Oppose Ag-Only Farm Bill: Spends More Than Senate Bill; Changes Make Subsidies Permanent
July 11, 2013
The Essential Air Service (EAS) is a federal subsidy program created in the 1970s as part of airline deregulation. Though the program was...
There was never any question that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel would have to wield the budget axe—simple fiscal and political math...
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Classic inside baseball. Above is just one nugget Taxpayers for Common Sense came across while reading page 237 of...
A second Energy Department solicitation for advanced fossil energy loan guarantees is coming soon, according to a recent Government...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released their annual analysis of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Guarantee...
The current CR and spending bills theoretically mimic the FY13 appropriations bills, but we’ve started looking to see where lawmakers added and subtracted dollars....
In a great piece about the proposed Charlottesville (VA) Bypass, James Bacon from Bacon’s Rebellion lays out several significant problems...
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced yesterday a second funding opportunity for its Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Program. The new...
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released its bi-annual “High-Risk” report detailing federal programs and...
Last year's trillion-dollar farm bills would have saved billions less than proponents claimed....
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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