Analysis of Selected Provisions in Hurricane Sandy Emergency Spending Proposals
December 17, 2012
Subsidizing Oil Shale: Tracing Federal Support for Oil Shale Development in the United States
November 29, 2012
Government fiscal reform needs to come in the form of accountability, prioritizing by need and training if long term success is to be seen,...
When you’re in a hole, you stop digging. And when you’ve got a $1.3-trillion deficit and $15.7 trillion in debt, you’ve got to start...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Western states that rely on receipts from coal sales to help fund their governments are concerned the mining industry...
VERNAL, Utah - It isn't working out and it's costing taxpayers money. Those are two reasons a congressional watchdog group opposes oil shale...
The nonpartisan budget watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense reported this week that billions of taxpayer dollars have been risked over...
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - As Congress looks to avoid the looming "fiscal cliff," opponents of a proposal recently introduced in Congress (H.R....
America's most profitable industry banks billions in subsidies—but there's little talk in Washington of putting these handouts on the chopping block. ...
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan budget watchdog group, is protesting a Texas congressman's proposal to...
When is an earmark not really an earmark?
A fresh bit of Congressional finagling raises that question in regard to yet another...
Like things you spot in your side-view mirror, many of the budget numbers flitting around the debt talks are larger than they appear....
Our weekly reality-check for federal spending. View All
While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...
December 17, 2012
November 29, 2012