Taxpayers for Common Sense

Lucia Graves

Sanders, Ellison Unveil Legislation To End Fossil Fuel Subsidies

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Taxpayer Subsidies, Oil and Gas Subsidies, May Boeve, 350.Org, Friends of the Earth, Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Taxpayers for Common Sense, Oil, Keith Ellison, Bernie Sanders, Natural Gas, Rep. Keith Ellison, Bill Mckibben, Coal, Senator Bernie Sanders, Green News

WASHINGTON -- Progressive lawmakers Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) teamed up on Thursday to introduce legislation design...

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33 Lawmakers Directed Over $300 Million To Local Projects

The Washington Post | David S. Fallis, Scott Higham and Kimberly Kindy | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Dennis Hastert, Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, Lisa Wright, Lawrence Butler, Citizens Against Government Waste, Bennie Thompson, Richard Garcia, Taxpayers for Common Sense, Congressional Earmarks, Rubén Hinojosa, Roscoe Barlett, Claire McCaskill, STOCK Act, Politics News

Thirty-three members of Congress have directed more than $300 million in earmarks and other spending provisions to dozens of public projects that are ...

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Paul Blumenthal

Should Super Congress Be Super Transparent?

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 10.02.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The proposed so-called "super Congress," created by congressional leaders in the debt deal and required to find $1.5 trillion in debt re...

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The Problem With Potholes: Neglected Road Repair Poses Huge Liabilities for Many States

Geoffrey Anderson | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Road Repair, Transportation Spending, Potholes, Pavement, Taxpayers for Common Sense, Smart Growth America, Smart Growth, Politics News
Geoffrey Anderson

For decades, states have invested disproportionately in road expansion and left regular repair and preservation underfunded. As a result of these spen...

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Transparency Or Transparently Corrupt: What Kind Of Government Do We Want?

Cliff Schecter | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Taxpayers for Common Sense, Congress, Aan, New York, Ryan Alexander, paymentaccuracy.gov, Ibm, Olympics, Norm Coleman, Cliff Schecter, City Forward, Democracy, recovery.gov, Winston Churhill, Stimulus, Lobbyist, Exploration, Government, Transparency, Apps.gov, Onvia, data.gov, recovery.org, USAspending.Gov, The Sunlight Foundation, Chicago, The Obama Administration, San Francisco, Technology News
Cliff Schecter

I had a client a few years back named Onvia. Onvia provided better and more timely information than the federal government, regarding where stimulus d...

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Elise Foley

House Votes To Kill F-35 Second Engine Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: General Electric, Pentagon, Ge, House GOP, Pratt & Whitney, John Boehner, Cr, F035 Striker Jets, Military Funding, House Budget, Rolls-Royce, Fighter Jets, F-35 Fighter Jets, Continuing Resolution, Department of Defense, Second Engine, Taxpayers for Common Sense, Tom Rooney, House Continuing Resolution, F-35, Politics News

Amanda Terkel contributed reporting. WASHINGTON -- More than half of the House Republicans voted on Wednesday to earmark $450 million in funds for a ...

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White House Report Gives Stimulus Package High Marks

washingtonpost.com | Lori Montgomery | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Economic Stimulus Package, November Election, Taxpayers for Common Sense, Obama Administration, Jared Bernstein, Joe Biden, Congressional Budget Office, Business News

The massive economic stimulus package President Obama pushed through Congress last year is coming in on time and under budget - and with strikingly fe...

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Defense Pork Ladled Out To Defense Subcommittees' Campaign Contributors

The Huffington Post | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pork, Defense Spending, Earmarks, Lobbyblog, Taxpayers for Common Sense, Transparency, Politics News

Earmark watchdog Taxpayers for Common Sense is barking: The 18 members of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense will bring home 60 percent...

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Earmarks Should Require an Itemized Receipt

Rep. Bill Cassidy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rep. Jackie Speier, Anti-Earmarkers, Sunlight Foundation, Earmarks, Nancy Pelosi Earmarks, Taxpayers for Common Sense, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, The Hill, Rep. Bill Cassidy, Taxpayers, Politics News
Rep. Bill Cassidy

Transparency, accountability, and rigorous oversight are the keys to cutting waste, fraud, and abuse in government. They are also the keys to regaining taxpayers' trust.

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Ryan Grim

71 Lawmakers Fail To Disclose Earmarks By Deadline

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tcs, Taxpayers for Common Sense, Earmarks, Earmark Disclosure, Transparency, Politics News

Making rules is easy enough. Following them - not so much. More than 48 hours since the deadline to disclose earmark requests passed, 71 members of C...

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Congress Takes the Pledge -- But First a Little Binge

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Budget Discipline, Dave Obey, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Steve Ellis, Omnibus Spending Bill, Congress, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Earmarks, Nancy Pelosi, Budget Reform, Spending Reform, Taxpayers for Common Sense, Harry Reid, Congressional Spending, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

And now, ladies and gentlemen, direct from Capitol Hill for your after-dinner entertainment -- won't you give it up, please, for: Your Congressional Chorus!

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Ryan Grim

Reid Spokesman: Anti-Earmark Crusader A "Partisan Hack"

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stimulus Earmarks, Senator Harry Reid, Earmarks, Reid Earmarks, Steve Ellis, Taxpayers for Common Sense, Harry Reid, Pork, Senator Reid, Omnibus Earmarks, Reid, Jim Manley, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Reid Aides, Politics News

Speaking on the Senate floor on Wednesday evening, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) got under the fingernails of the government watchdog group Taxpay...

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Feds Raid Firm Tied To Democratic Rep. John Murtha

ABC | Posted 05.25.2011

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The FBI raided the offices of a defense lobbying firm with close ties to Democratic Rep. John Murtha (Penn.), sources tell ABC News. The FBI searched...

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'08 earmarks

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Washington Times, Earmarks, Bellantoni, Taxpayers for Common Sense, 2009 Defense Authorization Bill, Joe Lieberman, Joe Biden, Lindsey Graham, Politics News
Christina Bellantoni

First posted at WashingtonTimes.com at 3:45 p.m. Taxpayers for Common Sense is out with an analysis of earmark requests in the 2009 Defense Authoriza...

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