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Where are this year's earmarks
Fiscal Year(s)

View earmark details Earmark Spending in Mississippi

* 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. 762 Total Amount $2,110,625,418
All earmarks No. 816* Total Amount $2,805,971,802*
Earmark Details Year Description (Bill) Amount

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Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Center for Bottomlands Hardwood Research
(Interior)
Amount $800,000 Sponsors President *
Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Locations Mississippi Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Yazoo Basin, Tributaries, MS
(Energy and Water)
Amount $797,004 Sponsors President *
Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Locations Mississippi Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Genomics for Southern Crop Stress and Disease
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $797,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Locations Mississippi Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Genomics for Southern Crop Stress and Disease, MS
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $797,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS)
Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
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Locations Mississippi Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Yazoo Basin, Tributaries, MS
(Energy and Water)
Amount $790,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Locations Mississippi Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description John C. Stennis Institute for Capacity Development Initiative
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $784,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) Locations Mississippi Recipients John C. Stennis Institute of Government
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Yazoo Basin, Greenwood, MS
(Energy and Water)
Amount $780,000 Sponsors President (solo) * Locations Greenwood, Mississippi Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Appalachian Horticulture Research (U of TN/TN State)
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $779,000 Sponsors Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
Former Rep. John Duncan (R-TN)
Former Rep. Zach Wamp (R-TN)
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Locations Poplarville, Mississippi Recipients Tennessee State University; University of Tennessee Knoxville
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Itawamba Community College, Fulton, MS for facilities and equipment
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $771,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Travis Childers (D-MS)
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Locations Fulton, Mississippi Recipients Itawamba Community College (Miss.)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Sea Grant Law Center to integrate biotechnology and undersea technology development with cutting edge research for the advancement of marine science
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $750,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Locations Oxford, Mississippi Recipients National Sea Grant Law Center

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