Menu Search Account

LegiStorm

Get LegiStorm App Visit Product Demo Website
» Get LegiStorm App
» Get LegiStorm Pro Free Demo
Where are this year's earmarks
Fiscal Year(s)

View earmark details View Earmarks by Bill Section: Department of Commerce

Fiscal Year(s) 2008-2010 No. Total Amount
Earmarks No. 512 Total Amount $1,276,541,038
Show all bill subsections
Earmark Details Year Description

(asc)

Amount Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership for continued protection and acquisition of critical habitats and lands around Great Bay Amount $3,000,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH)
Former Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH)
Former Sen. John Sununu (R-NH)
...more
Locations Portsmouth, New Hampshire Recipients Great Bay (N.H.) Resource Protection Partnership
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Great Lakes Science Center Great Lakes Water Education STEM Project Amount $500,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-OH)
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Locations Cleveland, Ohio Recipients Harbor Heritage Society
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Great Lakes Water Project Amount $250,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-OH) Locations Cleveland, Ohio Recipients Harbor Heritage Society
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Groundfish industry emergency economic assistance Amount $1,000,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Mike Michaud (D-ME)
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)
Former Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
...more
Locations Augusta, Maine Recipients Maine Department of Marine Resources
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Groundline Exchange Program, to coordinate a Maine groundline exchange program providing financial assistance to lobstermen by enabling them to purchase "whale-safe" rope in exchange for their existing groundline, Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation Amount $376,000 Sponsors Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)
Former Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
Locations Maine Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Gulf of Alaska Coastal Communities Coalition for the organization to serve as an advocate for small boat community-based fisheries in the Gulf of Alaska Amount $150,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Don Young (R-AK)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Locations Anchorage, Alaska Recipients Gulf of Alaska Coastal Communities Coalition
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Gulf of Farralones NMS Exhibit, to enhance the public awareness of the Sanctuary and human dependence upon a healthy ocean ecosystem, Fitzgerald Marine Reserve Amount $669,750 Sponsors Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA)
Former Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA)
Former Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
...more
Locations San Mateo, California Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation to provide economic relief to Maine lobstermen Amount $100,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Tom Allen (D-ME)
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)
Former Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
...more
Locations Kennebunk, Maine Recipients Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Gulf of Maine Research Institute Transforming New England's Groundfishery into Harvesting Sectors Amount $200,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Tom Allen (D-ME)
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)
Former Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
...more
Locations Portland, Maine Recipients Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Gulf of Mexico Disaster Response Center Amount $11,060,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Locations Unknown Location Recipients

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