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Fiscal Year(s)

View earmark details Earmark Spending in West Virginia

* 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. 555 Total Amount $1,219,177,332
All earmarks No. 600* Total Amount $1,613,890,332*
Earmark Details Year

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Description (Bill) Amount Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Marshall University for design, planning, and construction of the Advanced Engineering and Applied Technology Complex
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $245,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV) Locations Huntington, West Virginia Recipients Marshall University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Marshall University for the Bioengineering and Biomanufacturing Institute
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $1,508,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) Locations Huntington, West Virginia Recipients Marshall University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Marshall University for the construction of a patient care and clinical training site in Southwestern West Virginia
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $2,801,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) Locations Huntington, West Virginia Recipients Marshall University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Marshall University for the Virtual Colonoscopy Outreach Program
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $1,360,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) Locations Huntington, West Virginia Recipients Marshall University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Marshall University, Forensic Science DNA Laboratory, for forensic lab equipment
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $4,465,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) Locations Huntington, West Virginia Recipients Marshall University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Marshall University, to support NASA-related composites training at the Composites Technology and Training Institute
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $2,232,500 Sponsors Former Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) Locations Bridgeport, West Virginia Recipients Marshall University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Mercer County Commission; For repair and renovation of the Memorial Building
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $980,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) Locations Princeton, West Virginia, Mercer, West Virginia Recipients Mercer County, W.Va.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Micronauts Education Simulator at Wheeling Jesuit University
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $282,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV) Locations Wheeling, West Virginia Recipients Wheeling (W.Va.) University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Middle Potomac River Watershed
(Energy and Water)
Amount $98,000 Sponsors Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD)
Former Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Former Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA)
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Locations Maryland; Pennsylvania; Virginia; West Virginia Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Milton Police Department
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $47,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV) Locations Milton, West Virginia Recipients Milton (W.Va.) Police Department

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