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 GA $3,936,000 Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR ENERGY Abercrombie; Aderholt; Carnahan; Conyers; Etheridge, Price, D.; Towns Stabenow; Brown; Kohl; Inouye; Bayh; Levin; Klobuchar; McConnell; Bunning; Bond; Chambliss; Lugar
2008 OH $180,000 Surveillance of Northern Boundary Waters (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 MO $23,880,000 Mississippi River between the Ohio and Missouri Rivers (Lower River) (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Bond
2008 IL $4,692,000 Lake Shelbyville (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Durbin
2008 KY $900,000 University of Kentucky/New Product Development and Commercialization Center for Rural Manufacturers (Small Business Administration) NBR S FINSER McConnell
2008 WV $1,476,600 Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge (United States Fish and Wildlife Service – Land Acquisition) NBR INT Mollohan Byrd
2008 MS $393,760 Center for Bottomland Hardwoods (Forest Service – Research) NBR S INT Cochran
2008 NC $570,000 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with E. Carolina University, for the Program in Racial Disparities in Cardio. Disease (Centers for Disease Control – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Watt, Melvin Dole
2008 IL $243,000 Access Community Health Center, Bloomingdale, for mental health services (Center for Mental Health Services – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Roskam, Peter
2008 WV $243,000 Sistersville General Hospital, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Mollohan, Alan
2008 RI $146,000 Best Buddies Rhode Island, Providence, for mentoring programs for persons with intellectual disabilities (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Kennedy, Patrick
2008 PA $73,000 People for People, Philadelphia, for after-school programs (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Fattah, Chaka
2008 WV $97,000 James Rumsey Technical Institute, Martinsburg, for the Automotive Technology Program (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Capito, Shelley
2008 VT $146,000 Institute of Medical Humanism, Inc. Bennington, for an end-of-life care initiative (Centers for Disease Control – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Leahy
2008 MI $175,000 University of Montana, Missouri, for methamphetamine detection and health effects research (Centers for Disease Control – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Tester
2008 KY $487,000 University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington, for the Kentucky Oral Health Initiative (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS McConnell
2008 CT $9,260,000 Submarine learning center, New London Submarine Base (Navy) NBR C MILCON Courtney
2008 NJ $245,000 Route 537/State Route 34 Intersection, Monmouth (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR THUD Smith Menendez
2008 TX $490,000 Corpus Christi RTA Bus & Bus Facilities (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR THUD Ortiz Hutchison
2008 CA $196,000 City of Yucaipa for construction of a joint recreation facility for the city of Yucaipa and Crafton Hills Community College (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Lewis
2008 KY $137,200 Bell-Whitley Community Agency, to complete construction of the One Stop Training Center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Hal Rogers
2008 TX $686,000 Thomas Road Project, McAllen (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR H THUD Cuellar
2008 LA $245,000 Widening of LA 16; Livingston Parish (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR THUD Baker Vitter
2008 WA $754,600 Tacoma Rail Mountian Division track improvements (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR S THUD Murray, Cantwell
2008 NV $196,000 Henderson Lake Mead Parkway (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR S THUD Reid
2008 ID $695,100 Hagerman Fish Culture Experiment Station (Agricultural Research Service – Buildings and Facilities) NBR AG Simpson Craig, Crapo
2008 MN $219,453 Uniform Farm Management Program (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Special Research Grants) NBR AG Emerson, Walz Coleman, Klobuchar
2008 AK $968,175 Berry Research (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Special Research Grants) NBR S AG Stevens
2008 NH $235,000 Rochester Police Department law enforcement training and equipment (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Shea Porter
2008 MN $133,950 St. Louis County Sheriff's Office, Duluth, for equipment to support interoperability such as base stations microwave towers and installation (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Oberstar Coleman, Klobuchar
2008 GA $141,000 Marcus Institute, Atlanta, for providing remediation for the potential consequences of childhood abuse and neglect (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR COM Kingston, Under, Johnson (Hank) Chambliss, Isakson
2008 CA $178,600 East Palo Alto for an anti-gang initiative (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR COM Eshoo Boxer
2008 FL $188,000 Bay County Junior Deputy and Law Enforcement Explorer (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR H COM Boyd
2008 VT $250,000 Lake Champlain Research Consortium research to identify sources of harmful bacteria, University of Vermont (NOAA) NBR S COM Leahy
2008 $65,200,000 Technology Innovation Program (Technology Administration) NBR COM
2008 $2,400,000 Systematic Approach to Radiation Hardened Electronics (SHARE) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR DEF Simpson Craig, Crapo
2008 $1,000,000 Remote bio-medical Detector (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Murtha
2008 $1,200,000 Joint electronic warfare training (Operation and Maintenance – Navy) NBR H DEF Larsen
2008 $1,200,000 Cutting tools for aerospace materials (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Grijalva
2008 $1,200,000 Advanced Proteomics Program (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Cooper
2008 $2,400,000 Marine Corps Flat-Rack (Procurement – Marine Corps) NBR DEF Aderholt Shelby, Sessions
2008 $1,000,000 Telerobotic and advance minimally invasive surgery (Defense Health Program) NBR S DEF Byrd
2008 $3,000,000 BioSensor Communicator and Controller System (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF Reid
2008 FL $738,000 Miami Museum of Science Renewable Energy Project (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR H ENERGY Ros Lehtinen
2008 IL $492,000 Memorial Health System, Springfield (Department of Energy: Science) NBR H ENERGY LaHood
2008 MI $486,096 Monroe Harbor (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR ENERGY Dingell Levin; Stabenow
2008 HI $1,476,000 Cellular Bioengineering, Inc., Honolulu, to continue development of polymeric hydrogels for radiation decontamination (Department of Energy: Defense Environmental Cleanup) NBR ENERGY Abercrombie Inouye
2008 OH $1,409,000 Michael J. Kirwan Dam and Reservoir (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 MO $8,626,000 Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Bond
2008 IL $4,110,000 Carlyle Lake (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY

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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