Earmarks Sponsored by Rep. C.A. Ruppersberger [D, MD-2]
According to data from Taxpayers for Common Sense, Rep. Ruppersberger sponsored 39 earmarks worth $100,385,650 for Fiscal Year 2008. His earmarks are listed below, grouped by the bill containing the earmark.
Commerce, Justice & Science
| Description | Amount | Location | Other Sponsors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore City Police Department, to upgrade forensics laboratory equipment | $446,500 | Baltimore, MD | Senate: Mikulski [, MD] |
| Baltimore City, MD Public School Safety Initiative | $399,500 | Baltimore City, MD | House: Cummings [, MD-7] |
| Baltimore County, MD Ex-Offender Program Equipment | $329,000 | Baltimore County, MD | House: Cummings [, MD-7] |
| Capital Wireless Information Network, wireless database access and for public safety personnel in the National Capital region | $893,000 | Greenbelt, MD | Senate:
Mikulski [, MD]
House: Van Hollen [, MD-8] |
| Chesapeake Information Based Aeronautics Consortium, partnership of Morgan State University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and Bowie State University for continued aviation safety research and development | $3,572,000 | MD | Senate:
Cardin [, MD],
Mikulski [, MD]
House: Cummings [, MD-7] |
| John Smith Water Trail, installation of interactive buoys marking the John Smith National Water Trail on the Chesapeake Bay, The Conservation Fund | $446,500 | Arlington, VA | Senate:
Cardin [, MD],
Mikulski [, MD],
Warner [, VA]
House: Gilchrest [, MD-1] |
| Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center, Gang Elimination Task Force | $2,820,000 | Baltimore, MD | |
| State of Maryland, Annapolis, MD, for equipment to attain interoperability among all state law enforcement agencies as well as local jurisdictions | $669,750 | Annapolis, MD | Senate: Cardin [, MD] |
| Susquehanna River Basin Flood System, funding for flood inundation maps and capitol improvements to flood warning system, Susquehanna River Basin Commission | $1,786,000 | Harrisburg, PA | Senate:
Mikulski [, MD],
Specter [, PA]
House: Gilchrest [, MD-1], Hinchey [, NY-22], Platts [, PA-19] |
| University of Maryland, creation of a new generational robotic technology for space exploration, Maryland Institute for Dextrous Robotics | $2,679,000 | College Park, MD | Senate:
Mikulski [, MD]
House: Hoyer [, MD-5] |
| Urbanet Ill, for continuation of the NOAA Air Resource Laboratory's Urbanet Partnership to expand the number of metropolitan areas covered by the Urbanet system to improve weather forecasting, AWS Convergence Technologies | $5,358,000 | Germantown, MD | Senate: Cardin [, MD], Mikulski [, MD] |
Defense
| Description | Amount | Location | Other Sponsors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) | $6,000,000 | Unknown | Senate:
Dodd [, CT],
Gregg [, NH],
Inhofe [, OK],
Kerry [, MA],
Lautenberg [, NJ],
Lieberman [, CT],
Menéndez [, NJ],
Mikulski [, MD],
Sununu [, NH]
House: Pascrell [, NJ-8], Sullivan [, OK-1] |
| Advanced Restoration Therapies in Spinal Cord Injuries | $1,000,000 | Baltimore, MD | Senate:
Cardin [, MD],
Mikulski [, MD]
House: Cummings [, MD-7], Hoyer [, MD-5] |
| Center for Resuscitation Research | $3,000,000 | Baltimore, MD | Senate: Cardin [, MD], Mikulski [, MD] |
| Laser Based Explosives and Chem/bio Standoff and Point Detector | $3,200,000 | Unknown | Senate: Cardin [, MD], Mikulski [, MD] |
| Massive Tissue Injury/Amputation Repair with Composite Tissue Transplantation | $3,000,000 | Unknown | Senate: Cardin [, MD], Mikulski [, MD] |
| Orthopedic Extremity Trauma Research Program | $4,800,000 | Unknown | Senate: Harkin [, IA], Hutchison [, TX] |
| Profiler-Meteorological Measuring Set | $2,500,000 | Unknown | Senate:
Inhofe [, OK],
Lincoln [, AR],
Pryor [, AR]
House: Berry [, AR-1], Herseth Sandlin [, SD-AL] |
| Rotary, Multi-Fuel, Auxiliary Power Unit for M1-A1 Abrams Tank | $2,000,000 | Elkridge, MD | Senate:
Biden [, DE],
Cardin [, MD],
Carper [, DE],
Mikulski [, MD]
House: Castle [, DE-AL] |
| Rotocraft Survivability Assessment Facility | $1,600,000 | Eden Prairie, MN | Senate:
Cardin [, MD],
Mikulski [, MD]
House: Ramstad [, MN-3] |
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