Starting at the bottom!

10.) Daniel Inouye

State: Hawaii

Party: Democrat

Amount in Solo Earmarks: $46,380,205

Sample Earmarks:

$2,400,000 for Maui Community College Remote Rural Hawaii Job Training Project

$238,000 for the Polynesian Voyaging Society, Honolulu, HI, for educational programs

9.) Mitch McConnell

State: Kentucky

Party: Republican

Amount in Solo Earmarks: $51,186,000

Sample Earmarks:

$1.6 million for a forage animal production research laboratory in Lexington,KY

$1.088 million for an animal waste management research lab in Bowling Green

8.) James Inhofe

State: Oklahoma

Party: Republican

Amount in Solo Earmarks: $53,133,500

Sample Earmarks:

$500,000 Ada Public Works Authority, Wastewater Lift Station

$274,000 Animal Waste Management, OK

7.) Tom Harkin

State: Iowa

Party: Democrat

Amount in Solo Earmarks: $66,860,000

Sample Earmarks:

$1,791,000 Swine Odor and Manure Management Research, Ames, IA

$5,471,000 Iowa Department of Education to continue the Harkin grant program

6.) Lisa Murkowski

State: Alaska

Party: Republican

Amount in Solo Earmarks: $74,000,750

Sample Earmarks:

$19,642,000 Denali Commission to support health projects and economic development activities for the arctic region under the Denali Commission Act of 1998

$20,000,000 Olympic Nat'l Park (Elwha)

5.) Thad Cochran

State: Mississippi

Party: Republican

Amount in Solo Earmarks: $75,908,475

Sample Earmarks:

$1,900,000 Hattiesburg 4th Street Improvements, MS

$26,000,000 Delta Health Alliance, Inc. to improve the delivery of public health services in the Mississippi Delta region under title III of the Public Health Service Act

4.) Dianne Feinstein

State: California

Party: Democrat

Amount in Solo Earmarks: $76,899,425

Sample Earmarks:

$40,000,000 California Bay-Delta Restoration Program

$5,022,000 San Joaquin River, Port of Stockton, CA

3.) Kit Bond

State: Missouri

Party: Republican

Amount in Solo Earmarks: $85,691,491

Sample Earmarks:

$950,000 World Trade Center of St. Louis, MO

$3,500,000 St. Louis Flood Protection, MO

2.) Richard Shelby

State: Alabama

Party: Republican

Amount in Solo Earmarks: $114,484,250

Sample Earmarks:

$800,000 Oyster rehabilitation, AL

$3,800,000 City of Tuscaloosa Downtown Revitalization Project -University Blvd and Greensboro Avenue, AL

1.) Robert Byrd

State: West Virginia

Party: Democrat

Amount in Solo Earmarks: $122,804,900

Sample Earmarks:

$2,673,000 Wood Education and Resource Center

$2,600,000 New River Gorge Nat'l River

4 Democrats and 6 Republicans!

After all that noise made by the Republican Party!

What a bunch of hypocrites.

and who signed for them???

The Senate did!



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doesn't the president sign the final bill?

How old are you?

First it has to pass both the House and the Senate.
Then the President signs it.
If he vetos it. It goes back for another vote.
It then must recieve a two-thirds majority by both the House and the Senate.
If it does it becomes law without the President ever seeing it again.

I think that is what I was getting at...in case you didn't catch on. I know how it works...I was asking to make a point

Your point is lost!

No, her point is not "lost". Your point is lost not realizing that it passed by the entire senate and it made of 56 dems and 41 republicans, clearly a dem-majority. So instead of arguing about in a dem-republican terms, you should be seeing that it doesn't matter what party the person belongs to, corruption is equal on both sides.

I think the point should be that they're all essentially whores. They will do almost anything for money and it's always a "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" situation. Whether it be dems in majority or republicans, they've always been corrupt and everyone is to blame.

btw, fanta, the stink came from both sides. the republicans became more vocal after the last election because of all the promises from Obama about no more pork and then you have the "stimulus" bill and that last appropriations bill that was loaded as well - from both parties, although, far more from the democrats as they are in power... that's more than expected. It's just like how there was more republican pork between 2000 and 2006.

you left out the inaction on the president can also cause it to pass