Why They’ve Gotta Go

Fox News recently reported on the top 20 Senators with earmarks in the upcoming $410,000,000,000 budget package.  We’ve featured a few on this site already and will eventually get to all of them.  The original data came from the Taxpayers for Common Sense web site.

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Here are the 20 spendtrift Senators (12 Democrats, 8 Republican):

1. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va.,  — $122,804,900  – 9th term, 50 years
2. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala. — $114,484,250 – 4th term, 22 years
3. Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo. — $85,691,491 – 4th term, 22 years
4. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. — $76,899,425 – 3rd term, 17 years
5. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss. — $75,908,475  – 6th term, 31 years
6. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska — $74,000,750  – 2nd term, 7 years
7. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa — $66,860,000 – 4th term, 24 years
8. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. — $53,133,500  – 3rd term, 15 years
9. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. — $51,186,000 – 4th term, 24 years
10. Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii — $46,380,205 – 8th term, 46 years
11. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. — $39,228,250 – 3rd term, 16 years
12. Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D. — $36,547,100 – 3rd term, 17 years
13. Sen. Pat Leahy, D-Vt. — $36,161,125 – 6th term, 34 years
14. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. — $35,577,250 – 3rd term, 12 years
15. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa. — $27,169,750 – 1st term, 2 years
16. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev. — $26,628,613 – 4th term, 22 years
17. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. — $25,320,000 – 5th term, 29 years
18. Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis. — $23,832,000 – 4th term, 20 years
19. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. — $21,952,250 – 2nd term, 10 years
20. Former Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M. — $19,588,625 (has been replaced by Tom Udall, a 1st term Senator).