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Fiscal Year(s)

View earmark details Former Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-Texas, 27th) - Earmarks Requested

Defeated • Alternate Name: Solomon Porfirio Ortiz Sr.
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 28 Cost $55,325,514
With Other Members          Number 41 Cost $97,072,500
All Congressional                Number 69 Cost $152,398,014
All Sponsored Earmarks      Number 82* Cost $352,869,014*
Earmark Details Year Description (Bill)

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Amount Additional Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Brownsville Campus - University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health, Brownsville, TX for studies regarding the health of the Hispanic population in the Rio Grande Valley
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $238,000 Sponsors Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) Locations Brownsville, Texas Recipients University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Brownsville Urban System City Wide Transit Improvement
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $237,500 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Brownsville, Texas Recipients Brownsville (Texas) Urban System
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Buster/ Blacklight UAV Development
(Defense)
Amount $800,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Charlie Gonzalez (D-TX)
Former Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D-TX)
Locations Texas Recipients Mission Technologies Inc.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Cameron County, TX Interoperable Communications
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $47,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX)
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)
Locations Cameron, Texas Recipients Cameron County, Texas
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description City of Port Aransas to preserve endangered wetlands and help stop severe erosion in Port Aransas and along the Corpus Christi Ship Channel
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $300,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) Locations Port Aransas, Texas Recipients City of Port Aransas, Texas
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description City of Robstown, TX
(Homeland Security)
Amount $500,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Robstown, Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Commercial Technologies for Maintenance Activities
(Defense)
Amount $1,600,000 alert Sponsors Former Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT)
Former Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL)
Former Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC)
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Locations Ann Arbor, Michigan Recipients National Center for Manufacturing Sciences
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Corpus Christi Independent School District, Corpus Christi, TX for its South Texas School Literacy Project
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $200,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Corpus Christi, Texas Recipients Corpus Christi (Texas) Independent School District
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Corpus Christi Regional Intermodal Transit Facility, Robstown, TX
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $500,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) Locations Corpus Christi, Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Corpus Christi RTA Bus & Bus Facilities
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $490,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) Locations Corpus Christi, Texas Recipients

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