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Fiscal Year(s)

View earmark details Former Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Florida) - Earmarks Requested

Defeated • Alternate Name: Clarence William 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 49 Cost $55,158,250
With Other Members          Number 330 Cost $477,034,165
All Congressional                Number 379 Cost $532,192,415
All Sponsored Earmarks      Number 438* Cost $2,785,805,415*
Earmark Details Year Description (Bill)

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Amount Additional Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description University of Miami to improve and expedite hurricane forecasts through rapid transition of results to NOAA operations
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $250,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL)
Former Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL)
Locations Miami-Dade County, Florida Recipients University of Miami
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, for the Center for Patient Safety.
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $407,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Miami, Florida Recipients University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description University of Florida, with the EARTH University Foundation, Biofuel Project
(Energy and Water)
Amount $984,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Gainesville, Florida Recipients University of Florida (Gainesville); EARTH University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description University of Central Florida, Department of Political Science, Orlando, FL for the Lou Frey Institute of Politics
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $333,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Ric Keller (R-FL) Locations Orlando, Florida Recipients University of Central Florida
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description University Community Hospital/Pepin Heart Hospital, Tampa, FL for purchase of equipment
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $238,000 Sponsors Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) Locations Tampa, Florida Recipients AdventHealth Tampa (Fla.); Pepin Heart Hospital and Dr. Kiran C. Patel Research Institute (Tampa, Fla.)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description United Way of Miami-Dade, Miami, Fl for the Center of Excellence in Early Education, including teacher training programs
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $300,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)
Locations Miami, Florida Recipients United Way of Miami-Dade (Fla.) Inc.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Union County Sheriff Law Enforcement Visual Intelligence Tool
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $450,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Ander Crenshaw (R-FL) Locations Lake Butler, Florida Recipients Union County (Fla.) Sheriff's Office
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Underwater Imaging and Communications Using Lasers
(Defense)
Amount $2,000,000 Sponsors Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)
Former Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL)
Locations Fort Pierce, Florida Recipients Florida Atlantic University Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Turtle Protection Funding/Gulf of Mexico Grouper Fishery
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $250,000 Sponsors No additional sponsors indicated Locations Miami, Florida Recipients National Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Fisheries Science Center
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Town of Jupiter, Florida Police Radio Communications System Upgrade
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $100,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Ron Klein (D-FL)
Former Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-FL)
Locations Jupiter, Florida Recipients Town of Jupiter, Fla.

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