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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)

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Amount Additional Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Section 122--Sand Creek, Nebraska
(Energy and Water)
Amount $0 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Sand Creek, Nebraska Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Section 117--Antelope Creek, Lincoln, NE
(Energy and Water)
Amount $0 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Lincoln, Nebraska Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Sand Creek Watershed, Saunders County, NE
(Energy and Water)
Amount $400,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE)
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
Locations Saunders County, Nebraska Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Sand Creek Watershed, Saunders County
(Energy and Water)
Amount $1,591,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE)
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
Locations Saunders, Nebraska Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Salt Cedar and Russian Olive Control Program
(Energy and Water)
Amount $590,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
Former Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM)
Former Rep. John Salazar (D-CO)
...more
Locations Unknown Location Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Safeguarding End-User Military Software
(Defense)
Amount $4,000,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) Locations Lincoln, Nebraska Recipients University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Rural Policies Institute
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $889,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO)
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
Former Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)
...more
Locations Missouri; Nebraska Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Ruminant Nutrition Consortium, MT, ND, SD, WY
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $563,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD)
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
Sen. John Thune (R-SD)
...more
Locations North Dakota; South Dakota; Wyoming Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Robotic Telesurgery in Combat Environments
(Defense)
Amount $3,500,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) Locations Unknown Location Recipients
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.)

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