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Fiscal Year(s)

View earmark details Rep. Pete Sessions (-Texas, 32nd) - Earmarks Requested
In Office
Alternate Name: Peter Anderson Sessions

 
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                     10 $8,152,500
With Other Members          19 $41,690,000
All Congressional                29 $49,842,500
All Sponsored Earmarks      30* $134,367,500*
Earmark Details Year Description (Bill)

(desc)

Amount Additional Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
View earmark details 2009 Irving Boulevard Corridor Enhancement Project, Irving, TX
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
$380,000 No additional sponsors indicated Irving, Texas
View earmark details 2008 Dallas Woodall Rodgers Freeway Deck Plaza
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
$98,000 No additional sponsors indicated Texas
View earmark details 2010 El Dorado and Bromwich Sidewalk Improvements, CA
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
$550,000 No additional sponsors indicated California
View earmark details 2008 NW/SE LRT MOS
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
$84,525,000 President *
Rep. Joe Barton (-TX)
Rep. Ralph Hall (-TX)
Rep. Sam Johnson (-TX)
...more
Dallas, Texas
View earmark details 2009 University of Texas System, Dallas, TX for the purchase of equipment for the Brain Health and Repair project
(Labor-HHS-Education)
$381,000 No additional sponsors indicated Dallas, Texas University of Texas System
View earmark details 2009 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX for the purchase of equipment
(Labor-HHS-Education)
$381,000 Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (-TX) Dallas, Texas Southern Methodist University
View earmark details 2008 Southern Methodist University for facilities and equipment at the Southwestern Consortium for Anti-Infectives and Virological Research
(Labor-HHS-Education)
$310,000 Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (-TX) Dallas, Texas Southern Methodist University
View earmark details 2008 American Optometric Association, for the InfantSee program
(Labor-HHS-Education)
$430,000 Sen. Robert Byrd (-WV) Alexandria, Virginia American Optometric Association
View earmark details 2008 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX for purchase of equipment
(Labor-HHS-Education)
$192,000 No additional sponsors indicated Dallas, Texas University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
View earmark details 2008 Upper Trinity River Basin
(Energy and Water)
$1,333,000 Rep. Michael Burgess (-TX)
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (-TX)
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (-TX)
...more
Texas
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