Oppose Ag-Only Farm Bill: Spends More Than Senate Bill; Changes Make Subsidies Permanent
July 11, 2013
The United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) announced Friday it will shut down its Paducah gaseous diffusion plant, a Cold War-era...
As you have no doubt heard by now, an interstate bridge collapsed on a major travel corridor in Washington State. The bridge spans the...
Over the past decade, extreme weather and storms have become increasingly commonplace – including coastal storms, wildfires, droughts,...
The most recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s $955 billion farm bill continues to show...
As we expected, the House and Senate Agriculture Committees went to great lengths this week to save as little money as possible in their...
Late last week, the House and Senate Agriculture Committees released new drafts of five-year farm bills that propose paltry savings--$18...
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and related Agencies held a hearing today to discuss the FY2014...
A recent report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) questions whether or not the nearly decade long, $1.65 billion FutureGen...
The Department of Energy (DOE) and Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) announced yesterday that a subsidiary of B&W—B&W mPower, LLC—will...
Taxpayers for Common Sense staff will be combing through the budget over the next several hours and days and bringing to light various...
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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