Earmark watchdog Taxpayers for Common Sense is barking: The 18 members of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense will bring home 60 percent...
Rep. Bill Cassidy | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.13.2009 | Politics
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...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
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!
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics
Speaking on the Senate floor on Wednesday evening, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) got under the fingernails of the government watchdog group Taxpay...
ABC | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics
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...
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics
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...
The Huffington Post | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics