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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 New Satellite and Computer-Based Technology for Agriculture, MS
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $654,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Locations Mississippi Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description City of Greenville
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $658,000 Sponsors Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) Locations Greenville, Mississippi Recipients City of Greenville, Miss.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Audubon Mississippi for the Pascagoula River Audubon Center, construction of nature-based education facility that contributes to economic and community recovery of Gulf Coast
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $686,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) Locations Moss Point, Mississippi Recipients National Audubon Society Inc.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Tallahatchie County Board of Supervisors, for the restoration of the Tallahatchie County Courthouse
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $686,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) Locations Summer, Mississippi Recipients Tallahatchie County, Miss.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description NASA Stennis Space Center to fund Healthy Forest Restoration Act
(Interior)
Amount $689,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) Locations Mississippi Recipients John C. Stennis Space Center
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description New Satellite and Computer-Based Technology for Agriculture
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $697,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) Locations Mississippi Recipients Mississippi State University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Itawamba Community College, Fulton, MS for consolidation of the Tupelo and Fulton Nursing School Programs in order to provide additional nursing specialists to a five-county region
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $700,000 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 2010 Description Mississippi Primary Health Care Association, Jackson, MS, for facilities and equipment
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $700,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) Locations Jackson, Mississippi Recipients Community Health Center Association of Mississippi
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Jackson County, MS, for Phase I of construction and renovation Walter Anderson Arts Pavilion
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $700,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Locations Jackson County, Mississippi Recipients Jackson County, Miss.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Local Initiative Support Corporation, provide community law enforcement training
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $705,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) Locations Jackson, Mississippi Recipients Local Initiatives Support Corp.

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