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Fiscal Year(s)

View earmark details Earmark Spending in Kentucky

* Earmarks requested by the president are not included in the member and state rankings to better reflect political power. This follows the methodology used by Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Fiscal Year(s) 2008-2010 No Total Amount
Congressional earmarks No. 599 Total Amount $960,541,427
All earmarks No. 679* Total Amount $2,879,856,427*
Earmark Details Year Description (Bill) Amount

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Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Western Kentucky University to complete the development of a monitoring system that will collect real-time weather observations through a statewide grid of stations in Kentucky
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $700,000 Sponsors Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Locations Bowling Green, Kentucky Recipients Western Kentucky University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description SEKTDA for economic and small business development at Southern and Eastern Kentucky
(Financial Services)
Amount $700,000 Sponsors Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) Locations Kentucky Recipients Southern and Eastern Kentucky Tourism Development Association
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description SEKTDA, Somerset, KY for economic and small business development in Southern and Eastern Kentucky
(Financial Services)
Amount $685,000 Sponsors Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) Locations Somerset, Kentucky Recipients Southern and Eastern Kentucky Tourism Development Association
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Precision Agriculture, KY
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $671,000 Sponsors Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Locations Kentucky Recipients University of Kentucky Research Foundation
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description WestCare Kentucky, Ashcamp, KY for a substance abuse treatment and voucher program
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $670,000 Sponsors Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) Locations Ashcamp, Kentucky Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description City of Cumberland
(Homeland Security)
Amount $650,000 Sponsors Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) Locations Kentucky Recipients City of Cumberland, Ky.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Transylvania University Brown Science Center Equipment
(Energy and Water)
Amount $650,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Ben Chandler (D-KY) Locations Lexington, Kentucky Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Advanced Genetic Technologies, KY
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $650,000 Sponsors Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Locations Kentucky Recipients University of Kentucky Research Foundation
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Installation Chapel Center
(Military Construction)
Amount $630,000 Sponsors Former Rep. John Tanner (D-TN)
Former Rep. Zach Wamp (R-TN)
Former Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY)
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Locations Fort Campbell, Kentucky Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Health Education Through Extension Leadership
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $628,000 Sponsors Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Locations Kentucky Recipients University of Kentucky (Lexington)

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