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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

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Description (Bill) Amount Additional Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Driscoll Children's Hospital, for facilities and equipment
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $119,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX)
Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
Locations Corpus Christi, Texas Recipients Driscoll Children's Hospital (Corpus Christi, Texas)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Dynamic Component Rebuild Facility
(Military Construction)
Amount $39,000,000 Sponsors President *
Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
Locations Corpus Christi, Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Efficient Irrigation
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $1,160,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX)
Former Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX)
Former Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX)
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Locations Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description El Paso/Brownsville Water and Wastewater Infrastructure
(Interior)
Amount $2,500,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX)
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)
Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
...more
Locations Texas Recipients City of El Paso, Texas; City of Brownsville, Texas
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Fitness Center
(Military Construction)
Amount $11,580,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Kingsville, Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
(Energy and Water)
Amount $29,586,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX)
Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
Former Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX)
...more
Locations Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description International Arid Lands Consortium, AZ
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $401,000 Sponsors Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ)
Former Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD)
Former Rep. Tim Johnson (R-IL)
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Locations Arizona Recipients International Arid Lands Consortium
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Interstate 69, TX
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $617,500 Sponsors Former Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX)
Former Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX)
Former Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX)
...more
Locations Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge
(Interior)
Amount $500,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX)
Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
Locations Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description North Brownsville Industrial Park, TX
(Financial Services)
Amount $196,514 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Texas Recipients

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