Weekly Updates

LegiStorm is constantly adding new information on the people, places and reports in our database. In the past week, LegiStorm added:

  • 53 new people
  • 160 new organizations
  • 350 job history records for people in our database
  • 66 education records for people in our database
  • 96 contact addresses, emails and URLs (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.)
  • 5 new people through the revolving door
  • 60 new policy reports
  • 28 new trips to our privately funded travel database
  • 97 new personal financial disclosures
  • 49605 new tweets
  • 7567 new press releases
 LegiStorm Blog
 SOCIAL MEDIA

 DEVBLOG
 IN THE NEWS
Few rules when foreign governments fund Congressional travel

by FOX 13 / WTVT-TV on 05/10/2013

Lawmakers' families bring home big perks

by Iowa Watchdog on 05/08/2013

Paying the Bills | Hill Navigator

by Roll Call on 05/07/2013

LegiStorm: Most new lawmakers want D.C. experience

by Planet Washington on 04/29/2013

Where are this year's earmarks
Fiscal Year(s)

View earmark details Rep. Charlie Dent (-Pennsylvania, 15th) - Earmarks Requested
In Office
Alternate Name: Charles W. Dent

 
AllSoloWith 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                     48 $19,400,604
With Other Members          53 $53,817,354
All Congressional                101 $73,217,958
All Sponsored Earmarks      101* $73,217,958*
Earmark Details Year Description (Bill)

(asc)

Amount Additional Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
View earmark details 2009 Lower Milford Township in Lehigh County for wastewater treatment plant construction project
(Interior)
$200,000 Sen. Arlen Specter (-PA) Pennsylvania Township of Lower Milford, Pa.
View earmark details 2010 Lehigh County Authority for the Vera Cruz wastewater collection system
(Interior)
$500,000 No additional sponsors indicated Lehigh County, Pennsylvania Lehigh County, Pa.
View earmark details 2008 Payne Gallery, Moravian College
(Interior)
$148,000 No additional sponsors indicated Pennsylvania Moravian College
View earmark details 2010 Saylor Cement Kilns historic preservation
(Interior)
$200,000 No additional sponsors indicated Allentown, Pennsylvania Lehigh County, Pa.
View earmark details 2008 Highlands Conservation Act
(Interior)
$1,723,000 Rep. Rosa DeLauro (-CT)
Rep. Eliot Lance Engel (-NY)
Rep. Scott Garrett (-NJ)
...more
New Jersey; New York; Pennsylvania
View earmark details 2009 State Theatre Historic Facade
(Interior)
$175,000 No additional sponsors indicated Pennsylvania State Theatre (State College, Pa.)
View earmark details 2008 DeSales University, for the Digital Campus Initiative, including purchase of equipment
(Labor-HHS-Education)
$478,000 No additional sponsors indicated Center Valley, Pennsylvania DeSales University
View earmark details 2008 Civic Education Program (Center for Civic Education and National Council on Economic Education) and a comprehensive program between the Center for Civic Education, Indiana University and NCSL to improve public education of the congress and state legislatures.
(Labor-HHS-Education)
$31,917,000 alert Rep. Neil Abercrombie (-HI)
Rep. Artur Genestre Davis (-AL)
Rep. Geoff Davis (-KY)
...more
Unknown Location Council for Economic Education; National Conference of State Legislatures; Indiana University System
View earmark details 2008 Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association, for curriculum development
(Labor-HHS-Education)
$143,000 No additional sponsors indicated Kempton, Pennsylvania
View earmark details 2008 Muhlenberg College, education and outreach services to support undergraduate students with disabilities
(Labor-HHS-Education)
$85,000 Sen. Bob Casey (-PA)
Sen. Arlen Specter (-PA)
Allentown, Pennsylvania Muhlenberg College
106 results

Information provided by Taxpayers for Common Sense ( http://www.taxpayer.net/ )