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Where are this year's earmarks
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View earmark details 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

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Description (Bill) Amount Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Historic Chaffee Art Center
(Interior)
Amount $84,000 Sponsors Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) Locations Vermont Recipients Chaffee Art Center (Rutland, Vt.)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description SouthCoast Connected, New Bedford, MA, for expansion of programs designed to reduce the teen dropout rate
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $143,000 Sponsors Former Sen. John Kerry (D-MA)
Former Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
Locations New Bedford, Massachusetts Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description St. John the Baptist Urban Flood Control, LA
(Energy and Water)
Amount $119,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) Locations Louisiana Recipients St. John the Baptist Parish, La.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Santa Clara Valley Water District, San Jose, CA
(Homeland Security)
Amount $790,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA) Locations San Jose, California Recipients Santa Clara Valley (Calif.) Water District
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Sonoita Station, Arizona - border security
(Homeland Security)
Amount $27,000,000 Sponsors President (solo) Locations Sonoita, Arizona Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description City of Bay City NuBLAC Rehab Center
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $500,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) Locations Bay City, Texas Recipients Nu Beginnings Labor Action Committee Inc.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description AFIP/Joint Pathology Center Records Digitization and Repository Modernization
(Defense)
Amount $20,000,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) Locations Unknown Location Recipients Armed Forces Institute of Pathology; Joint Pathology Center
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Pend Oreille Public Utility District for the Metaline Falls pipeline replacement project
(Interior)
Amount $400,000 Sponsors Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) Locations Washington Recipients Pend Oreille (Wash.) Public Utility District
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Kent County Convention Arena Authority, Grand Rapids, MI for planning, design and construction of an outdoor amphitheater and support facilities at Millennium Park
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $142,500 Sponsors Former Rep. Vern Ehlers (R-MI)
Former Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI)
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
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Locations Grand Rapids, Michigan Recipients Grand Rapids-Kent County (Mich.) Convention/Arena Authority
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Exeter Township Police Department Berks County Emergency Response Team (BCERT)
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $250,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Jim Gerlach (R-PA) Locations Reading, Pennsylvania Recipients Exeter (Pa.) Police Department
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Center for Genetic Origins of Cancer (Note: Department of Defense Military Health System Enhancement)
(Defense)
Amount $2,400,000 Sponsors Former Rep. John Dingell (D-MI)
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Locations Ann Arbor, Michigan Recipients Rogel Cancer Center
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeastern Pennsylvania, for recruitment, placement and oversight of school-based mentoring programs
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $95,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) Locations Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Recipients Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeastern Pennsylvania
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Facilities and equipment
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $143,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Bob Brady (D-PA) Locations Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Recipients La Salle University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Minot State University, Minot, ND, for the Job Corps Executive Management Program
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $618,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND)
Former Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND)
Locations Minot, North Dakota Recipients Minot (N.D.) State University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Right whale conservation
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $500,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-MA)
Former Sen. John Kerry (D-MA)
Former Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
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Locations Provincetown, Massachusetts Recipients Center for Coastal Studies Inc.

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