The $1.1 trillion spending bill making its way through Congress this week includes $154 million in earmarks requested by Connecticut’s delegation, according to a database compiled by Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn.
Outgoing Sen. Chris Dodd requested or co-requested $120 million of the earmarks, or 78 percent of the total. Sen. Joe Lieberman put his name on $106 million in requests.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3rd, led the House delegation with $50 million in requests, followed by Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd, requesting $30 million. Rep. John Larson, D-1st, requested $23 million.
Reps. Jim Himes, D-4th, and Chris Murphy, D-5th, lagged behind their colleagues with only $6 million in requests each.
The largest earmark, co-sponsored by Courtney, DeLauro, Dodd and Lieberman, would bring $12.9 million to New London for Submarine Group Two Headquarters, according to the database.
Dodd requested $7.6 million for a National Security Human Rights Strategy. According to a document on Dodd’s website, the project’s intended recipient is the University of Connecticut in Storrs.
“Funding would be used to support human rights initiatives within the Department of Defense,” the document says. “The University of Connecticut has a record of excellence and expertise in this subject matter that would help inform and guide human rights program and policies at the Department of Defense.”
Along with Lieberman, Dodd also requested $6.4 million for Electric Boat in Groton to research how to integrate unmanned vehicles into submarines.
Both senators also requested $6 million in Environmental Protection Agency funding for a Long Island Sound program.
Lieberman and Dodd joined with DeLauro to request $5.6 million for the National Center for Integrated Civilian-Military Domestic Disaster Medical Response, founded in 2006, part of the Yale New Haven Health System.
Other earmarks for more than $2.5 million:
- $6.4 million for the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology in East Hartford (Larson)
- $4.8 million for Ansonia Copper & Brass in Waterbury (Dodd)
- An additional $4.8 million for Electric Boat (Dodd and Lieberman)
- $4 million for Goodrich Pump and Engine Control Systems in West Hartford (Dodd and Lieberman)
- $3.6 million for the U.S. Agriculture Research Service facility in Storrs (DeLauro)
- $3.2 million for Hamilton Sundstrand in Windsor Locks (Dodd and Lieberman)
- $3.2 million for the University of Hartford (Courtney, Dodd, Larson and Lieberman)
- $2.9 million for the Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative in New London
- $2.5 million for the University of Connecticut Health Center (Murphy and Lieberman)