Military procurements make up 33 percent of Rep. David Price's earmarks.
As noted previously, the Chapel Hill Democrat asked for $264.6 million in special appropriations in next year's federal budget, according to his official Web site.
All of his requests were for military contractors in North Carolina. He did not seek any direct spending on military bases.
They include $7.5 million for spray-dried blood plasma to treat battlefield injuries, $6 million for optical imaging equipment to detect IEDs, $4.95 million to research treatment for airborne weapons and $4 million for carbon nanotechnology research, among other things.
The 22 requests total $87.5 million. His non-military requests total $177.1 million.
Note: Price included $2.9 million for research on cancer in his defense appropriations because of the costs of health care for military personnel, but we're not including it in his military earmarks.
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Re: Price's military earmarks: $88m
These days and times are a changin and it damn well better reflect those times...meaning...no big clunky weaponry, not aircraft...unless there is a new nano recon fly that can go anywhere and listen in on any convo. So basically there better be infrastructure, base and support money there and that's about it. Nothing for contractors I'm sorry. This is the place we will cut spending people....do not let them slide this by you. They simply wanna do their favors in the shadows so they can cruise off of industrial complex contributions.