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Where are this year's earmarks 
Fiscal Year(s)
Sen. Ben Cardin (
-Maryland) - Earmarks Requested
| In Office |
Alternate Name: Benjamin Louis Cardin
|
* 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.
Earmarks with this alert are not included in member tallies
| Fiscal Year(s) 2008-2010 | Number | Cost |
Solo Earmarks
|
28 | $8,689,300 |
|
With Other Members
|
381 | $604,198,610 |
|
All Congressional
|
409 | $612,887,910 |
|
All Sponsored Earmarks
|
440* | $1,611,977,910* |
| Earmark Details | Year |
Description (Bill) (asc) |
Amount | Additional Sponsors | Locations | Receiving Organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
2008 |
Chesapeake Information Based Aeronautics Consortium, partnership of Morgan State University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and Bowie State University for continued aviation safety research and development (Commerce, Justice and Science) |
$3,572,000 |
Rep. Elijah Cummings -MD) Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger -MD)Sen. Barbara Mikulski -MD)...more |
Maryland | Morgan State University; University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Bowie (Md.) State University |
|
|
2009 |
Montgomery County, MD Up County Youth Opportunity Center (Commerce, Justice and Science) |
$450,000 |
Rep. Chris Van Hollen -MD) |
Rockville, Maryland | Montgomery County, Md. |
|
|
2008 |
Towson University, Forensic Chemistry Institute (Commerce, Justice and Science) |
$141,000 |
Rep. John Sarbanes -MD) |
Maryland | Towson University Department of Chemistry |
|
|
2008 |
Eastern Shores of Maryland Education Consortium, to expand the dropout prevention program to utilize a web-based curriculum (Commerce, Justice and Science) |
$223,250 |
Sen. Barbara Mikulski -MD) |
Centerville, Maryland | Eastern Shore of Maryland Educational Consortium |
|
|
2009 |
Harford County for technology upgrades (Commerce, Justice and Science) |
$365,000 |
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett  -MD)Rep. Wayne Gilchrest -MD)Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger -MD)...more |
Harford County, Maryland | Harford County, Md. |
|
|
2010 |
Counter-Terrorism Intelligence Initiative (Commerce, Justice and Science) |
$200,000 | No additional sponsors indicated | Rockville, Maryland | Montgomery County (Md.) Department of Police |
|
|
2008 |
City of Baltimore, to sustain and institutionalize the Felony Drug Initiative pilot project (Commerce, Justice and Science) |
$446,500 |
Rep. Elijah Cummings -MD) |
Baltimore, Maryland | City of Baltimore |
|
|
2009 |
Bio Agent Early Warning Detector (Defense) |
$2,000,000 |
Rep. Steny Hoyer -MD) |
Crofton, Maryland | |
|
|
2008 |
Antibody-based Therapeutic against Smallpox (Defense) |
$1,000,000 |
Rep. Chris Van Hollen -MD) Sen. Barbara Mikulski -MD) |
Unknown Location | |
|
|
2009 |
Biodefense Tech Transfer Initiative (BTTI) (only for militarily relevant technology) (Defense) |
$1,500,000 |
Sen. Barbara Mikulski -MD) |
Unknown Location | |
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Information provided by Taxpayers for Common Sense ( http://www.taxpayer.net/ )
