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*This is the amount requested both alone and with other members of Congress. Tom Coburn (R) of Oklahoma, who co-sponsored the legislation, also has a list of the disclosed earmarks in the omnibus bill on his website. He has been called the quiet persuader for good reason. The watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense used the database to compile this ranking. Thad Cochran will go down as one of the greatest leaders in our states history. The earmark process became more transparent with the 2006 Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, which required creation of a database of all government spending. And a special election to fill the last two years of retiring Sen. Senators Cochran and Wicker, the top earmarkers in the omnibus bill, asked for more than 30 million in watershed improvements for the Yazoo Basin in northwestern Mississippi more than 20. The following senators have been ranked by the monetary value of earmarks they backed, whether alone or with others, in the now-scuttled omnibus spending bill. Republican Roger Wicker was projected to win the race at the top of the ballot. William Thad Cochran was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States Senator for Mississippi from 1978 until his resignation due to. Senator Roger Wicker, (R-Miss.) served alongside Cochran in his last years in office, and called him one of the greatest champions Mississippi has ever known.

Senate leaders decided to scrap a 1,900-page omnibus spending bill that contained $8 billion in home state spending projects – otherwise known as earmarks, pet projects, or "pork." Government spending and the deficit became an issue in the midterm election, and lawmakers are keenly aware of voter anger about large, catch-all bills that are quickly passed.