Thread: Not one penny?

Shelby, as the longtime Senate Republican appropriations leader, had a particularly outsized influence in the drafting of the gargantuan legislation. Here are the earmarks he put into the bill:

• $13 million for the Abbeville Municipal Airport Runway Extension
• $26 million for the Tuscaloosa National Airport (TCL) Runway Extension
• $100 million for the Woosley Finnell Bridge
• $200 million for the Alabama State Port Authority Intermodal and Terminal Expansion
• $50 million for a Revolving Loan Fund to benefit the city of Mobile, Alabama
• $35 million for the Marion Military Institute
• $45 million for the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
• $2.6 million for the Deepening Study for Tennessee—Tombigbee Waterway (TTWW), AL and MS and Black Warrior and Tombigbee (BWT) Rivers; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• $6.7 million for the Alabama River Lakes, AL; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• $356 million for the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers, GA, AL & FL; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
• $7.25 million for the Black Warrior & Tombigbee Rivers (BWT), AL; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• $7 million for the Dauphin Island Bay, AL; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• $250,000 for the Jim Woodruff Lock and Dam, Lake Seminole, FL, AL & GA; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• $2.25 million for The University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, AL, for a permanent endowment fund to support the recruitment and retention of exceptional faculty in science and engineering.
• $35 million for the Spring Hill College, AL, for facilities and equipment
• $76 million for the UAB Heersink School of Medicine, AL, for facilities and equipment
• $50 million for the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, AL, for a permanent endowment fund to support the recruitment and retention of exceptional faculty in science and engineering.

And we need only 12 million to rebuild the pier.

Originally Posted by DKillgore

And we need only 12 million to rebuild the pier.

I mean... I understand some things, but ... $92 million for the school and $126 million for the County?

• $45 million for the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
• $100 million for the Woosley Finnell Bridge (Girder bridge in Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
• $26 million for the Tuscaloosa National Airport
• $2.25 million for The University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
• $50 million for the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, AL

Richard Shelby Education: [COLOR=var(--osevc)]The University of Alabama [/COLOR]