Earmark Database

Since 1991, Citizens Against Government Waste has chronicled how lawmakers have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on pork-barrel spending through the process of congressional earmarking. CAGW’s Earmark Database collects almost 30 years of work identifying wasteful spending projects and makes the information available online in one searchable database for the very first time. The earmark database is a powerful tool for lawmakers, citizens, and researchers alike.
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FY State Cost Description Status Chamber Appropriation House Senate
2017 $15,000,000 Medical advanced technology – peer-reviewed neurofibromatosis research (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) ABR DEF
2017 $42,000,000 Weapons and munitions advanced technology – program increase (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) ABR DEF
2017 $21,000,000 Weapons and munitions advanced technology – accelerate extended range cannon artillery (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) ABR DEF
2017 $15,000,000 Weapons and munitions advanced technology – laser defense system for small UAS (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) ABR DEF
2017 $30,000,000 Weapons and munitions advanced technology – high energy laser research (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) ABR DEF
2017 $30,000,000 Combat vehicle and automotive advanced technology – program increase (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) ABR DEF
2017 $30,000,000 Missile and rocket advanced technology – program increase (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) ABR DEF
2017 $45,000,000 High performance computing modernization program – program increase (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) ABR DEF
2017 $5,000,000 Army missile defense systems integration – high power microwave analysis and radio frequency platform protection (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) ABR DEF
2017 $25,000,000 Army missile defense systems integration – program increase (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) ABR DEF
2017 $8,000,000 Army missile defense systems integration – high energy laser research (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) ABR DEF
2017 $8,000,000 All source analysis system – program increase (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) ABR DEF
2017 $10,000,000 Munitions standardization, effectiveness and safety – munitions standardization, effectiveness, and safety (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) ABR DEF
2017 $15,000,000 Munitions standardization, effectiveness and safety – program increase (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) ABR DEF
2017 $10,000,000 Aviation survivability – program increase (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Navy) ABR DEF
2017 $10,000,000 Lightweight torpedo development – program increase – small business technology insertion (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Navy) ABR DEF
2017 $6,000,000 Medical development – program increase – military dental research (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Navy) ABR DEF
2017 $9,000,000 Consolidated training systems development – program increase – project 0604 training range enhancements (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Navy) ABR DEF
2017 $10,000,000 MK-48 ADCAP – program increase (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Navy) ABR DEF
2017 $17,000,000 Advanced materials for weapon systems – program increase – metals affordability research (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Air Force) ABR DEF
2017 $10,000,000 Manufacturing technology program – program increase – additive manufacturing (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Air Force) ABR DEF
2017 $5,000,000 Technology transfer – program increase (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Air Force) ABR DEF
2017 $10,500,000 Operationally responsive space – program increase – maintain fiscal year 2016 funding level (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Air Force) ABR DEF
2017 $12,000,000 Agile combat support – program increase (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Air Force) ABR DEF
2017 $10,000,000 Airborne reconnaissance systems – program increase – wide area surveillance (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Air Force) ABR DEF
2017 $10,000,000 Historically black colleges and universities – program increase (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Defense Wide) ABR DEF
2017 $42,500,000 Combating terrorism technology support – program increase – Israeli tunneling (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Defense Wide) ABR DEF
2017 $29,000,000 Special operations advanced technology – program increase (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Defense Wide) ABR DEF
2017 $10,000,000 Department of Defense corrosion program (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Defense Wide) ABR DEF
2017 $4,000,000 Peer-reviewed alcohol and substance abuse disorders research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF
2017 $7,500,000 Peer-reviewed ALS research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF
2017 $15,000,000 Peer-reviewed Alzheimer research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF
2017 $7,500,000 Peer-reviewed autism research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF
2017 $3,000,000 Peer-reviewed bone marrow failure disease research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF
2017 $120,000,000 Peer-reviewed breast cancer research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF
2017 $60,000,000 Peer-reviewed cancer research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF
2017 $3,200,000 Peer-reviewed Duchenne muscular dystrophy research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF
2017 $7,500,000 Peer-reviewed epilepsy research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF
2017 $20,000,000 Peer-reviewed Gulf War illness research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF
2017 $10,000,000 Peer-reviewed hearing restoration research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF
2017 $10,000,000 Peer-reviewed kidney cancer research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF
2017 $12,000,000 Peer-reviewed lung cancer research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF
2017 $5,000,000 Peer-reviewed lupus research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF
2017 $300,000,000 Peer-reviewed medical research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF
2017 $6,000,000 Peer-reviewed multiple sclerosis research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF
2017 $30,000,000 Peer-reviewed orthopedic research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF
2017 $20,000,000 Peer-reviewed ovarian cancer research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF
2017 $90,000,000 Peer-reviewed prostate cancer research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF
2017 $30,000,000 Peer-reviewed spinal cord research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF
2017 $12,000,000 Peer-reviewed reconstructive transplant research (Defense Health Program) ABR DEF

Legend

Status ABR – Above president's budget request
NBR – No budget request by president
Chamber C – Inserted in conference committee
H – Inserted in the House
S – Inserted in the Senate
HS – Inserted in the House and Senate
Appropriation AG – Agriculture
COM – Commerce
DEF – Defense
FINSER – Financial Services
FOROP – Foreign Operations
HS – Homeland Security
INT – Interior
LEG – Legislative
MILCON – Military Construction
THUD – Transportation/HUD
VAHUD – VA/HUD