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Fiscal Year(s)

View earmark details Former Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) - Earmarks Requested

Retired • Alternate Name: Earl Benjamin Nelson
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 56 Cost $62,249,440
With Other Members          Number 113 Cost $182,220,050
All Congressional                Number 169 Cost $244,469,490
All Sponsored Earmarks      Number 174* Cost $294,574,490*
Earmark Details Year

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Description (Bill) Amount Additional Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Rainwater Basin Wetlands Management District
(Interior)
Amount $500,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Nebraska Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Section 117--Antelope Creek, Lincoln, NE
(Energy and Water)
Amount $0 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Lincoln, Nebraska Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Section 122--Sand Creek, Nebraska
(Energy and Water)
Amount $0 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Sand Creek, Nebraska Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Switchgrass Biofuel Research: Carbon Sequestration and Life Cycle Analysis
(Energy and Water)
Amount $500,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) Locations Nebraska Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Systems Biology Research Facility, Lincoln, NE
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $3,760,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) Locations Lincoln, Nebraska Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Great Plain Riparian Initiative, National Wild Turkey Federation, NE
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $500,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Edgefield, South Carolina Recipients National Wild Turkey Federation
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Panhandle Area Development District, Gering, NE, for remodel of an existing building into a physical and virtual small business incubator to serve the Panhandle of Nebraska
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $0 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Gering, Nebraska Recipients Panhandle Area (Neb.) Development District

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