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Fiscal Year(s)

View earmark details Earmark Spending in Alabama

* Earmarks requested by the president are not included in the member and state rankings to better reflect political power. This follows the methodology used by Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Fiscal Year(s) 2008-2010 No Total Amount
Congressional earmarks No. 728 Total Amount $1,040,840,677
All earmarks No. 761* Total Amount $1,538,956,677*
Earmark Details Year

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Description (Bill) Amount Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description City of Troy, for mobile data terminals
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $211,500 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Locations Troy, Alabama Recipients City of Troy, Ala.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description City of Tuscaloosa Downtown Revitalization Project--Twenty First Avenue Phase I and University Boulevard Phase III
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $4,116,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Locations Tuscaloosa, Alabama Recipients City of Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Coastal and Inland Hurricane Monitoring and Protection Program, to acquire the ability to predict the intensity and potential damage of hurricanes affecting the Gulf Coast, University of South Alabama
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $611,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)
Locations Mobile, Alabama Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Coastal Weather for Catastrophic Events, to provide coastal Alabama appropriate weather monitoring equipment to measure wind gusts, water surge and rain fall levels during a catastrophic event such as hurricanes, Univeristy of South Alabama
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $258,500 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Locations Mobile, Alabama Recipients University of South Alabama
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Collaborative R&D Initiative for the Gulf of Mexico, will allow for collaboration between federal agencies in Alabama and research universities to more effectively complete NOAA missions, Von Braun Center for Science and Innovation
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $752,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Locations Huntsville, Alabama Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Component Rebuild Shop
(Military Construction)
Amount $800,000 Sponsors Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) Locations Anniston Army Depot, Alabama Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Conservation Education
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $215,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Locations Alabama Recipients Alabama Wildlife Federation
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Construct Von Braun Complex
(Military Construction)
Amount $73,600,000 Sponsors President (solo) * Locations Redstone Arsenal, Alabama Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Cooperative Institute for Remote Sensing Application, for the purpose of advancing knowledge and understanding of the environment using information technologies and remote sensing systems, University of Alabama at Huntsville
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $1,034,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Locations Huntsville, Alabama Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Dallas Branch, Pinhook Creek
(Energy and Water)
Amount $749,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Bud Cramer (D-AL) Locations Alabama Recipients

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