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Fiscal Year(s)

View earmark details Earmark Spending in Florida

* 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. 1331 Total Amount $1,488,644,346
All earmarks No. 1507* Total Amount $4,879,557,707*
Earmark Details Year

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Description (Bill) Amount Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Covenant House Florida, for a program for pregnant and parenting teens and young adults
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $192,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Ron Klein (D-FL) Locations Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Recipients Covenant House Florida
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Critical Language Instruction for Military Personnel, Education, Training and Distance Learning
(Defense)
Amount $3,000,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Adam Putnam (R-FL) Locations Tampa, Florida Recipients University of South Florida
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description CSTARS (Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing)
(Defense)
Amount $2,000,000 Sponsors Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
Former Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL)
Former Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL)
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Locations Coral Gables, Florida Recipients University of Miami
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Develop & Test Environmentally Safe Biocides for Bio-Defense
(Defense)
Amount $500,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-FL) Locations Fort Myers, Florida Recipients Florida Gulf Coast University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Dining Facility
(Military Construction)
Amount $1,500,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) Locations Camp Rudder, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Displacing Imported Petroleum with Renewables
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $149,000 Sponsors Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL)
Former Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL)
Former Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL)
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Locations Florida Recipients University of Florida (Gainesville)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Dixie County, Cross City, FL for facilities and equipment for the primary care facility
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $72,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Allen Boyd (D-FL) Locations Cross City, Florida Recipients Cross City, Fla.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Downtown Orlando East-West Circulator System
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $686,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL)
Former Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL)
Former Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL)
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Locations Orlando, Florida Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Downtown Transit Circulator
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $656,600 Sponsors Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)
Former Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL)
Former Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL)
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Locations Fort Lauderdale, Florida Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Downtown Transit Circulator Streetscapes
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $245,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Ron Klein (D-FL) Locations Broward, Florida Recipients

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