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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

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Description (Bill) Amount Additional Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description North Carolina Statewide Bus and Bus Facilities
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $1,225,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC)
Former Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC)
Former Rep. David Price (D-NC)
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Locations North Carolina Recipients State of North Carolina
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Private crossing safety initiative
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $275,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations North Carolina Recipients
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 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 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 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 North Carolina State Highway Patrol Law Enforcement Technology
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $188,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations North Carolina Recipients State of North Carolina
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University, for a project to reduce suspension rates of students in the Guilford County School System
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $383,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC)
Former Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC)
Former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC)
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Locations Greensboro, North Carolina Recipients North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description National Textile Center (NTC): Funding to continue and enhance research currently conducted at a multi-university consortium that links the textile and fiber-based materials industry sector to leading research and education programs
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $4,700,000 alert Sponsors Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL)
Former Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC)
Former Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC)
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Locations California; Georgia; Massachusetts; North Carolina; New York; Pennsylvania; South Carolina Recipients National Textile Center
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Livingstone College Criminal Justice Program
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $329,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) Locations Livingstone College, North Carolina Recipients Livingstone College

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