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View earmark details Former Rep. Mel Watt (D-North Carolina, 12th) - Earmarks Requested

Resigned • Alternate Name: Melvin Luther Watt
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 15 Cost $7,090,000
With Other Members          Number 54 Cost $79,806,500
All Congressional                Number 69 Cost $86,896,500
All Sponsored Earmarks      Number 69* Cost $86,896,500*
Earmark Details Year Description (Bill)

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Amount Additional Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC for facilities and equipment
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $190,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) Locations Winston-Salem, North Carolina Recipients Winston-Salem State University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Winston-Salem Stale University, Winston-Salem, NC, for blood pressure and obesity screening programs, including training of healthcare professionals
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $100,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) Locations Winston-Salem, North Carolina Recipients Winston-Salem State University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description University of North Carolina, with East Carolina University, for the program in Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease.
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $560,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) Locations Chapel Hill, North Carolina Recipients East Carolina University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description University of North Carolina at Greensboro, for a teletherapy program to address the shortage of speech language pathologists
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $67,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC)
Former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC)
Locations Greensboro, North Carolina Recipients University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Thurgood Marshall College Fund Minority NASA Science Initiative
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $940,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD)
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)
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Locations Unknown Location Recipients Thurgood Marshall College Fund Inc.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Textile Research Programs
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $965,000 Sponsors Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL)
Former Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC)
Former Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC)
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Locations Raleigh, North Carolina Recipients Textile/Clothing Technology Corp.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Textile Research
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $1,800,000 Sponsors Former Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC)
Former Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC)
Former Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-NC)
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Locations Raleigh, North Carolina Recipients National Textile Center
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Teach for America as authorized under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $14,895,000 alert Sponsors Former Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI)
Former Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY)
Former Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-MO)
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Locations New York, New York Recipients Teach for America
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Rowan County Airport, land acquisition (runway protection zone)
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $588,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC)
Former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC)
Locations North Carolina Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Renewable Energy Center
(Energy and Water)
Amount $750,000 Sponsors Former Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC)
Former Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC)
Locations North Carolina Recipients

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