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
2008 FL $94,000 Riviera Beach Law Enforcement Technology Improvement Project (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Klein
2008 AL $376,000 Alabama Department of Corrections, Montgomery, for computer based corrections training (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR COM Everett Shelby
2008 KS $65,800 Topeka Police Department public safety equipment (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Boyda
2008 AK $235,000 SE Seiners Capacity Reduction Program (NOAA) NBR S COM Stevens
2008 WA $679,150 Whatcom County Executive's Office, Bellingham, for northern border-related prosecution (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR S COM Murray
2008 $1,600,000 Mission deployable surveillance biometrics (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Sires, Rothman Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 $2,400,000 Life Cycle Support Center for Unmanned Systems (Defense Production Act) NBR H DEF Murtha
2008 $3,200,000 DoD Hydrogen PEM Fuel Cell Medium/Heavy Duty Vehicle Demonstration Program (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Larson, Murphy (CT) Dodd, Lieberman
2008 NY $800,000 FLIR Radar System for the UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopter for the New York ANG (Aircraft Procurement – Army) NBR H DEF Hall, John
2008 FL $1,600,000 Local situational combat medical training by the University of Florida College of Medicine (Operation and Maintenance – Navy) NBR H DEF Costa
2008 $2,400,000 Thin Lithium-Iron Disulfide Primary Batteries (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Akin, Kucinich, Welch Brown, Dole, Leahy, Voinovich
2008 $1,520,000 High performance computational design of novel materials (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR S DEF Cochran, Lott
2008 $3,000,000 Armor ready composite cat transition (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF Biden, Carper, Reed
2008 CA $1,608,840 Port of Los Angeles Harbor main channel deepening (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY Roybal Allard Feinstein; Boxer
2008 RI $984,000 Foster-Gloucester Regional School District, Ponaganset, Alternative Energy Lab and Biomass Facilities Project (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR ENERGY Langevin Reed; Whitehouse
2008 TX $257,808 Lower Colorado River Basin, Wharton/Onion (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR ENERGY Doggett; Edwards; Smith, L; Cornyn
2008 Multi-State $8,856,000 Upper Miss River- Illinois WW System, IL, IA, MN, MO (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR ENERGY Akin; Boswell; Hulshof; LaHood Durbin; Bond; Obama; Grassley; Klobuchar
2008 OH $2,400,000 Clarence J. Brown Dam (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 MS $561,000 Rosedale Harbor (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Cochran
2008 GA $4,619,000 Brunswick Harbor (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 AL $200,000 Shoals Entrepreneurial Career Network Renovation, Small Business Incubator, Florence (Small Business Administration) NBR S FINSER Shelby
2008 PA $246,100 Fort Necessity National Battlefield (National Park Service – Construction) NBR H INT Murtha
2008 WV $2,953,200 The Mingo County Redevelopment Authority for water and sewer improvements (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR S INT Byrd
2008 CA $292,000 City of Los Angeles, for supportive housing services (Center for Mental Health Services – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Waxman, Henry
2008 NJ $170,000 Holy Name Hospital, Teaneck, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Rothman, Steven Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 KS $292,000 MidAmerica Nazarene University, Olathe, to expand distance education, for teachers (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Moore (KS), Dennis Brownback
2008 MI $312,000 Hurley Medical Center, Flint, for health information systems (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Kildee, Dale Levin
2008 PA $73,000 White-Williams Scholars, Philadelphia, for a college preparation initiative, which may include student scholarships (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Fattah, Chaka
2008 CA $390,000 St. John's Regional Medical Center, Oxnard, for diabetes prevention and management programs (Centers for Disease Control – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Capps, Lois
2008 VT $165,000 Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, to develop chronic disease registers (Centers for Disease Control – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Leahy
2008 NY $487,000 Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation, for outreach, patient education and registries (Centers for Disease Control – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Harkin, Specter, Schumer, Clinton
2008 VT $390,000 Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, for construction, renovation, and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Leahy
2008 TX $2,950,000 Taxiway west flightline, Randolph AFB (Air Force) NBR C MILCON Cuellar Cornyn, Hutchison
2008 NE $294,000 Valentine National Wildlife Refuge Roads Federal lands (Public Lands Highways) NBR THUD Smith Hagel
2008 NJ $490,000 Passaic/Bergen Intermodal Facilities (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR THUD Pascrell Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 GA $392,000 SR 8/US 29 Plsnt. HI/Lester Rd., Gwinnett Co. (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR H THUD Linder
2008 CA $490,000 Beach Cities Transit Equipment, Redondo Beach (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR H THUD Harman
2008 TX $294,000 Houston Zoo for development of an educational broadcast program (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Culberson, McCaul
2008 WI $392,000 Dane County Regional Airport improvements, Madison (Airport Improvement Program) NBR THUD Baldwin Kohl
2008 MT $262,640 City of Billings, Housing First Project, to build houses for homeless families (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S THUD Tester
2008 KS $1,470,000 Planning and design, Bus Rapid Transit – State Avenue Corridors, Wyandotte County (Small Starts) NBR S THUD Brownback
2008 OR $847,029 Viticulture, Corvallis (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses) NBR H AG Simpson
2008 NC $240,306 Crop Pathogens (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Special Research Grants) NBR AG Etheridge, Price (NC) Burr, Dole
2008 AK $818,232 Alternative salmon products (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Special Research Grants) NBR S AG Stevens
2008 CA $141,000 New Directions for Youth Challenge Program for Gang and Delinquency Prevention, Van Nuys (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR H COM Sherman
2008 MN $47,000 Sheriffs Youth Programs of Minnesota vocational alternatives for youth offenders, Isanti (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR H COM Oberstar
2008 IL $260,000 Adler Planetarium, Chicago, for science and education programming for teachers and students (NASA) NBR COM Kirk, Jackson Jr. Durbin
2008 AL $470,000 City of Montgomery for courthouses and detention facility communications (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR COM Everett Shelby
2008 KS $94,000 Atchison County Sheriff's Office public safety equipment (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Boyda
2008 CA $133,950 San Joaquin Valley Ozone Study data and analysis to support the upcoming 8-hour ozone attainment plans, Central California Air Quality Control Study Policy Committee (NOAA) NBR S COM Feinstein, Boxer

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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