The traditional partisan earmark split was maintained. Of earmarks requested by only Republicans or only Democrats, the old 60/40 majority/minority ratio largely remains true; the split this year was 56 percent ($5.4 billion) for the majority Democrats and 44 percent ($4.2 billion) for the Republican minority. Earmarks with bipartisan support totaled an additional $5.2 billion. The rest were undisclosed. An additional $19.3 billion in earmarks were proposed by the President in his budget.

In FY08, TCS found that 57 percent of the earmarked dollars went to the majority.

Top 10 House Earmark Recipients, Solo Requests:

66 Alexander, Rodney $151.8M

53 Edwards, Chet $150.3M

70 Cramer, Young $104.3M

46 Rogers, Harold $58.0M