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View earmark details Former Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-Minnesota, 8th) - Earmarks Requested

Defeated, Died, May 3, 2014 • Alternate Name: James Louis Oberstar
All     Solo     With Other Members     
* Numbers other than "All Sponsored Earmarks" do not include earmarks requested by the president to better reflect political power. This follows the methodology used by Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Fiscal Year(s) 2008-2010 Number Cost
Solo Earmarks                     Number 38 Cost $22,146,843
With Other Members          Number 62 Cost $151,734,450
All Congressional                Number 100 Cost $173,881,293
All Sponsored Earmarks      Number 107* Cost $254,471,293*
Earmark Details Year Description (Bill) Amount

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Additional Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Itasca County 9-11 Radio System
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $500,000 Sponsors Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) Locations Grand Rapids, Minnesota Recipients Itasca County, Minn.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description MN TH38 Improvements
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $490,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Minnesota Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description High Speed Passenger Railroad Service, Duluth, MN
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $475,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Duluth, Minnesota Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Arrowhead Regional Development Commission
(Homeland Security)
Amount $450,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Minnesota Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Winona State University, Winona, MN, to teach investigators and prosecutors the science of interviewing children victimized by abuse
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $446,500 Sponsors Former Rep. Tim Walz (D-MN)
Former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN)
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
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Locations Winona, Minnesota Recipients Winona State University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Cambridge-lsanti Bike-Walking Trail, MN
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $400,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Minnesota Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Koochiching County, Renewable Energy Clean Air Project (RECAP), Plasma Gasification Waste-to-Energy Project
(Energy and Water)
Amount $394,000 Sponsors Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) Locations Koochiching, Minnesota Recipients Koochiching County, Minn.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Transit Bus Facilities
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $392,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Duluth, Minnesota Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Lutheran Social Services, for services to runaway, homeless, and other at-risk youth and their families
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $383,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN)
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Locations Duluth, Minnesota Recipients Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Duluth Children's Museum, for exhibits and educational programs
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $381,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN)
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Locations Duluth, Minnesota Recipients Duluth (Minn.) Children's Museum

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