

April 25, 2011 | Letters & Testimony | Budget & Tax , Energy

Taxpayers for Common Sense sent a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, regarding his recent comments that oil companies "ought to be paying their fair share."... Read More

Coalition Letter Opposing Wasteful Mississippi River Locks

April 17, 2011 | Letters & Testimony | Transportation & Infrastructure

Taxpayers for Common Sense recently joined other Nicollet Island Coalition members on a letter to the Army Corps of Engineers detailing how new locks on the Upper Mississippi are economically unjustified.... Read More

TCS Letter to the House & Senate Energy & Water Development Subcommittees: Stop New Authority To DOE Loan Guarantee Program

April 13, 2011 | Letters & Testimony | Energy

Taxpayers for Common Sense along with the George C. Marshall Institute, the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and the National Taxpayers Union, sent a letter to both the House and Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittees urging lawmakers to not provide additional loan guarantee authority to the Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program in the Fiscal Year 2012 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill.... Read More

TCS Letter in Support of H.R. 1309, the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2011

April 05, 2011 | Letters & Testimony | Transportation & Infrastructure

Today, Taxpayers for Common Sense sent a letter to Representative Judy Biggert (R-IL), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity, in support of H.R. 1309 the “Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2011.”... Read More

Coalition Letter to Congress Calls for an End to Energy Subsidies

March 17, 2011 | Letters & Testimony | Budget & Tax , Energy

Taxpayers for Common Sense along with a coalition of nearly 30 groups sent a letter to Congress calling for an end to energy... Read More

TCS Testimony on the National Flood Insurance Program

March 11, 2011 | Letters & Testimony | Transportation & Infrastructure

Today, Vice President Steve Ellis of Taxpayers for Common Sense testified on behalf of the SmarterSafer Coalition at a House Financial... Read More

TCS Testifies at the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

March 03, 2011 | Letters & Testimony | Agriculture , Budget & Tax , Energy

On March 3, 2011 Taxpayers for Common Sense President Ryan Alexander testified at a House Committee on Oversight and Government reform... Read More

A Taxpayer Victory!  Thank You!

February 02, 2011 | Letters & Testimony | Budget & Tax , Earmarks & Appropriations

With the Senate's begrudging acceptance of an earmark moratorium, taxpayers just achieved a well-earned victory on the road to fiscal... Read More

Letter to Congress: Where to Start Cutting to Trim the Deficit

January 11, 2011 | Letters & Testimony | Agriculture , Budget & Tax , Energy , National Security , Transportation & Infrastructure

Today Taxpayers for Common Sense delivered to leadership in both the House and Senate a report on how Congress can quickly cut nearly... Read More

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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... Read More