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 NV $893,000 Washoe County Sheriff's Office, Reno, to secure improvements at the justice center (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR S COM Reid
2008 $2,400,000 Security for Critical Communication Networks (SCCN) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR DEF Sires Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 PA $1,600,000 National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Murtha
2008 CT $1,600,000 Defense applications of carbonate fuel cells (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Larson
2008 $2,400,000 Rivet Joint Network interfaces growth (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR H DEF Hall (TX), Granger
2008 TN $9,000,000 Up-Armored HMMV and tactical truck convoy trainers for the Tennessee National Guard (Other Procurement – Army) NBR DEF Cooper, Wamp Alexander, Corker
2008 $3,000,000 Copper Antimicrobial Research Program (Defense Health Program) NBR DEF Akin, Arcuri, Costello, Gerlach Casey, Durbin, Grassley, Harkin, Lott, Reed
2008 MT $1,500,000 MilTech Extension Program (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR S DEF Baucus, Tester
2008 $3,000,000 Terminal Surveillance and Approach System (TSAS)/ATCALS (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR S DEF Smith, Wyden
2008 NJ $371,952 Hackensack Meadowlands (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY Rothman Lautenberg; Menendez
2008 RI $619,920 Charlestown Breachway and Inlet (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY Langevin Reed
2008 TX $295,200 Spring Lake, San Marcos (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR H ENERGY Doggett
2008 MO $1,096,176 Chesterfield (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY Akin Bond
2008 OH $2,076,000 Delaware Lake (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 MO $2,000,000 Pomme de Terre Lake (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 Multi-State $9,967,000 Hartwell Lake [GA, SC] (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 LA $100,000 Southeastern Louisiana University Hispanic Business and Leadership Institute, Hammond (Small Business Administration) NBR S FINSER Vitter
2008 PA $147,660 WA Young & Sons Foundry, Greene County (National Park Service – Save America's Treasures) NBR H INT Murtha
2008 IL $344,540 City of Chicago GreenStreets Tree Planting Program (Forest Service – State and Private Forestry) NBR S INT Durbin
2008 CA $195,000 Los Angeles Valley, Valley Glen, for it's Solving the Math Achievement Gap Program (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Waxman, Henry
2008 AR $429,000 Drew County Memorial Hospital, Monticello, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Ross, Mike; Lincoln, Pryor
2008 KS $312,000 TLC Children and Families, Inc., Olathe, for a transitional living program for at-risk and homless youth (Social Services – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Moore (KS), Dennis
2008 FL $644,000 Best Buddies International, Miami, for mentoring programs for persons with intellectual disabilities (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Kennedy, Patrick; Ramstad, Jim Harkin
2008 PA $56,000 Philadelphia School District, for the CORE Philly Scholarship Program (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Fattah, Chaka
2008 WV $243,000 Schoenbaum Family Enrichment Center, Charleston (Employment and Training Administration – Department of Labor) NBR H LABHHS Capito, Shelley
2008 MO $247,000 UrbanFUTURE, St. Louis, to expand literacy, mentoring, and after-school services (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Bond
2008 WV $1,384,000 Marshall University, for the Virtual Colonoscopy Outreach Program (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Byrd
2008 MA $877,000 University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, for health information technology (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Kennedy, Kerry
2008 FL $6,000,000 Replace communications facility, Jacksonville IAP (Air National Guard) NBR C MILCON Crenshaw, Boyd, Stearns, Young, Bill
2008 NJ $98,000 Isles Incorporated in Trenton for redevelopment of a former textile mill as job training center for Youthbuild (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Smith
2008 NJ $196,000 Monmouth County for the NJ Children's Advocacy Center for the construction of a children's advocacy center for victims of child abuse (Economic Development Initiative) NBR THUD Pallone Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 GA $392,000 McGinnis Ferry Road – Gwinnett County (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR THUD Linder Chambliss
2008 CA $147,000 Friendship Circle of the South Bay in Redondo Beach for construction of a multipurpose facility for children with special needs (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Harman
2008 TX $19,600,000 North Corridor BRT, Houston and Southeast Corridor BRT (New Starts/Fixed Guideway) NBR THUD Culberson, Green, Green Hutchison
2008 WI $196,000 Second Harvest Foodbank in Madison for renovation, construction and buildout of the food bank (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Baldwin
2008 MI $2,298,100 Port of District Public Dock and Terminal Project (Ferry Boats and Terminal Facilities) NBR S THUD Levin, Stabenow
2008 NM $294,000 Bridge replacement, McKinley County (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR S THUD Domenici, Bingaman
2008 ID $141,999 Idaho One Plan (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Conservation Technical Assistance Projects) NBR H AG Simpson
2008 NC $359,466 Food Fermentation Research, Raleigh (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses) NBR AG Etheridge, McIntyre, Miller (NC), Price (NC) Dole
2008 VT $112,209 Childhood Obesity & Nutrition (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Special Research Grants) NBR S AG Leahy
2008 CA $141,000 New Directions for Youth Program, Van Nuys (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM Sherman
2008 MN $376,000 Itasca County Emergency Radio System (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Oberstar
2008 IL $940,000 Adler Planetarium's Space Exploration Center (NASA) NBR COM Kirk, Jackson Jr. Durbin
2008 SC $399,500 Methodist University Methamphetamine Educational Training Project (Methamphetamine Enforcement and Clean Up – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Etheridge, McIntyre Dole, Burr
2008 FL $517,000 Youth Crime Watch, Miami (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR H COM Boyd
2008 AL $846,000 Tornado and hurricane operations and research to improve detection tracking and forecasting of tornadic thunderstorms and land-falling hurricanes in the Southeast United States University of Alabama at Huntsville (NOAA) NBR S COM Shelby
2008 MD $223,250 Eastern Shores of Maryland Education Consortium, to expand the dropout prevention program to utilize a web-based curriculum (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR S COM Mikulski, Cardin
2008 NJ $8,000,000 Stabilization/repair of the Ship Repair Facility at Bayonne Military Ocean Terminal (Operation and Maintenance – Defense Wide) NBR DEF Sires Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 $2,000,000 Modular payload systems (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR H DEF Murtha
2008 $2,000,000 UAV – resupply BURROA (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Larson Dodd, Lieberman

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