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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 Description (Bill) Amount

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Additional Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description North Carolina Mentoring Partnership: Mentoring Programs for At-Risk Youth
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $400,000 Sponsors Former Rep. David Price (D-NC) Locations Raleigh, North Carolina Recipients North Carolina Mentoring Partnership
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Gang and Delinquency Prevention Initiative
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $450,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) Locations Winston-Salem, North Carolina Recipients Forsyth County, N.C.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Central Piedmont Community College, high-tech crime scene investigation training
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $470,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC)
Former Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC)
Former Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC)
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Locations Charlotte, North Carolina Recipients Central Piedmont Community College
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description City of Winston-Salem, NC, for creation of office space to recruit businesses to a Winston-Salem, as part of the revitalization of a blighted area
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $487,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) Locations Winston-Salem, North Carolina Recipients City of Winston-Salem, N.C.
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 2010 Description Charlotte Streetcar Project, NC
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $500,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Larry Kissell (D-NC)
Former Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC)
Locations Charlotte, North Carolina Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Bennett College for Women for equipment, technology, and professional development
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $517,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC)
Former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC)
Locations Greensboro, North Carolina Recipients Bennett College for Women
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Central Piedmont Community College
(Energy and Water)
Amount $525,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Larry Kissell (D-NC)
Former Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC)
Locations North Carolina Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description University of North Carolina, with East Carolina University, for the program in Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease.
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $560,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) Locations Chapel Hill, North Carolina Recipients East Carolina University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Rowan County Airport, land acquisition (runway protection zone)
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $588,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC)
Former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC)
Locations North Carolina Recipients

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