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View earmark details Former Sen. Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia) - Earmarks Requested

Died in Office, June 28, 2010 • Alternate Name: Robert Carlyle Byrd
All     Solo     With Other Members     
* Numbers other than "All Sponsored Earmarks" do not include earmarks requested by the president to better reflect political power. This follows the methodology used by Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Fiscal Year(s) 2008-2010 Number Cost
Solo Earmarks                     Number 277 Cost $933,540,838
With Other Members          Number 53 Cost $150,500,500
All Congressional                Number 330 Cost $1,084,041,338
All Sponsored Earmarks      Number 343* Cost $1,196,603,338*
Earmark Details Year Description (Bill)

(desc)

Amount Additional Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description First Book, for the expansion of programs in West Virginia
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $215,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Washington, District of Columbia Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Wetzel County Hospital, for the expansion and remolding of the Emergency Department.
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $862,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Wetzel, West Virginia Recipients Wetzel County (W.Va.) Hospital
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Wheeling Jesuit University, Coal slurry impoundment project at the National Technology Transfer Center
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $1,163,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Wheeling, West Virginia Recipients Wheeling (W.Va.) University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description McKelvey Foundation, to an entrepreneurial college scholarships for rural, low-income Pennsylvania and West Virginia high school graduates
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $167,000 Sponsors Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA)
Former Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA)
Locations New Wilmington, Pennsylvania Recipients McKelvey Foundation
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description West Virginia University, for the construction and equipping of medical simulation research and training centers in Morgantown, Charleston, and Martinsburg.
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $2,716,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Morgantown, West Virginia Recipients West Virginia University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description American Federation for the Blind Technology and Employment Center, Huntington, WV, to expand the capacity of the AFB-TECH center for development of technology for the blind
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $1,000,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Huntington, West Virginia Recipients AFB TECH
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Fisherman's Hall
(Interior)
Amount $125,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Charles Town, West Virginia Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge
(Interior)
Amount $500,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations West Virginia Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge - river island erosion mitigation
(Interior)
Amount $800,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations West Virginia Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Ohio River Sanitation Commission for organic detection system improvements
(Interior)
Amount $1,000,000 Sponsors Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Locations West Virginia Recipients

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