Letters & Testimony

TCS Urges Senate to Oppose Amendments for Costly Synthetic Fuels

This week the Senate is considering the Defense Authorization bill, S. 1390. Several Senators have offered amendments regarding the use of...

UPDATE: Senate Strips F-22s From Defense Authorization Bill

(July 21) The Senate today took a small step for Pentagon reform and a giant step for fiscal sanity when it voted 58-40 to approve the...

TCS and NTU to House: Don’t Fund F-22

Today, Taxpayers for Common Sense and the National Taxpayers Union sent a joint letter to all members of the House of Representatives...

TCS Letter to Congress: Protect Taxpayers from Risky Reactors

Today Taxpayers for Common Sense sent a letter to each member of the House and Senate urging them to oppose any legislative actions to...

TCS Letter to the Senate on Hardrock Mining Laws

                 June 23, 2009 Dear Senator, For more than 137...

Letter to Congress: Don’t Overload the Supplemental

Keep C-17s and earmarks out of the 2009 war spending bill.   Download a pdf of TCS's joint letter to Congress     June 2,...

Letter to the President: Pledge to Keep the Stimulus Earmark Free

The President The White House Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President, On behalf of the millions of members of our respective...

Support Independent Oversight of the Stimulus

President Obama is likely to place his signature on a $789 billion stimulus bill by President’s Day. Thank you to all of you who have...

Letter to the House: Oppose $50 Billion DOE Loan Guarantee Program in the Stimulus

February 10, 2009 Dear Representative, Taxpayers for Common Sense Action urges you to oppose the inclusion of an additional $50...

Letter to the Senate: Stop $50 Billion Blow-Up of DOE Loan Guarantee Program

(Download a pdf version of this letter) February 2, 2009 Dear Senator, Taxpayers for Common Sense Action urges you to oppose...

Engineering Boondoggles

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