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Fiscal Year(s)

View earmark details Earmark Spending in South Dakota

* 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 288 $447,265,138
All earmarks 317* $756,010,138*
Earmark Details Year

(desc)

Description (Bill) Amount Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
View earmark details 2009 University of South Dakota, Vermilion, SD, for graduate programs on the digital preservation of recorded oral histories
(Labor-HHS-Education)
$409,000 Sen. Tim Johnson (-SD) Vermilion, South Dakota University of South Dakota
View earmark details 2009 Accelerated Materials Development and Characterization
(Defense)
$2,500,000 Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (-SD)
Sen. Tim Johnson (-SD)
Brookings, South Dakota
View earmark details 2009 Aircraft Ready Shelters/AMU
(Military Construction)
$4,500,000 Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (-SD)
Sen. John Thune (-SD)
Sen. Tim Johnson (-SD)
...more
Joe Foss Field, South Dakota
View earmark details 2009 Alternative Power Technology for Missile Defense
(Defense)
$4,000,000 Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (-SD)
Sen. John Thune (-SD)
Sen. Tim Johnson (-SD)
...more
Brookings, South Dakota
View earmark details 2009 Armed Forces Reserve Center
(Military Construction)
$29,000,000 President *
Sen. John Thune (-SD)
Sen. Tim Johnson (-SD)
Rapid City, South Dakota
View earmark details 2009 Barracks/Dining/Admin and Parking Complex Ph 1
(Military Construction)
$14,463,000 Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (-SD)
Sen. John Thune (-SD)
Sen. Tim Johnson (-SD)
...more
Rapid City, South Dakota
View earmark details 2009 Base Entry and Perimeter Gates
(Military Construction)
$11,000,000 Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (-SD)
Sen. Tim Johnson (-SD)
Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota
View earmark details 2009 Behavior and Neuroscience, Fuctional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Project
(Defense)
$800,000 Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (-SD) Vermillion, South Dakota
View earmark details 2009 Big Bend Dam, Lake Sharpe
(Energy and Water)
$6,423,000 No sponsor indicated South Dakota
View earmark details 2009 Big Sioux River
(Energy and Water)
$2,871,000 Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (-SD)
Sen. John Thune (-SD)
Sen. Tim Johnson (-SD)
...more
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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