(Update 9/30/2010)

Today, Taxpayers for Common Sense participated in a discussion on whether taxpayers should bear the risks for the energy sector with loan guarantees.

Relevant documents taken from the briefing are presented below. 

Documents:

Nuclear Power Federal Loan Guarantees: The Next Multi-Billion Dollar Bailout?

Nuclear Power's Search for the Taxpayer's Wallet

DOE Loan Guarantee Program: History and Taxpayer Risk

2010 Green Scissors Report

On Tuesday, November 30^th Taxpayers for Common Sense, National Taxpayers Union, the Heritage Foundation, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center held a discussion on the impacts of federal energy loan guarantees on the federal budget and energy markets. Both the House and Senate Energy and Water Appropriations bills include an expansion of the program and Congress must decide whether it is in the taxpayers’ interest to continue to provide increased budget authority to the program.