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Fiscal Year(s)

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

(desc)

Description (Bill) Amount Additional Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
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)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Port Aransas Ferryboat Expansion, Port Aransas, TX
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $475,000 Sponsors Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) Locations Port Aransas, Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Plasma Technology Laboratory
(Defense)
Amount $800,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Corpus Christi, Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Pulse Virtual Clinical Learning Lab
(Defense)
Amount $2,400,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Corpus Christi, Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description North Brownsville Industrial Park, TX
(Financial Services)
Amount $196,514 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge
(Interior)
Amount $500,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX)
Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
Locations Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Parking Apron Recapitalization Ph 1
(Military Construction)
Amount $3,500,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Corpus Christi, Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Robstown Trade Processing and Inland Center, Robstown, TX
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $237,500 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Robstown, Texas Recipients
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)
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Locations Texas Recipients
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

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