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Earmarks requested by Sen. Jack Reed

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

AmountEarmark DescriptionIntended Recipient
$138,000,000 for Peer Reviewed Breast Cancer Research Program
$80,000,000 for Peer Reviewed Prostate Cancer Research Program
$50,000,000 for Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program
$33,000,000 for Aviation Support Facility
$32,485,000 for Civic Education Program (Center for Civic Education and National Council on Economic Education) It is also for a comprehensive program between the Center for Civic Education, Indiana University and NCSL to improve public education of the congress and state legislatures.
$24,000,000 for Industrial Base Innovation Fund
$24,000,000 for National Writing Project, a nonprofit organization that supports and promotes K–16 teacher training programs in the effective teaching of writing.
$12,269,449 for South County Commuter Rail Wickford Junction Station
$10,000,000 for Peer Reviewed Ovarian Cancer Research Program
$9,900,000 for Reconstruct Wharf Between Pier 1 & 2
$8,200,000 for Readiness Center
$8,000,000 for High Performance Manufacturing Technology Initiative
$8,000,000 for Disruptive Manufacturing Technology Initiative
$7,000,000 for Procurement Technical Assistance Centers
$5,000,000 for Impact Aid for Children with Disabilities
$5,000,000 for Metals Affordability Initiative
$5,000,000 for Special Operations Training Facility
$5,000,000 for Undersea Launched Missile Study
$5,000,000 for Flexible Aerogels Material Supplier Initiative Aspen Aerogels - East Providence Manufacturing Facility
$4,000,000 for Rapid Repair UV Curable Structural Adhesives
$4,000,000 for Laser Collective Combat Training System for the ANG
$3,200,000 for Advanced Intercept & Ranging System MIKEL Inc.
$3,200,000 for Improved Submarine Thin Line Towed Array Handler
$3,200,000 for 2nd Generation Extended Cold Weather Clothing System
$3,000,000 for Copper Antimicrobial Research Program
$3,000,000 for Armor Ready Composite Cab Transition
$2,800,000 for Undersea Perimeter Security Integrated Defense Environment
$2,800,000 for Organic Submarine Airborne ISRT Demonstration
$2,400,000 for Submarine Artificial Intelligence-Based Combat System Kernal
$2,400,000 for Handheld Phraselator System
$2,240,000 for Alternate Payload Bomb live Unit Munition
$2,209,000 for JASON Project
$2,000,000 for X-band Interferometric Radar Applied Radar, Inc.
$2,000,000 for 3D Woven Ballistic Materials for Future Combat Systems
$2,000,000 for Combat Wound Initiative at Walter Reed Army Medical Center
$2,000,000 for Castings for Improved Defense Readiness American Metalcasting Consortium
$1,960,000 for Pawtucket/Central Falls Commuter Rail Station
$1,760,000 for 2nd Generation Extended Cold Weather Clothing System
$1,600,000 for Maritime Mobile Force Protection Program
$1,600,000 for Rugged Electronic Textile Vital Signs Monitoring
$1,600,000 for Automated Submarine Command and Control Center
$1,600,000 for New England Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative
$1,600,000 for Improved Surface Vessel Torpedo Launcher
$1,600,000 for Combat Control for Distributed Netted Systems
$1,476,000 for U. of Rhode Island, Research and Technology Development for genetic improvement of Switchgrass, Biomass
$1,470,000 for I-195 Relocation
$1,341,522 for Rhode Island Public Transit Authority Intelligent Transportation System
$1,339,500 for Southern New England Cooperative Research Initiative, cooperative research and monitoring projects in southern New England, Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation
$1,240,000 for Ten Mile River restoration
$984,000 for Foster-Gloucester Regional School District Ponaganset Alternative Energy Lab and Biomass Facilities Project
$893,000 for Mill Creek Conservation, conservation of coastal environment, Mill Creek Conservation
$893,000 for Narragansett Bay Marine Education, curriculum development and operation of youth and adult education programs, Save the Bay
$877,000 for Rhode Island Quality Institute for health information technology in conjunction with Rhode Island mental health organizations.
$828,000 for Salve Regina University, historic preservation education programs including equipment
$810,000 for United State Property and Fiscal Office
$750,000 for Bachelor Quarters Addition
$689,000 for The City of East Providence for Nutrient Removal
$689,000 for Water Systems Council WellCare water well owner technical assistance program
$620,000 for Charlestown Breachway And Inlet, RI
$596,000 for Aquatic Veterinary Pathology, RI Roger Williams University
$500,000 for Newport County Chamber of Commerce for marine trades training expansion
$492,000 for The City of Warwick for water transmission system improvements
$492,000 for Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex
$490,000 for RI Bridge and Tunnel Authority EZPass Project for Claiborne Pell Bridge
$475,000 for Environmental Biotechnology, RI
$470,000 for Narragansett Bay Window Program
$446,000 for Narragansett Bay Window Program, Monitoring the Narragansett Bay, University of Rhode Island Coastal Institute
$438,000 for Northwest Community Health Care, Pascoag, RI for facilities and equipment
$423,000 for Providence After School Alliance programs for at risk youth, Providence, RI
$414,000 for Cumberland, for afterschool programs and activities
$414,000 for Westerly Hospital, for construction, renovation, and equipment.
$357,200 for City of Newport, RI, for 800 MHz public safety radio spectrum interoperability
$352,500 for Streetworkers Program, Institute for Study and Practice of Nonviolence, Providence, RI
$328,300 for Urban League of Rhode Island, South Providence Neighborhood Center Building Project, for the construction of a three-story, 9,000 square foot addition to house a community meeting room, senior center, and office space
$328,300 for Coventry CARES Community Center for the construction of an intergenerational complex comprised of human services, adult day care, and a senior center1
$316,000 for Arc of Blackstone Valley, for a workforce development initiative
$305,500 for Providence, RI Public Safety Communications Equipment
$298,000 for Tick Borne Disease Prevention, RI
$295,000 for The City of Newport for water pollution control management
$295,000 for John Brown House
$292,000 for City of Pawtucket School Department, Pawtucket, RI for the Jacqueline Walsh School of the Performing and Visual Arts, which may include equipment
$267,900 for Ocean Tides School, Narragansett, RI, to enhance its science and computer labs to encourage the study of science and technology
$263,200 for City of Providence, Providence, RI, for the Providence After School Alliance (PASA)
$263,200 for American Sailing Association, Newport, RI, programs for at risk youth
$261,000 for Shellfish, RI East Coast Shellfish Research Institute
$246,000 for South Coastal Rhode Island Regional Sediment Management Study
$223,250 for Rhode Island Family Court Mental Health Services, Providence, RI, to provide rapid psychological evaluations and treatment recommendations to youth and the courts.
$219,000 for Providence Community Health Center for construction
$204,000 for Samaritans of Rhode Island, to enhance the Suicide Crisis Hotline
$204,000 for Community College of Rhode Island equipment and laboratory facilities for health care education
$197,000 for Blackstone River Watershed Restoration
$196,980 for Crossroads Rhode Island Child Care and Community Center, for the construction of a child care and community center to provide both homeless families and neighborhood residents with affordable child care
$196,980 for City of Central Falls, Central Falls Urban Revitalization Project, for the remediation of the Old Public Works Building and rehabilitation of city recreational facilities
$196,000 for Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence, for Building renovations
$196,000 for Capitol Region RSVP/Volunteer Center of Rhode Island, construction of a computer lab and purchase of equipment to train disabled veterans
$196,000 for Ocean Community YMCA, Camp Watchaug Redevelopment, for the renovations to create a state-of-the-art learning center
$192,000 for Brush Neck Cove
$188,000 for NOAA Save the Bay Educational Programs and Shellfish Restoration
$187,000 for Warwick Cove
$187,000 for Point Judith Harbor of Refuge
$179,000 for Narrow River Restoration
$165,000 for Nitrate Pollution Reduction, RI NRCS Rhode Island
$146,000 for Groden Center, Providence, RI for job readiness training for adults with Asperger's Syndrome
$143,000 for Soil Surveys, RI NRCS Rhode Island
$133,950 for Town of Westerly, Westerly, RI, for communications equipment to improve community policing capabilities
$121,000 for Jumpstart for Young Children, to recruit and train college students to serve as mentors for at-risk preschool children in Rhode Island
$98,000 for Rhode Island Restoration Study
$97,000 for Rhode Island College, Providence, RI for development of a Portuguese and Lusophone Studies Program
$89,300 for Town of Johnston, Johnston, RI, to purchase communications equipment
$62,000 for Pocasset River Floodplain Management Project
$0 for Girls and Boys Town U,S,A,, Boys Town, NE, Treatment centers for at risk kids that provides mentoring and education
$0 for Winneapaug Pond Restoration
$0 for Economic order quantity
$0 for National Association of Police Athletics/Activities Leagues, Inc. (PAL), for law enforcement officials to participate in after school programs to prevent juvenile crime and violence using recreational activities and mentoring

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