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 UT $195,000 Utah Valley State College, Orem, for a civic education program, including purchase of equipment (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Cannon, Chris Hatch
2008 NV $390,000 Washoe County School District, Reno, to expand the Classroom on Wheels Program for low-income students (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Reid
2008 SD $121,000 South Dakota State University, Brookings, for interdisciplinary research on obesity prevention and treatment (Centers for Disease Control – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Johnson, Thune
2008 AK $487,000 University of Alaska Statewide Office, Fairbanks, for the Health Distance Education Program in Alaska (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Stevens
2008 MI $4,329,000 US property and fiscal office and readiness center renovation, Lansing (Army National Guard) NBR MILCON Conyers, Knollenberg, Rogers, M, Stupak Levin, Stabenow
2008 NY $1,911,000 Niagara Falls International Airport cargo apron-Phase 1B (Airport Improvement Program) NBR THUD Slaughter Schumer, Clinton
2008 $980,000 La Raza HOPE Fund for capitalization of a revolving loan fund to be used for nationwide community development activities (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Olver, Knollenberg, Pastor, Hinojosa,
2008 KY $49,000 Western Kentucky University Business Accelerator in Bowling Green (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Lewis
2008 AZ $245,000 City of Sonerton in Tucson for construction and buildout of the Dunbar Project Youth Cultural Center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR C THUD Grijalva
2008 WY $196,000 Citizens for a Civic Auditorium in Casper for construction of a multipurpose Casper Civic Auditorium facility (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Cubin
2008 WA $147,000 Washington Technology Center in Seattle for construction, renovation and buildout of a technology center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR THUD Baird Murray, Cantwell
2008 WA $1,029,000 City of Granite Falls Freight Access Project (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR S THUD Murray, Cantwell
2008 NM $588,000 San Juan County Road 3900 (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR S THUD Domenici, Bingaman
2008 Multi-State $4,257,984 Chesapeake Bay Activities [MD, VA] (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Conservation Technical Assistance Projects) NBR H AG Sarbanes, Scott, Van Hollen
2008 MO $687,156 Mid-West/Mid-South Irrigation, Columbia (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses) NBR H AG Emerson
2008 IA $186,684 Midwest Agribusiness Trade and Information Center (MATRIC) (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Federal Administration) NBR S AG Harkin
2008 CT $223,250 City of Norwalk for interoperability equipment (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Shays Lieberman
2008 CA $352,500 Office of the Tulare County District Attorney (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM Nunes
2008 GA $235,000 Bethesda Home for Boys, Savannah (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR COM Kingston Chambliss, Isakson
2008 PA $235,000 Erie County (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM English Specter, Casey
2008 LA $89,300 Lafayette Parish Bar Foundation to increase the foundation's level of services (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR COM Boustany Landrieu
2008 AK $1,316,000 Marine Debris Removal and Detection Alaska (NOAA) NBR S COM Stevens
2008 $9,400,000 Competitive program for science museums, and planetariums to enhance programs related to space exploration, aeronautics, space science, earth science or microgravity (NASA) NBR COM
2008 $1,500,000 Survivability Program (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Simpson Craig, Crapo
2008 $1,000,000 AELED IED detection for Naval UAVs (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR H DEF Murtha
2008 $2,000,000 Acinetobacter Baumannii research (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR H DEF Lantos
2008 MO $265,000 Mobility equipment and training supplies, 139th Airlift Wing, St. Joseph, Missouri (Operation and Maintenance – Air National Guard) NBR H DEF Graves, Sam
2008 $1,600,000 SWORD safety confirmation testing for accelerated fielding and production (Defense Production Act) NBR DEF Conyers, Meehan, Ross Pryor, Levin, Lincoln
2008 $300,000 Waterside Wide Area Tactical Coverage & Homing (WaterWATCH) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Aderholt
2008 $1,000,000 Marine Air-Ground Task Force situational awareness (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR S DEF Akaka, Inouye
2008 $2,900,000 Combat Casualty Management System (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR S DEF Reid
2008 CA $8,238,048 Surfside-Sunset-Newport Beach (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR H ENERGY Rohrabacher; Sanchez
2008 IL $107,256 Peoria Riverfront development (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR ENERGY LaHood Durbin
2008 WA $1,476,000 Inland Northwest Research Alliance (INRA) Water Research (Department of Energy: Science) NBR ENERGY Dicks Murray; Cantwell
2008 UT $984,000 Renewable Energy for Rural Economic Development Program (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR S ENERGY Bennett
2008 OH $1,019,000 Alum Creek Lake (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 TX $1,000 Estelline Springs Experimental Project (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 IL $1,735,000 Chicago Harbor (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 SD $500,000 The N2TEC Institute for a rural technology-based economic development program, Rapid City (Small Business Administration) NBR S FINSER Johnson
2008 AL $98,440 Historic Preservation of the Kymulga Grist Mill (National Park Service – Save America's Treasures) NBR H INT Mike Rogers (AL)
2008 SD $492,200 The City of Box Elder for water infrastructure improvements (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR S INT Tim Johnson
2008 CA $195,000 El Camino College, Torrance, for nursing, engineering, and nontraditional education and training programs (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Waters, Maxine; Harman, Jane
2008 CA $146,000 Vanguard University Nursing Center, Costa Mesa, for a teacher and nurse training program (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Rohrabacher, Dana
2008 AZ $900,000 Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Mitchell, Harry, Pastor, Ed Kyl
2008 RI $292,000 Newport Hospital, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Kennedy, Patrick
2008 CA $438,000 Monterey County Probation Department, Salinas, for the Silver Star Gang Prevention and Intervention Program (Social Services – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Farr, Sam Boxer
2008 UT $247,000 Orem, for technologies upgrades, equipment and resource sharing for the Oram public library (Institute of Museum and Library Services – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Cannon, Chris Bennett, Hatch
2008 UT $413,000 Utah State Office of Education, Salt Lake City, for a mentoring program (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Bennett
2008 VA $87,000 United Mine Workers of America, Fairfax, for a fuel-cell coalmine vehicle demonstration project (Centers for Disease Control – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Specter
2008 IA $560,000 Eisenhower Foundation, to replicate the Delaney Street Project (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Harkin

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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