Former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici has been out of office for half a year, but some of his earmarks are still making their way through the Senate and into appropriations bills. Jonathon Allen at CQ Politics notes that a $4 million homeland security appropriation is coming to New Mexico, writing, “it was clearly Domenici’s baby.”

The Albuquerque Republican, who now works at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington D.C., was well known for the massive amounts of federal money he was able to bring into the state.

Allen wrote:

Members of the Senate’s Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee laid claim to more than $143 million of the $156 million in earmarks in the panel’s bill, a staggering degree of self-help, even in the world of appropriations.

Of the remaining $13 million, $4 million went to a project in New Mexico that was long supported by former subcommittee member Pete Domenici, a Republican who retired in January. The earmark is attributed to the state’s two senators, Democrats Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, but it was clearly Domenici’s baby.