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Fiscal Year(s)

View earmark details Sen. John Thune (-South Dakota) - Earmarks Requested
In Office
Alternate Name: John Randolph Thune
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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                     17 $13,304,328
With Other Members          137 $340,269,050
All Congressional                154 $353,573,378
All Sponsored Earmarks      162* $526,411,378*
Earmark Details Year

(desc)

Description (Bill) Amount Additional Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
View earmark details 2010 Biomass Crop Production, Brookings, SD
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
$1,250,000 Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (-SD)
Sen. Tim Johnson (-SD)
Brookings, South Dakota
View earmark details 2009 Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Public Safety
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
$250,000 Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (-SD) Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Public Safety
View earmark details 2009 Watertown and Vicinity, SD
(Energy and Water)
$311,000 Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (-SD)
Sen. Tim Johnson (-SD)
South Dakota
View earmark details 2009 Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Lower Brule Sioux
(Energy and Water)
$2,000,000 Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (-SD)
Sen. Tim Johnson (-SD)
South Dakota Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
View earmark details 2009 Volunteers of America - Dakotas, Sioux Falls, SD for construction of a new facility to house a residential substance treatment center for women and their children and for other services
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
$475,000 No additional sponsors indicated Sioux Falls, South Dakota
View earmark details 2009 Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Lower Brule Sioux
(Energy and Water)
$2,871,000 Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (-SD)
Sen. Tim Johnson (-SD)
South Dakota Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
View earmark details 2009 Sun Grant Initiative (SD)
(Energy and Water)
$3,806,000 Sen. Tim Johnson (-SD) South Dakota
View earmark details 2009 Oglala Sioux Tribe for law enforcement, court operations, prosecutors, public defenders office, and detention equipment and operations on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
$750,000 Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (-SD)
Sen. Tim Johnson (-SD)
Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota Oglala Sioux Tribe
View earmark details 2009 USD Catalysis Group for Alternative Energy (DE)
(Energy and Water)
$1,046,650 Sen. Tim Johnson (-SD) Delaware
View earmark details 2009 Water Systems Council WellCare
(Interior)
$700,000 alert Rep. Tom Allen (-ME)
Rep. Mike Arcuri (-NY)
Rep. Leonard Boswell (-IA)
...more
Various Locations Water Systems Council
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