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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

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Description (Bill) Amount Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Parenting education programs
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $350,000 Sponsors Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) Locations Austin, Texas Recipients AVANCE Inc.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Accessible fleet replacement
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $0 Sponsors Rep. John Carter (R-TX) Locations Austin, Texas Recipients Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Austin, Texas)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Educational programming at the Sam Rayburn Library and Museum
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $250,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX) Locations Austin, Texas Recipients University of Texas at Austin Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description CID Equipment
(Defense)
Amount $449,000 Sponsors Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) Locations Austin, Texas Recipients Texas Army National Guard
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Jjb training initiative
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $300,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) Locations Austin, Texas Recipients Digital Workforce Academy
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Field deployable hologram production system
(Defense)
Amount $3,840,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX)
Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX)
Locations Austin, Texas Recipients Zebra Imaging Inc.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Field maintenance shop, joint
(Military Construction)
Amount $5,700,000 Sponsors President *
Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
Locations Austin, Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description High efficiency solar energy generation and storage
(Defense)
Amount $800,000 Sponsors Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) Locations Austin, Texas Recipients University of Houston
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Facilities and equipment
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $100,000 Sponsors Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) Locations Austin, Texas Recipients Huston-Tillotson University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Math and science education initiative
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $350,000 Sponsors Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) Locations Austin, Texas Recipients Huston-Tillotson University

Information provided by Taxpayers for Common Sense ( http://www.taxpayer.net/ )