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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 Del Mar College, for curriculum development and the purchase of equipment, technology, and training materials for instruction in closed captioning
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $381,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Corpus Christi, Texas Recipients Del Mar College (Corpus Christi, Texas)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Valley Baptist Health System, for the Hispanic Stroke Care Center of Excellence for equipment.
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $167,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX)
Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
Locations Harlingen, Texas Recipients Valley Baptist Health System (Texas)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description University of Texas, Brownsville, TX for studies regarding the health of the Hispanic population in the Rio Grande Valley
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $383,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Brownsville, Texas Recipients University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Texas A&M University - Kingsville, for facilities and equipment for a research facility
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $230,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Kingsville, Texas Recipients Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Reading is Fundamental authorized under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $24,803,000 Sponsors President *
Former Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA)
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
Former Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-MN)
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Locations Various Locations Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description University of Texas at Brownsville, Brownsville, TX for facilities and equipment
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $500,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Brownsville, Texas Recipients
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 2010 Description Tactical Equipment Maintenance Facility
(Military Construction)
Amount $10,200,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Robstown, Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Rotoblade Processing Facility
(Military Construction)
Amount $11,200,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Corpus Christi, Texas Recipients

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