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PLEASE NOTE: EarmarkWatch is an experimental distributed research project that contains data for Fiscal Year 2008 earmarks from the House and Senate Labor-HHS-Education bills and the 2008 House Defense Bill.

It does not contain 2009 earmarks. Congress released earmark disclosures for an omnibus bill that included three of the twelve regular appropriations bills—Defense, Homeland Security, and Military Construction/Veterans Affairs—for fiscal year 2009.

A downloadable spreadsheet listing those earmarks is available from Taxpayers for Common Sense (xls).

“$2,000,000 to Gentex Corporation for Modular Advanced Helmet Vision System”

Sponsor:  

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Recipient Web Site:  Recipient Address:  (Flag)
600 North Centennial St.
Zeeland, MI
49464
Recipient address as provided by Sponsor(s): (courtesy of Taxpayers for Common Sense)
1444 North Farnsworth Street Aurora, IL
Short Description of Recipient Organization: 
"Gentex develops advanced electro-optical products - electronic devices combining photoelectric sensors and related electronic circuitry. We're the world's leading supplier of electrochromic, automatic-dimming rearview mirrors for the automotive industry, and develop advanced smoke detectors and signaling devices for the commercial fire-protection market." - Gentex Corporation website
Are Top Personnel Listed on the Site? 
Yes
Is the Project Mentioned on the Site? 
No
Does the Recipient have Federal Contracts? 
Yes
Link to the Recipient's Federal Contracts (Fedspending.org):  Does the Recipient have Federal Grants? 
No
Have employees of the recipient collectively contributed more than $20,000 to candidates for federal office during the current and last election cycle?: 
No
Does a sponsoring member take credit? 
N/A
Did the recipient hire federal lobbyists? 
Yes
URL of Lobbying Data from OpenSecrets  Research contributed by:
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Comments, notes, additional research...

vicco413 wrote:

Once again we find our elected officials submitting requests for monies that have not been planned for. It is funny, we can't get EMERGENCY MONEY to Katrina victims. Emergency Money for Emergency Situations. This is what the line item requests should be used for. Not to fill gaps or make up for cuts that were made to budgets earlier. PLAN and JUSTIFY the dollars within budgets.
Bonuses , Benefits and Stock Dividends should be limited in relation to companies that are given contracts from our NOT FOR PROFIT GOVERNMENT.

posted December 21, 2007 at 6:51 p.m.



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