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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

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Description (Bill) Amount Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Western Kentucky University Business Accelerator, for expansion of the WKU Business Accelerator
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $49,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Ron Lewis (R-KY) Locations Bowling Green, Kentucky Recipients Western Kentucky University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Western Kentucky University Research Foundation, equipment acquisition for the science, technology and engineering facility
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $1,436,000 Sponsors Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Locations Bowling Green, Kentucky Recipients Western Kentucky University Research Foundation
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Western Kentucky University Research Foundation, for the Western Kentucky University Mobile Health Screening Unit.
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $478,000 Sponsors Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Locations Bowling Green, Kentucky Recipients Western Kentucky University Research Foundation
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, for campus public safety
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $188,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) Locations Bowling Green, Kentucky Recipients Western Kentucky University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Williamsburg Lake, Grant and Pendleton counties
(Homeland Security)
Amount $500,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Geoff Davis (R-KY) Locations Kentucky Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Wolf Creek (Seepage Control)
(Energy and Water)
Amount $53,234,000 Sponsors President *
Former Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY)
Former Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Former Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN)
...more
Locations Kentucky Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Wolf Creek Dam, Lake Cumberland
(Energy and Water)
Amount $9,804,000 Sponsors Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY)
Former Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY)
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
...more
Locations Kentucky Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Woodford County, KY Sheriff's Mobile Data Terminals
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $202,100 Sponsors Former Rep. Ben Chandler (D-KY) Locations Woodford, Kentucky Recipients Woodford County (Ky.) Sheriff's Department
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Yatesville Lake
(Energy and Water)
Amount $966,000 Sponsors No sponsor indicated Locations Kentucky Recipients

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