According to Congressional Quarterly Roll Call, Alabama's junior senator Katie Britt’s haul was the ninth highest individual collection of earmarks in the Senate. Alabama’s senior Sen. Tommy Tuberville collected a total of $72 million.
As a longtime staff aide to former U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, including as his chief of staff, Katie Britt had the opportunity to learn from the master in securing federal funding for projects in his home state of Alabama.As the Senate prepares its appropriations bills for the 2024 fiscal year, Britt worked to include $232.1 million in federal funding for Alabama projects in a mechanism known as congressionally directed spending – essentially, a fancy phrase for earmarks.
Alabama’s senior Sen. Tommy Tuberville collected a total of $72 million or just 23.6 percent of the state’s haul.That’s down from $656 million in Shelby’s final year in the Senate – a time when he was the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee – but Alabama’s earmarks this year still rank seventh in the country, according to Congressional Quarterly Roll Call.
“As a member of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, I will always use my position to conduct oversight on the federal budget and fight for Alabama’s people, priorities, and values,” Britt said in a statement to AL.com. $20.6 million to revitalize and repair the George W. Andrews Lock and Dam on the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers in Houston County.$18.4 million for dredging, maintenance, and operations on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.
. Brooks noted Shelby’s long tenure on the Appropriations Committee, which included a two-year term as its chair.
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