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View earmark details Former Rep. Mel Watt (D-North Carolina, 12th) - Earmarks Requested

Resigned • Alternate Name: Melvin Luther Watt
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 15 Cost $7,090,000
With Other Members          Number 54 Cost $79,806,500
All Congressional                Number 69 Cost $86,896,500
All Sponsored Earmarks      Number 69* Cost $86,896,500*
Earmark Details Year

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Description (Bill) Amount Additional Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Concord Regional Airport Improvements
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $392,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC)
Former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC)
Locations Concord, North Carolina Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Gallium Nitride (GaN) RF Power Technology
(Defense)
Amount $1,600,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC) Locations Freeport, Pennsylvania; Charlotte Recipients Pennsylvania State University Electro-Optics Center; RF Micro Devices Inc.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Gallium Nitride RF Power Technology
(Defense)
Amount $2,000,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC)
Former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC)
Locations Charlotte, Pennsylvania Recipients Pennsylvania State University Electro-Optics Center; RF Micro Devices Inc.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description I-77
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $490,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) Locations Mecklenburg, North Carolina Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Intermodal Transportation Facility
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $392,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Winston-Salem, North Carolina Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Joint Biological Point Detection System (JBPDS)
(Defense)
Amount $3,500,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC)
Former Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC)
Former Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC)
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Locations Unknown Location Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Klumac Road grade crossing separation
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $300,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Salisbury, North Carolina Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Livingstone College Criminal Justice Program
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $329,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) Locations Livingstone College, North Carolina Recipients Livingstone College
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description National Textile Center (NTC): Funding to continue and enhance research currently conducted at a multi-university consortium that links the textile and fiber-based materials industry sector to leading research and education programs
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $4,700,000 alert Sponsors Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL)
Former Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC)
Former Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC)
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Locations California; Georgia; Massachusetts; North Carolina; New York; Pennsylvania; South Carolina Recipients National Textile Center
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description City of Winston-Salem, NC
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $376,000 Sponsors Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC)
Former Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC)
Former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC)
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Locations Winston-Salem, North Carolina Recipients City of Winston-Salem, N.C.

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