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Where are this year's earmarks
Fiscal Year(s)

View earmark details Earmark Spending in Texas

* 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. 1401 Total Amount $1,907,539,730
All earmarks No. 1689* Total Amount $6,315,890,955*
Earmark Details Year

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Description (Bill) Amount Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Women's Center of Tarrant County, TX
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $235,000 Sponsors Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) Locations Tarrant, Texas Recipients Women's Center of Tarrant County (Texas)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Women's Museum outreach expansion and programming efforts
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $192,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) Locations Dallas, Texas Recipients Women's Museum (Dallas, Texas)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Wool Research, MT, TX, WY
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $219,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX)
Former Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D-TX)
Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
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Locations Texas; Wyoming Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Wright Patman Dam and Lake
(Energy and Water)
Amount $3,394,000 Sponsors No sponsor indicated Locations Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description WWTP, Meridian, TX
(Energy and Water)
Amount $0 Sponsors Former Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX) Locations Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description YMCA of Greater Houston Juvenile Justice Outreach Program, TX
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $446,500 Sponsors Former Rep. Gene Green (D-TX) Locations Houston, Texas Recipients YMCA of Greater Houston (Texas)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth, TX
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $282,000 Sponsors Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) Locations Fort Worth, Texas Recipients YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth (Texas)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Youth Center Expansion
(Military Construction)
Amount $2,000,000 Sponsors President (solo) * Locations Fort Bliss, Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Zumwalt National Program for Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical Threats
(Defense)
Amount $1,000,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-TX) Locations Lubbock, Texas Recipients Texas Tech University (Lubbock)

Information provided by Taxpayers for Common Sense ( http://www.taxpayer.net/ )