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View earmark details Former Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-Texas, 27th) - Earmarks Requested

Defeated • Alternate Name: Solomon Porfirio Ortiz Sr.
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 28 Cost $55,325,514
With Other Members          Number 41 Cost $97,072,500
All Congressional                Number 69 Cost $152,398,014
All Sponsored Earmarks      Number 82* Cost $352,869,014*
Earmark Details Year

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 Description (Bill) Amount Additional Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Driscoll Children's Hospital, for facilities and equipment
(Labor-HHS-Education)		 Amount $119,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX)
Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)		 Locations Corpus Christi, Texas Recipients Driscoll Children's Hospital (Corpus Christi, Texas)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description City of Port Aransas to preserve endangered wetlands and help stop severe erosion in Port Aransas and along the Corpus Christi Ship Channel
(Commerce, Justice and Science)		 Amount $300,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) Locations Port Aransas, Texas Recipients City of Port Aransas, Texas
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Brownsville Urban System City Wide Transit Improvement
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)		 Amount $237,500 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Brownsville, Texas Recipients Brownsville (Texas) Urban System
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Brazos Island Harbor
(Energy and Water)		 Amount $5,431,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX)
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)		 Locations Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Brazos Island Harbor
(Energy and Water)		 Amount $478,000 Sponsors President *
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)		 Locations Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Aquaculture
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)		 Amount $416,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL)
Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL)
Former Rep. Susan Davis (D-CA)
...more		 Locations Florida; Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description University of Texas Marine Science Institute UTMSI - Center for Biological Indicators of Change in Coastal Ecosystem Health
(Commerce, Justice and Science)		 Amount $500,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Port Aransas, Texas Recipients University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Corpus Christi Ship Channel
(Energy and Water)		 Amount $1,148,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX)
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)
Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
...more		 Locations Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Brownsville Campus - University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health, Brownsville, TX for studies regarding the health of the Hispanic population in the Rio Grande Valley
(Labor-HHS-Education)		 Amount $238,000 Sponsors Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) Locations Brownsville, Texas Recipients University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Del Mar College, for curriculum development and the purchase of equipment, technology, and training materials for instruction in closed captioning
(Labor-HHS-Education)		 Amount $381,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Corpus Christi, Texas Recipients Del Mar College (Corpus Christi, Texas)

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