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Fiscal Year(s)

View earmark details Former Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) - Earmarks Requested

Retired • Alternate Name: Earl Benjamin Nelson
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 56 Cost $62,249,440
With Other Members          Number 113 Cost $182,220,050
All Congressional                Number 169 Cost $244,469,490
All Sponsored Earmarks      Number 174* Cost $294,574,490*
Earmark Details Year Description (Bill) Amount

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Additional Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Heartland Family Service for the Methamphetamine Treatment Program for Omaha
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $100,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) Locations Omaha, Nebraska Recipients Heartland Family Service
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Alliance for Food Protection
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $122,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) Locations Nebraska Recipients University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Alliance for Food Protection
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $130,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) Locations Nebraska Recipients University of Georgia (Athens); University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description CEDARS, Lincoln, NE, for an emergency shelter program for runaway and homeless youth
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $133,950 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Lincoln, Nebraska Recipients CEDARS Youth Services Inc.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Sweet Sorghum for Energy Production, NE
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $140,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) Locations Nebraska Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description CEDARS Youth Services, Inc., for construction of the Children's Crisis Center for abused, homeless, and runaway youth in southeast Nebraska
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $142,500 Sponsors Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) Locations Lincoln, Nebraska Recipients CEDARS Youth Services Inc.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Sweet sorghum for energy production
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $149,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE)
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
Locations Nebraska Recipients University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Zero to Three to educate juvenile and family court judges in early childhood development in order to improve the child welfare system for maltreated infants and toddlers
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $150,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) Locations Omaha, Nebraska Recipients Zero to Three
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Platte River
(Energy and Water)
Amount $157,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE)
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
Locations Fremont, Nebraska Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Northeast Community College, nurse training and equipment
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $162,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) Locations Norfolk, Nebraska Recipients

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