Weekly Updates

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

  • 56 new people
  • 202 new organizations
  • 282 job history records for people in our database
  • 58 education records for people in our database
  • 84 contact addresses, emails and URLs (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.)
  • 2 new people through the revolving door
  • 61 new policy reports
  • 29 new trips to our privately funded travel database
  • 81 new personal financial disclosures
  • 48184 new tweets
  • 18279 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 Sen. Bob Menéndez (-New Jersey) - Earmarks Requested
In Office
Alternate Name: Robert Menéndez

 
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                     2 $1,000,000
With Other Members          646 $771,319,380
All Congressional                648 $772,319,380
All Sponsored Earmarks      673* $1,364,194,375*
Earmark Details Year Description (Bill) Amount

(asc)

Additional Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
View earmark details 2008 Stabilization/Repair of the Ship Repair Facility at MOTBY
(Defense)
$8,000,000 Rep. Albio Sires (-NJ)
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (-NJ)
New Jersey
View earmark details 2009 Main Gate Security Improvements
(Military Construction)
$8,160,000 Sen. Frank Lautenberg (-NJ)
Rep. Chris Smith (-NJ)
Earle NWS, New Jersey
View earmark details 2009 Operations and Training Facility
(Military Construction)
$8,400,000 Rep. Frank LoBiondo (-NJ)
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (-NJ)
Atlantic City IAP, New Jersey
View earmark details 2010 Base Civil Engineering Complex
(Military Construction)
$9,700,000 Rep. John Adler (-NJ)
Rep. Frank LoBiondo (-NJ)
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (-NJ)
...more
McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey
View earmark details 2008 Air Support Operations Squadron (ASOS), 177th Fighter Wing, Egg Harbor Township
(Military Construction)
$9,800,000 Rep. Frank LoBiondo (-NJ)
Rep. Steve Rothman (-NJ)
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (-NJ)
...more
Atlantic City, New Jersey
View earmark details 2009 Ballistic Evaluation Facility Ph 1
(Military Construction)
$9,900,000 Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (-NJ)
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (-NJ)
Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey
View earmark details 2008 Armament Integration Facility
(Military Construction)
$9,900,000 Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (-NJ)
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (-NJ)
Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey
View earmark details 2009 Raritan River Basin, Green Brook Sub-Basin, NJ
(Energy and Water)
$10,000,000 President *
Rep. Mike Ferguson (-NJ)
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (-NJ)
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (-NJ)
...more
New Jersey
View earmark details 2008 Peer Reviewed Ovarian Cancer Research Program
(Defense)
$10,000,000 alert Sen. Daniel Akaka (-HI)
Sen. Evan Bayh (-IN)
Sen. Joe Biden (-DE)
...more
Unknown Location
View earmark details 2008 Raritan River Basin, Green Brook Sub-Basin
(Energy and Water)
$10,001,000 President *
Rep. Mike Ferguson (-NJ)
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (-NJ)
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (-NJ)
...more
New Jersey
694 results

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