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
2012 $2,000,000 Navigation (Additional Funding for Ongoing Work) (Corps of Engineers – Investigations) NBR S ENERGY
2012 $10,000,000 Coastal and Deep-Draft (Additional Funding for Ongoing Work) (Corps of Engineers – Investigations) NBR S ENERGY
2012 $3,000,000 Inland (Additional Funding for Ongoing Work) (Corps of Engineers – Investigations) NBR S ENERGY
2012 $1,500,000 Small, Remote, or Subsistence (Additional Funding for Ongoing Work) (Corps of Engineers – Investigations) NBR S ENERGY
2012 $1,240,000 Other authorized project purposes (Additional Funding for Ongoing Work) (Corps of Engineers – Investigations) NBR ENERGY
2012 $1,000,000 Environmental restoration or compliance (Additional Funding for Ongoing Work) (Corps of Engineers – Investigations) NBR S ENERGY
2012 $2,000,000 Remote, coastal, or small watershed (Additional Funding for Ongoing Work) (Corps of Engineers – Investigations) NBR S ENERGY
2012 IL $10,084,000 Chicago sanitary and ship canal dispersal barrier, IL (Corps of Engineers – Construction) NBR ENERGY
2012 $19,772,000 Flood and storm damage reduction (Additional Funding for Ongoing Work) (Corps of Engineers – Construction) NBR ENERGY
2012 $59,316,000 Flood control (Additional Funding for Ongoing Work) (Corps of Engineers – Construction) NBR S ENERGY
2012 $39,544,000 Shore protection (Additional Funding for Ongoing Work) (Corps of Engineers – Construction) NBR S ENERGY
2012 $74,145,000 Navigation (Additional Funding for Ongoing Work) (Corps of Engineers – Construction) NBR ENERGY
2012 $7,909,000 Other authorized project purposes (Additional Funding for Ongoing Work) (Corps of Engineers – Construction) NBR ENERGY
2012 $8,897,000 Environmental restoration or compliance (Additional Funding for Ongoing Work) (Corps of Engineers – Construction) NBR S ENERGY
2012 $29,660,000 Environmental infrastructure (Additional Funding for Ongoing Work) (Corps of Engineers – Construction) NBR S ENERGY
2012 $13,840,000 Hydropower (Additional Funding for Ongoing Work) (Corps of Engineers – Construction) NBR S ENERGY
2012 $3,000,000 Aquatic plant control (Corps of Engineers – Construction) NBR S ENERGY
2012 $7,909,000 Aquatic ecosystem restoration (Continuing Authorities Program) (Corps of Engineers – Construction) NBR S ENERGY
2012 $3,954,000 Beneficial use of dredged material (Continuing Authorities Program) (Corps of Engineers – Construction) NBR S ENERGY
2012 $3,954,000 Emergency streambank and shoreline protection (Continuing Authorities Program) (Corps of Engineers – Construction) NBR S ENERGY
2012 $18,783,000 Flood control projects (Continuing Authorities Program) (Corps of Engineers – Construction) NBR S ENERGY
2012 $2,966,000 Mitigation of shore damages (Continuing Authorities Program) (Corps of Engineers – Construction) NBR S ENERGY
2012 $2,966,000 Navigation program (Continuing Authorities Program) (Corps of Engineers – Construction) NBR S ENERGY
2012 $7,909,000 Project modifications for improvement of the environment (Continuing Authorities Program) (Corps of Engineers – Construction) NBR S ENERGY
2012 $989,000 Shore protection (Continuing Authorities Program) (Corps of Engineers – Construction) NBR S ENERGY
2012 $5,000,000 Dredging (Mississippi River and Tributaries) NBR S ENERGY
2010 MN $200,000 Soybean Genomics, St. Paul (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses) AG Walz Klobuchar
2010 Multi-State $4,841,000 Wood Utilization, AK, ID, LA, ME, MI, MN, MS, NC, OR, TN, WV (National Institute of Food and Agriculture: Special Research Grants) AG Butterfield; DeFazio; Harper; Michaud; Miller (NC); Oberstar; Price (NC); Rogers (MI); Schrader; Wu Burr; Byrd; Cochran; Collins; Crapo; Klobuchar; Landrieu; Levin; Risch; Snowe; Stabenow; Wicker; Wyden
2010 IN $92,000 City of Gary, Law enforcement equipment for the Gary Police Department (COPS – Law Enforcement Technology) COM Visclosky
2010 WV $187,000 Community Connections, Inc., Bluefield, Southern West Virginia Community Coalition Outreach and SADD Outreach Campaign (Juvenile Justice) COM Rahall
2010 NJ $400,000 Big Brothers Big Sisters Foundation of New Jersey, Parsippany, New Jersey Mentoring Initiative (Juvenile Justice) COM LoBiondo; Pallone; Payne; Sires Lautenberg; Menendez
2010 PA $90,000 Township of Spring, Reading, PA Video Recorder System Purchase (COPS – Law Enforcement Technology) COM Gerlach
2010 PA $200,000 Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, Institute for Violence Research and Prevention (Juvenile Justice) COM Brady (PA); Gerlach Specter
2010 NY $850,000 PAX/Real Solutions to Gun Violence, New York City, Speak Up Hotline and Awareness Campaign Access Expansion (Juvenile Justice) COM Gillibrand
2010 SC $1,600,000 Next Generation High Strength Glass Fibers for Ballistic Armor Applications (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) DEF Wilson (SC)   Graham  
2010 FL $2,900,000 Florida Counter-Drug Program (Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities) DEF Putnam; Brown, Corrine (FL); Young (FL)   Nelson (FL)  
2010 MA $2,400,000 Military Low Vision Research (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) DEF Lynch; Capuano   Kerry  
2010 SD $2,400,000 Renewable Jet Fuel from Lignocellulosic Feedstocks (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) DEF Herseth Sandlin   Johnson; Thune  
2010 SC $2,000,000 Detection and Remediation of Bio / Chemical Weapons Program (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) DEF Clyburn  
2010 $2,300,000 Repair of Military Asset Storage Facilities (Operation and Maintenance – Army Reserve National Guard) DEF Byrd  
2010 $2,700,000 Autonomous Unmanned Surface Vehicle (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) DEF Akaka  
2010 $500,000 Hospital lighting retrofit (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) ENERGY Rush
2010 $1,000,000 Center for Energy Storage Research (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) ENERGY Johnson, Sam
2010 $500,000 Fusion energy spheromak turbulent plasma experiment (Department of Energy: Science) ENERGY Boyd; Meek (FL); Wasserman Schultz
2010 NV $800,000 Algal-based renewable energy for Nevada (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) ) ENERGY Reid
2010 AL $335,000 Northeast Alabama Community College, Rainsville, for industrial systems technology and machining training (Small Business Administration) FINSER Aderholt
2010 $2,000,000 Emerald ash borer (US Forest Service – State and Private Forestry) NBR INT
2010 Multi-State $1,000,000 U.S.—Mexico Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program (AZ, NM) (USGS – Surveys, Investigations & Research) INT Grijalva; Pastor (AZ) Bingaman
2010 MS $275,000 City of Carthage for a wastewater improvements and rehabilitation project (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants – Water and Wastewater Infrastructure) INT Cochran; Wicker
2010 MD $575,000 Baltimore City Mayor’s Office of Employment Development, Baltimore, MD, for YouthWorks (Labor – Employment and Training Administration) LABHHS Sarbanes Mikulski

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