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Earmarks requested by Rep. Joe Wilson

Data from Fiscal Year 2008 appropriations bills supplied by Taxpayers for Common Sense.

AmountEarmark DescriptionIntended Recipient
$ for Silver Crescent Foundation, Charleston, SC for a middle and high school academic engineering and technology program
$4,700,000 for National Textile Center (NTC): Funding to continue and enhance research currently conducted at a multi-university consortium that links the textile and fiber-based materials industry sector to leading research and education programs Clemson, Auburn, Umass-Dartmouth, Georgia Tech, Cornell, NC State, UC Davis, Philadelphia University
$3,920,000 for I-95/ SC 301Interchange Improvement Project
$3,500,000 for Nuclear/Biological/Chemical Facility
$2,700,000 for Controlled Humidity Protection [CHP] SC Air National Guard
$2,400,000 for Tactical Metal Fabrication System (TacFab) Ajax Tocco; Sea Box, Inc.; Thermo Fisher Scientific; Army Tank Automotive Research , Development and Engineering Center; South Carolina Research Authority
$1,600,000 for Aluminum Nitride for Substrates and Devices University of South Carolina, Department of Electrical Engineering
$1,600,000 for Vanadium Technology Program Advanced Technology Institute
$1,600,000 for Scanning Technology for Accelerating Reset South Carolina Research Authority
$984,000 for BioEthanol Collaborative (SC)
$492,000 for Biofuel Production Initiative Claflin (SC)
$490,000 for U.S. 278 Corridor
$352,500 for West Columbia, SC, Police Department
$277,000 for Communi Care, Inc., Columbia, SC for health information systems, facilities, and equipment
$148,000 for The City of West Columbia for wastewater line replacement project

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