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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 Lower Platte River and Tributaries, NE
(Energy and Water)
Amount $167,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) Locations Nebraska Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description City of Lincoln, for Antelope Valley Project Community Revitalization
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $176,400 Sponsors Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE)
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
Locations Lincoln, Nebraska Recipients City of Lincoln, Neb.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Residential Care Consortium, Omaha, NE, for a program for underprivileged, at-risk, and disadvantaged children, young adults, and their families in a residential care setting,
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $178,600 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Omaha, Nebraska Recipients Residential Care Consortium (Omaha, Neb.)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Heartland Family Service, to provide services to women and children in methamphetamine abuse cases
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $178,600 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Omaha, Nebraska Recipients Heartland Family Service
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Creighton University, for personal training, equipment, and technological upgrades for the Milton R. Abrahams Legal Clinic
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $178,600 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Omaha, Nebraska Recipients Creighton University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Peru State College, Peru, NE for the Adopt a High School initiative
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $192,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE)
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
Locations Peru, Nebraska Recipients Peru (Neb.) State College
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Durham Museum Photo Archive Project
(Legislative Branch)
Amount $200,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Omaha, Nebraska Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Center for Disability Rights, law & Advocacy
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $200,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Scottsbluff, Nebraska Recipients Disability Rights Nebraska
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Visiting Nurse Association, for an intervention program for vulnerable women, infants and children
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $223,250 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Omaha, Nebraska Recipients Visiting Nurse Association
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Nebraska State Patrol, to combat methamphetamine
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $235,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE)
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
Locations Lincoln, Nebraska Recipients

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