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Sheila Jackson Lee's earmark requests for FY2009
Sheila Jackson Lee has disclosed her earmark requests for 2009.
The deadline has passed for House members to submit their requests for earmark projects for fiscal year 2009.
We'll post the requests by the Houston delegation as we receive them. Here they are for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston:
Subcommittee on Agriculture:
• $352,500 for Houston Zoo for Improved Quarantine Management Program
• $500,000 for Texas A&M University for North Harris County flood control
• $2,000,000 for Texas A&M University to reduce the threat of mosquito-borne diseases
Subcommittee on Commerce, Science, Justice
• $500,000 for Upstart Productions for All Kids Count Program
• $2,000,000 for Texas Medical Center for emergency communications and mobility center
• $4,000,000 for Kids Peace Texas foster care and family services program
• $224,420 for Harris County Constable's Department, Precinct Seven for gang task force
• $2,000,000 for Thurgood Marshall College Fund for Minority Science Initiative: NASA
• $300,000 for Harris County Constable's Department, Precinct Seven for tracking sex offenders
Subcommittee on Defense:
• $1,000,000 for Riverside General Hospital for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder
• $1,000,000 for the Center for Research on Minority Health for Asian American Needs Assessment
• $1,000,000 for the Center for Research on Minority Health for Prostate Cancer Outreach Project
• $5,000,000 for the Thurgood Marshall College Fund for the Defense Leadership and Technology Initiative
• $2,000,000 for the Taylor Foundation for Sickle Cell Research for funding for Sickle Cell research at Texas Children's Hospital
• $5,000,000 for the Thurgood Marshall College Fund for the Security Clearance Compliant Recruitment Program Initiative
Subcommittee on Energy and Water:
• $2,000,000 for University of Houston for Center for Clean Fuels and Power Generation
• $750,000 for Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Life Flight Operations Center
• $66,700,000 for the Port of Houston for the Houston-Galveston Navigation Channels Project
• $15,000,000 for University of Houston for National Wind Energy Center
• $2,000,000 for The Thurgood Marshall College Fund for the Minority Science Initiative: Department of Energy
• $1,000,000 for Texas AgriLife Extension Service for Trinity Basin Environmental Restoration Reconnaissance Study
Subcommittee on Homeland Security:
• $500,000 for City of Houston for Houston Emergency Preparedness and Outreach for Special Needs Populations
• $15,000,000 for L.L. Clarkson, Clarkson Aerospace for DHS Minority Leaders Program
Subcommittee on Interior and the Environment:
• $1,500,000 for Freedman's Town and Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Restoration
• $2,000,000 for the Julia Ideson Public Library
• $2,500,000 for Texas Medical Center for Mickey Leland National Air Toxics Research Center
• $5,000,000 for City of Houston, Public Utilities Division for Federal Funding of Awwa Research Foundation
• $1,000,000 for Buffalo Soldiers National Museum for Purchase and Renovation of Historic Houston Light Guard Armory
Subcommittee on Labor/HHS:
• $1,000,000 for Texas Southern University for Special Collections of the Robert James Terry Library
• $484,292 for Harris County Hospital District for Harris County Digital Mammography Units Upgrade
• $700,000 for CHRISTUS Foundation for Healthcare for San Jose Clinic
• $305,000 for University of Houston for Center for Retention of STEM Educators
• $3,000,000 for Texas Engineering and Technical Consortium for Texas Youth in Technology
• $427, 800 for AVANCE Parent Child Education and Family Support
• $1,230,000 for University of Houston for Center for Student Success
• $2,000,000 for Houston Independent School District for College Bound, Beginning at Birth
• $500,000 for Communities In Schools - Houston
• $1,500,000 for Excellent Care Management for Excel-E-Care Workforce Development Center
• $152,451 for Houston Areal Urban League for CI2 Network for Northeast Family YMCA
• $930,000 for Texas A&M Institute for Obesity Research and Program Evaluation for Improving the Nutritional Characteristics and Acceptablity of Whole Grain Foods among Children Participating in the National School Lunch Program
• $500,000 for YMCA of Greater Houston for YMCA Vision
• $200,000 for Project GRAD Houston
• $2,550,000 for The Center for Research on Minority Health (CRMH) and Health Disparities Education, Awareness, Research & Training (HDEART) Consortium
• $2,000,000 for The Thurgood Marshall College Fund for The National Education, Science and Critical Skills Capacity Building Project
• $500,000 for The Children's Museum of Houston for TotSpot Exhibit
• $3,000,000 for University of Texas, Harris County, Psychiatric Center for capital improvements
Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations:
• $2,400,000 for Dikembe Mutumbo Foundation for Foreign Assistance to American Schools and Hospitals Abroad Program
Subcommittee on Transportation, HUD:
• $90,000,000 for Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County for Advanced Transit Program/ METRO Solutions Bus Expansion
• $125,000,000 for Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County for Advanced Transit Program/ METRO Solutions Phase 2
• $4,000,000 for Greater Southeast Management District for Greater Southeast Transit Terminal and Holocaust Museum Diversity Training and Transit Center
• $280,700 for Harris County Hospital District for Houston/Harris County Telephone Nurse Triage Service
• $2,800,000 for Houston Downtown Management District for Clean Fuel Transit Initiative
• $1,584,000 for Texas Medical Center for Intelligent Information System
• $8,000,000 for Texas Medical Center for Intermodal Transit Garage
• $10,000,000 for Texas Dept. of Transportation for Interstate 69
• $1,000,000 for the Veterans Museum in Texas
• $2,000,000 for Port of Houston for Port Road Expansion and Improvements
• $2,000,000 for Texas Medical Center for Transit Circulator System
• $1,000,000 for City of Houston for Urban Corridor Planning & Implementation
• $2,000,000 for City of Houston Public Library for the African American Library at the Gregory School
• $616,000 for the Houston Food Bank for Commodity Supplemental Food Programs
From www.chron.com (Houston Chronicle) Posted by Patrick Brendel at April 4, 2008 04:03 PM
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