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

View earmark details Earmark Spending for Regional Projects

* 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. 15 Total Amount $41,955,500
All earmarks No. 22* Total Amount $92,028,500*
Earmark Details Year Description (Bill)

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Amount Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Pilot program to demonstrate the use of new technologies that increase the rate of growth of re-forested hardwood trees on private non-industrial forests lands, enrolling lands on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico that were damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $794,000 Sponsors No sponsor indicated Locations Regional Recipients Farm Service Agency
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description For the control of Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS) in fish in the Great Lakes States
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $0 Sponsors No sponsor indicated Locations Regional Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Gulf of Mexico Regional Collaborative
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $4,880,500 Sponsors No sponsor indicated Locations Regional Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Pacific Island Compact
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $3,431,000 Sponsors No sponsor indicated Locations Regional Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Midwest Counter-Drug Training Center
(Defense)
Amount $5,000,000 Sponsors Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Former Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Locations Regional Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Chesapeake Bay Program
(Interior)
Amount $30,516,000 Sponsors President *
Former Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE)
Former Rep. Jo Ann Davis (R-VA)
Former Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA)
...more
Locations Regional Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Circle of Flight, Conservation Program
(Interior)
Amount $591,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI)
Former Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-MN)
Former Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI)
...more
Locations Regional Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Civil War Battlefield Preservation Grants
(Interior)
Amount $2,953,000 Sponsors President (solo) * Locations Regional Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Coral reef initiative
(Interior)
Amount $979,000 Sponsors No sponsor indicated Locations Regional Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Four Atoll Healthcare
(Interior)
Amount $984,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI)
Former Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
Former Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM)
...more
Locations Regional Recipients

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