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
2009 LA $2,505,000 U.S. Agricultural Research Service Sugarcane Research Laboratory; Houma (Agricultural Research Service: Buildings and Facilities) AG Melancon, Charlie Landrieu, Vitter
2009 NM $176,000 Soil-borne Disease Prevention in Irrigated Agriculture (Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service: Special Research Grants) AG Bingaman, Domenici
2009 CA $215,000 City of Baldwin Park Police Department Interoperable/Improvement Radio Project Baldwin Parle (COPS – Law Enforcement Technology) COM Solis, Hilda L.
2009 MA $300,000 Shakespeare and Company Shakespeare and Company's Educational Programming to Assist At-Risk Students Lenox (Juvenile Justice) COM Olver, John W. Kennedy, Kerry
2009 RI $1,000,000 Save the Bay for a middle-school youth program to study, cleanup. and preserve Narragansett Bay Providence (NOAA – Operations, Research and Facilities) COM Kennedy, Patrick J. Reed, Whitehouse
2009 PA $750,000 Allegheny County for security cameras and a threat viewer emergency management visualization system Allegheny County (Byrne Discretionary Grants) COM Doyle, Michael F. Specter
2009 AR $65,000 St. Francis County Sheriff St. Francis County. AR Methamphetamine Enforcement and Eradication Forrest City (COPS – Methamphetamine) COM Berry, Marion
2009 VT $1,000,000 Burlington Technical Center to upgrade and improve the post-secondary aviation program Burlington (NASA) COM Leahy
2009 $2,400,000 Soldier Worn Gunshot Detection System (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) DEF Visclosky
2009 $2,500,000 Health Informatics Initiative (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) DEF Putnam, Castor, Young (FL)
2009 $2,000,000 Infections Disease Research (AMNH) for Defense Research Sciences (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) DEF Lowey, Nadler
2009 SD $800,000 Behavior and Neuroscience, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Project (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) DEF Herseth Sandlin
2009 WY $2,880,000 Multicontinuum Technology for Space Structures (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) DEF Cubin Enzi
2009 WI $1,600,000 LSD-41/49 Diesel Engine Low Load Upgrade Kit (Other Procurement – Navy) DEF Baldwin Kohl
2009 AK $10,000,000 11th Air Force Consolidated Command Center (Operation and Maintenance – Air Force) DEF Stevens
2009 MD $3,500,000 Maryland Proof of Concept Alliance for Defense Technologies (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) DEF Mikulski
2009 IN $951,500 Purdue Hydrogen Technologies Program (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) ENERGY Visclosky; Peter J. Lugar
2009 FL $191,000 Lee County (Corps of Engineers: Construction) ENERGY Mack, Connie Bill Nelson, Martinez
2009 PA $351,104 Fuel cell optimization and scale up (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) ENERGY Dent, Charles W.
2009 $100,000 FPMS: MON-MAQ dam removal study and local flood plain master planning, Monticello ENERGY Grassley
2009 IA $500,000 Iowa Valley Community College for an education and training center (Small Business Administration) FINSER Latham
2009 DE $300,000 City of Newark (FEMA Predisaster Mitigation) HS Castle Biden
2009 SD $150,000 Days of '76 Museum (artifacts), Deadwood (National Park Service – Save America's Treasures) INT Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie Johnson
2009 CA $2,000,000 Angeles National Forest (US Forest Service – Land Acquisition) INT Feinstein
2009 MO $285,000 University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, for its Midwest Clinic for Autism Spectrum Disorders (HHS – Child Abuse Prevention) LABHHS Skelton, Ike
2009 TX $238,000 Brownsville Campus—University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health, Brownsville, for studies regarding the health of the Hispanic population in the Rio Grande Valley (HHS – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) LABHHS Ortiz, Solomon P. Cornyn
2009 OH $285,000 Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council, Cleveland, for the Union Construction Industry Partnership Skills Achievement Program (Labor – Employment and Training Administration) LABHHS Kucinich, Dennis J. Brown
2009 CA $309,000 San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council, San Diego, for training of at-risk youth and recently separated veterans (Labor – Employment and Training Administration) LABHHS Filner, Bob Boxer
2009 NC $190,000 Halifax Community College, Weldon, for facilities and equipment (HHS – HRSA Health Facilities and Services) LABHHS Butterfield, G, K.
2009 MT $714,000 HealthShare Montana, Bozeman, for equipment and training (HHS – HRSA Health Facilities and Services) LABHHS Tester, Baucus
2009 NY $143,000 Catholic Health System, Buffalo, for equipment (HHS – HRSA Health Facilities and Services) LABHHS Schumer
2009 IA $238,000 Loras College, Dubuque, for literacy programs (Education: Elementary and Secondary Education) LABHHS Harkin
2009 NC $57,900,000 Hospital Renovation & MRI addition, Camp Lejeune (Defense Wide) MILCON House Committee on Appropriations
2009 OH $237,500 State Street Repaving, Zanesville (Surface Transportation Priorities) THUD Space Voinovich
2009 DC $950,000 National Council of La Raza, Washington for capitalization of a revolving loan fund to be used for nationwide community development activities (Economic Development Initiative) THUD Pastor; Olver; Roybal-Allard; Walsh; Gutierrez; Hinojosa
2009 NY $190,000 Town of Penfield for improvements to the community center (Economic Development Initiative) THUD Kuhl
2009 PA $570,000 Project TRANSIT, Philadelphia (FTA – Research) THUD Fattah
2009 IN $237,500 Interchange Planning and Design at I-65/Count Road and 750 North, Johnson County (Transportation, Community, and System Preservation) THUD Buyer Lugar
2009 AL $3,800,000 City of Tuscaloosa Downtown Revitalization Project -University Blvd and Greensboro Avenue (Surface Transportation Priorities) THUD Shelby
2009 WV $6,650,000 West Virginia Route 9 (Transportation, Community, and System Preservation) THUD Byrd
2009 CA $1,337,000 Alameda Creek Watershed Project (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Watershed/Flood Prevention) AG McNerney, Jerry; Stark, Fortney Pete; Schiff, Adam B.; Tauscher, Ellen
2009 DE $70,000 Soil and Environmental Quality (Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service: Special Research Grants) AG Biden, Carper
2009 CA $65,000 City of Covina Police Department Regional Training Equipment-Simunitions Equip. Covina (COPS – Law Enforcement Technology) COM Solis, Hilda L.
2009 MA $400,000 North Worcester County Drug Task Force North Worcester County Drug Task Force Interoperable Credentialing, Crime Scene & Access Control Project Hubbardston (COPS – Law Enforcement Technology) COM Olver, John W. Kerry, Kennedy
2009 RI $200,000 Boys Town New England Boys Town. RI Portsmouth (Juvenile Justice) COM Kennedy, Patrick J. Reed, Whitehouse
2009 CA $117,000 Nevada County Operation Vehicle Surveillance Nevada City (COPS – Law Enforcement Technology) COM Doolittle, John T.
2009 CA $200,000 Providence Holy Cross Foundation, Tattoo Removal Violence Prevention Outreach Program, Mission Hills (Byrne Discretionary Grants) COM Berman, Howard L.
2009 NE $150,000 Zero to Three to educate juvenile and family court judges in early childhood development in order to improve the child welfare system for maltreated infants and toddlers Omaha (Juvenile Justice) COM Ben Nelson, Hagel
2009 $4,000,000 Wide Angle Virtual Environment for USHUS (Defense Health Program) DEF Van Hollen
2009 $800,000 Neuroscience Clinical Gene Therapy Center (OSUMC) (Defense Health Program) DEF Pryce

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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