It’s slow going looking through the earmarks, but here’s a few – some are repeat customers and some are rookie earmarks. More to follow.

Rep. Pelosi (D-CA) obtained $1,500,000 for the Presidio Heritage Center.

Sen. Stevens (R-AK) obtained $2 million for Hibernation Genomics, a project at University of Alaska – Fairbanks that is investigating using hibernation as technique to preventing and treating trauma from injury and ischemia for battlefield conditions.

Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) obtained $24.5 million for the National Drug Intelligence Center which has been criticized as redundant of existing facilities and for mismanagement. In previous year, the Administration has attempted to shut down NDIC and merge it with existing facilities.

Sen. Bond (R-MO) obtained $800,000 Pseudofoliculitis Barbae (PFB) Topical Treatment – this goes to ISW Group in St. Louis, MO, a privately held pharmaceutical company.

Sen. Lieberman (I-CT) and Rep. Chris Murphy (D-CT) obtained $15 million for Waterbury Industrial Commons Redevelopment Initiative. This would clean up a decades old munitions factory to be used as a city-owned industrial park. For the last several years, the State of Connecticut has not provided funding for the project, concentrating on other priorities. According to the Fairfield Weekly, “After striking out in Hartford, Jarjura, the Waterbury mayor, recently turned to Washington for help. He and Congressman Chris Murphy (D-5) are seeking cleanup money from the Pentagon using a little tested approach: The Defense Department funded production of the ammunition; it should fund the cleanup.” The town hired a lobbyist that was Deputy Campaign Manager for Sen. Lieberman’s reelection in 2006 and Congress kicked in $15 million.

http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=8668

http://panuzio.com/giordano.htm

Sen. Shelby (R-AL) and Rep. Aderholt obtained $1.6 million for SAIC’s High Fidelity Virtual Simulation and Analysis program which uses simulation software to reduce the amount of time it takes a soldier to receive operational support in the field.

Sen. Levin (D-MI) obtained $1.6 million for Low Temperature Vehicle Performance Research at Wayne State University, double what the program received in FY08.