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Airdropped Earmarks

The term 'airdropped' is used to describe an earmark that is not included in the original legislation as approved by either the House or Senate but is later mysteriously inserted into the conference committee reports, which combine both chambers' versions of the bill.

Earmark Details	Year	Description (Bill) (asc)	Amount	Sponsors	Locations	Receiving Organization
	2009	101st Airborne Injury Prevention and Performance Enhancement Research Initiative (Defense)	$2,000,000	Sen. Bob Corker (-TN) Sen. Lamar Alexander (-TN)	Kentucky
	2009	11th Air Force Consolidated Command Center (Defense)	$10,000,000	Sen. Ted Stevens (-AK)	Alaska
	2009	11th Air Force Critical Communications Infrastructure (Defense)	$3,200,000	Sen. Ted Stevens (-AK)	Alaska
	2009	11th Street Revitalization Project (Transportation and Housing & Urban Development)	$380,000	Sen. George Voinovich (-OH) Rep. Ralph Regula (-OH)	Canton, Ohio
	2009	129th Air Rescue Wing Security Towers (Defense)	$200,000	Rep. Anna Eshoo (-CA)	Moffett Federal Airfield, California
	2009	146th Street Corridor Extension from the Hamilton County Line to I-65 (Transportation and Housing & Urban Development)	$855,000	Sen. Richard Lugar (-IN) Rep. Steve Buyer (-IN)	Boone County, Indiana
	2008	148th FW Base Wing Storage Facility (Military Construction)	$1,500,000	Rep. James Oberstar (-MN) Sen. Norm Coleman (-MN) Sen. Amy Klobuchar (-MN) ...more	Duluth, Minnesota
	2009	159th and US 69 Interchange Improvements (Transportation and Housing & Urban Development)	$950,000	Sen. Pat Roberts (-KS) Sen. Sam Brownback (-KS)	Overland Park, Kansas
	2009	17-Mile Road Reconstruction (Transportation and Housing & Urban Development)	$475,000	Sen. Michael Enzi (-WY)	Wind River Indian Reservation, Wyoming
	2009	180 Turning Lives Around, for the design and construction of a new domestic violence shelter (Transportation and Housing & Urban Development)	$950,000	Sen. Frank Lautenberg (-NJ) Rep. Frank Pallone Jr (-NJ) Rep. Rush Holt (-NJ) ...more	Hazlet, New Jersey
	2009	180 Turning Lives Around, Inc., for its child and teen violence reduction and treatment project (Labor-HHS-Education)	$238,000	Rep. Frank Pallone Jr (-NJ)	Hazlet, New Jersey
	2009	1925 Coach Stop (Interior)	$300,000	Sen. Saxby Chambliss (-GA)	Savannah, Georgia
	2009	19th Avenue North Extension Project (Transportation and Housing & Urban Development)	$475,000	Rep. Bruce Braley (-IA)	Clinton, Iowa
	2009	19th Street Extension - Redmond to Deschutes Junction (Transportation and Housing & Urban Development)	$570,000	Rep. Greg Walden (-OR)	Bend, Oregon
	2008	1st Air Force Forces Facility Headquarters (Military Construction)	$8,400,000	Rep. Allen Boyd (-FL)	Tyndall AFB, Florida
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