Oklahoma projects included as "earmarks" in spending bill

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ Twenty Oklahoma projects are earmarked in a congressional spending bill that covers the departments of Health and Human Services and Labor and Education. <br/><br/>Citizens Against

Saturday, August 19th 2006, 2:12 pm

By: News On 6

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ Twenty Oklahoma projects are earmarked in a congressional spending bill that covers the departments of Health and Human Services and Labor and Education.

Citizens Against Government Waste, which has established an online database of ``earmarks'' that can be searched by state, reports there are more than 18-hundred earmarks in the bill.

The Oklahoma projects total more than 6.5 million dollars.

Among the projects listed are: $500,000 for the Oklahoma City Public Schools Foundation to support the ``College for All'' pilot program for at-risk youth; $400,000 for Integris Health Systems for equipment at rural hospitals; and $300,000 for the Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation for community education and outreach programs.