National Security Reform Program

Archives

• Taxpayer coalition letter to Congress: Keep Homeland Security Earmark Free - May 10, 2005
• Press Release: Lawmakers Add Parochial Projects to War Spending Bill - May 5, 2005
• Fact sheet - Still Fighting the Cold War: No Mission for Nuclear Bunker Busters in the 21st Century - May 5, 2005
• Updated fact sheet - The Modern Pit Facility: A $4 Billion Boondoggle Being Sold on Alarmist Rhetoric and Dated Data - May 2, 2005
• TCS analysis of the Fiscal Year 2005 Defense Appropriations Bill (View the Database)
• Taxpayer coalition letter to Congress: cancel the C-130J - April 28, 2005
• Conference report to accompany the supplemental spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan (part 2 3 4 5). PDF format - May 4, 2005
• Letter to the Senate: Support Senator Dorgan's Amendment to Authorize a Special Commission on War and Reconstruction Contracting - April 19, 2005
• Letter to the Senate from TCS and the Project on Government Oversight: Support cancellation of the C-130J - April 18, 2005
• TCS Statement on the supplemental spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan - April 13, 2005
• Letter to Secretary Rumsfeld - Don't give in to resurrecting the C-130J - February 27, 2005
• Oral Statement of Steve Ellis on waste, fraud and abuse in U.S. government contracting in Iraq before the Senate Democratic Policy Committee - February 14, 2005
• TCS Whitepaper - Full Spectrum Welfare: How Taxpayers Paid for One of the Nation's Most Profitable Video Games - February 23, 2005
• A new meaning to waste: Coalition Provisional Authority Inspector General audit documents KBR's inability to account for thousands of items for work done under LOGCAP III in Kuwait, including generators, trucks, and portable toilets. - October 28, 2004
• The C-130J, overcost and behind schedule - September 20, 2004
  (also, read the Department of Defense Inspector General's report on the C-130J)
• Wastebasket Vol. IX No. 22: Don't Forget Afghanistan - June 4, 2004
• Cut funding to the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, TCS letter to the Senate - June 2, 2004
• Wastebasket Vol. IX No. 16: True Costs of Iraq - April 23, 2004
• May 18, 2004 -- An open letter to the House of Representatives: Keep BRAC on track for 2005
• Statement on the GAO's new report on the F/A-22 Raptor - March 15, 2004
• Opening Statement of Chairman Tom Davis at the Committee for Government Reform's hearing: "The Complex Task of Coordinating Contracts Amid Chaos: The Challenges of Rebuilding a Broken Iraq" - March 15, 2004
• Pentagon expected to cancel the RAH-66 Comanche - February 23, 2004
• Pentagon Supports Senate Tanker Compromise; 4.2 Billion in Savings - November 6, 2003
• CBO Slams Boeing Tanker Lease - August 26, 2003
• Wastebasket Vol. VIII No. 32: NRO Has Got to Go - August 7, 2003
• November 6, 2003 -- Pentagon Supports Senate Tanker Compromise; 4.2 Billion in Savings
• March 25, 2003 -- Cost of War and Post-Saddam Iraq Likely to Exceed $110B This Year
• November 1, 2002 -- Cost of Iraq Invasion Severly Underestimated; Tens of Billions Have Been Ignored
• October 2001 -- New Beginnings: How Base Closures Can Improve Local Economies and Transform America's Military (A Report by Taxpayers for Common Sense and Christopher Hellman of the Center for Defense Information)
• September 25, 2001 -- TCS on Base Closures
• May 1, 2001 -- TCS on National Missile Defense
• April 30, 2001 -- Billions Could Be Saved from Nuclear Weapons Reductions
• March 27, 2001 -- Landrieu Reverses Position on Defense Spending
• March 22, 2001 -- "Report: Pentagon Pays More Than $400 for $39 Sinks"
• February 27, 2001 -- "New Base Closures Bill Could Save Taxpayers Billions"
• June 7, 2000 -- Politics Sinks Nuclear Weapons Cuts, Costs Taxpayers $900 Million
• July 22, 1999 -- "F-22 Cuts Good for Taxpayers"
• July 9, 1999 -- "Army Extends THAAD Deadlines, Signs Agreement to Possibly Rescind Lockheed-Martin Fines"
• May 24, 1999 -- "THAAD to Hold Test After Six Consecutive Misses"
• December 23, 1998 -- " Energy Secretary Richardson Saves Taxpayers $5 Billion "
• September 10, 1998--"National Missile Defense: Taxpayers Urge Another Defeat For Misguided Senate Legislation"
• June 22, 1998-- "F-22 Fighter Plane: Fly Before You Buy"
• March 9, 1998 -- Wastebasket Vol. III No. 7: New Support to Close Excess Bases