Oppose Ag-Only Farm Bill: Spends More Than Senate Bill; Changes Make Subsidies Permanent
July 11, 2013
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today passed its version of a transportation reauthorization bill, to replace the...
Both the House and Senate are poised to begin deliberations over different versions of transportation reauthorization legislation. Though...
Department of Energy (DOE) loan guarantees are and should be under the magnifying glass. On August 31, 2011, the first company to receive...
According to a business plan released by the California High Speed Rail Authority this week, the costs for a high speed rail connection...
Congressmen Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) sent a letter this week to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction...
Today, Taxpayers for Common Sense submitted comments to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas...
UPDATE:
In 2011, Taxpayers for Common Sense celebrated a major policy win. Congress let the wasteful ethanol tax credit (VEETC) expire...
Today the House continued its investigation of the failed Department of Energy loan guarantee to the solar start-up Solyndra. Today...
Updated 9/28/2011
Reports of a meeting between House Republican leadership and Rep. John Mica (R-FL), Chair of the Transportation and...
Today, a portion of the Dept. of Energy Loan Guarantee Program will expire. While that’s good news for taxpayers the trouble is far from...
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Volume XVIII No. 37
Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters...
July 11, 2013