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Fiscal Year(s)

View earmark details Earmark Spending in Texas

* 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. 1401 Total Amount $1,907,539,730
All earmarks No. 1689* Total Amount $6,315,890,955*
Earmark Details Year Description (Bill)

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Amount Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Collaborative Fingerprint & Palmprint Identification
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $1,000,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) Locations Jasper, Texas Recipients Deep East Texas Council of Governments
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Law Enforcement Technology and Equipment
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $100,000 Sponsors Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) Locations Jourdanton, Texas Recipients Dilley (Texas) Police Department; Pearsall (Texas) Police Department; Ropesville (Texas) Police Department; Atascosa County, Texas
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description South Texas Forensics Laboratory
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $250,000 Sponsors Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) Locations Laredo, Texas Recipients Webb County (Texas) Sheriff's Office
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Terrorist Interdiction Law Enforcement Training Center
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $400,000 Sponsors Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) Locations Laredo, Texas Recipients Laredo (Texas) Community College
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Lockhart Police Department Technology
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $125,000 Sponsors Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) Locations Lockhart, Texas Recipients City of Lockhart, Texas
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Engineering support for extended human and robotic space flight missions-Texas Tech University
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $1,000,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX)
Former Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-TX)
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)
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Locations Lubbock, Texas Recipients Texas Tech University (Lubbock)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description McAllen Manufacturing Research and Education Park
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $300,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX) Locations McAllen, Texas Recipients McAllen (Texas) Economic Development Corp.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description City of McGregor Law Enforcement Technology
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $100,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX) Locations McGregor, Texas Recipients McGregor (Texas) Police Department
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Emergency Communications Equipment, Midland, Texas
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $325,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX) Locations Midland, Texas Recipients City of Midland, Texas
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Public Safety Training Initiative
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $400,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) Locations Nacogdoches, Texas Recipients City of Nacogdoches, Texas

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