Louisiana Earmark Requests: Ask You Get, Don't You Won't....

Senators Vitter and Landrieu are requesting almost $5 billion in Appropriation Spending - "earmarks" - and now, each requesting Senator must post on their website what they are asking for and why. Keep in mind though, these are requests, the Appropriations Committee has yet to allocate their FY2010 federal funds.

Senator Vitter's Acadiana requests:
$100,000 to the City of Crowley Police Department to construct an emergency operations facility
$400,000 to Lafayette Consolidated Government for a mobile data terminal and mobile radio replacements
$2,500,000 to Lafayette Consolidated Government for drinking water line relocations and sanitary sewerage collection system relocations and upgrades
$1,400,000 to C&C Technologies to develop sensor enhancements for the Navy’s semi-submersive UUV
$4,000,000 to Gravois Aluminum Boats of Jeanerette for National Defence Force Protection Boats
$2,000,000 to the Lafayette Airport Commission for infrastructure construction
$1,500,000 to the City of Opelousas for I49 / US190 interchange construction
$2,400,000 to the Army Corps of Engineers in Iberia Parish for the Port
$10,400,000 to the Port of Iberia for dredging
$1,500,000 to Dr. Robert Stewart of UL to study carbon-rich waste streams
$1,200,000 to Vermilion Parish for Bayou Teche dredging
$415,000 to Vermilion Parish for debris removal
$27,000,000 to Southwest Louisiana / Calcasieu River for port and waterway improvements


Senator Landrieu's Acadiana requests
$400,000 to Lafayette Consolidated Government for mobile upgrades for the police
$4,000,000 to Gravois Aluminum Boats of Jeanerette for National Defence Force Protection Boats
$2,000,000 to C&C Technologies to develop sensor enhancements for the Navy’s semi-submersive UUV
$5,200,000 to Iberia Parish to dredge the Bayou Teche
$10,400,000 to the Port of Iberia for dredging
$15,660,000 to the City of Lafayette to relocate water and sewer lines for the Verot Road widening project
$30,000,000 to the City of New Iberia for sanitary sewer improvements
$250,000 to Iberia Parish to backfill two holding ponds no longer being used
$5,000,000 to Iberia Parish for Acadiana Regional Airport sewage projects
$910,000 to the City of Crowley to renovate the Grand Opera House
$1,000,000 to the City of Jennings for an Oil and Gas Museum
$1,500,000 to the Acadiana Outreach Center to build a mixed income housing development
$1,000,000 to the City of Opelousas for Transportation
$3,000,000 to Iberia Parish for Eagle Park improvements
$10,000,000 to Iberia Parish for road resurfacing
$980,000 to the City of Lafayette for Airport runway improvements
$7,500,000 to Iberia Parish for the Lewis Street road widening project
$1,000,000 to the City of New Iberia to build a multi-use conference center
$10,900,000 to Iberia Parish for road improvements
$1,000,000 to the Town of Sunset to construct a Town Hall

The Times-Picayune has a full story.

Click here to see all of Senator Vitter's appropriations requests
Click here to see all of Senator Landrieu's appropriations requests