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Billions, and more, for lawmakers’ projects in spending bill

FILE - Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., meets with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, March 29, 2022. An analysis by The Associated Press found there were 4,975 home-district projects for members of Congress, worth $9.7 billion, in the government-wide $1.5 trillion bill President Joe Biden signed recently. Schumer had 203 projects for New York. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) FILE - Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, is asked by reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 13, 2020. Shelby attained $126 million, in the government-wide $1.5 trillion bill President Joe Biden signed recently, for two campuses of the University of Alabama, his alma mater, including for an endowment for its flagship Tuscaloosa campus to hire science and engineering faculty. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) FILE - The Autherine Lucy Clock Tower at the Malone Hood Plaza stands in front of Foster Auditorium on the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa, Ala., June 16, 2019. Home-district projects for members of Congress are back, sprinkled across the government-wide $1.5 trillion bill President Joe Biden signed recently. Retiring Sen. Richard Shelby attained $126 million, in the government-wide $1.5 trillion bill President Joe Biden signed recently, for two campuses of the University of Alabama, his alma mater, including for an endowment for its flagship Tuscaloosa campus to hire science and engineering faculty. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes, File) FILE - A boat heads out from the Flamingo boat ramp May 4, 2020, in Everglades National Park in Florida. Home-district projects for members of Congress are back, sprinkled across the government-wide $1.5 trillion bill President Joe Biden signed recently, including $350 million to help restore Florida's vast but imperiled Everglades. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)