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 NM $588,000 Hobbs East Bypass Project (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR S THUD Domenici, Bingaman
2008 AR $553,101 Aquaculture Fisheries Center, Pine Bluff (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses) NBR AG Ross Lincoln, Pryor
2008 Multi-State $888,735 Rural Policies Institute [IA, MO, NE] (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Special Research Grants) NBR AG Emerson Hagel, Harkin, Nelson (NE)
2008 WV $112,209 Feed efficiency (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Federal Administration) NBR S AG Byrd
2008 CT $470,000 Greater Georgetown Interoperability Initiative (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Shays
2008 TX $84,600 City of Abilene (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Neugebauer
2008 IA $145,500 Heartland Family Services, Council Bluffs, to provide family-based residential meth treatment in western Iowa (Methamphetamine Enforcement and Clean Up – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM King (Steve) Harkin
2008 NY $282,000 Westchester Jewish Community Services (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR H COM Engel
2008 VA $470,000 Alleghany County Sheriff's Department (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Boucher
2008 ID $94,000 Improved hydrologic modeling of water resources for snow-dominated regions to develop an operational hydrology model for mountain-front hydrologic systems, Boise State University (NOAA) NBR S COM Craig, Crapo
2008 $7,050,000 Hal Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM
2008 $1,000,000 Improved Advanced Watertight Door (IAWD) for Navy Surface Ships (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR H DEF Shuster
2008 $1,280,000 Joint Forces Orientation Distance Learning Project (Operation and Maintenance – Army Reserve National Guard) NBR H DEF Murtha
2008 $1,600,000 Maritime Mobile Force Protection Program (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Langevin Reed, Whitehouse
2008 $1,600,000 QUADEYE night vision goggles for HH-to Aircraft (Other Procurement – Air Force) NBR H DEF Granger
2008 $4,000,000 Manufacturing and repair cell (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Conyers Levin, Stabenow
2008 $5,500,000 Hewell undersea military munitions assessment (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Abercrombie, Hirono Akaka
2008 NV $1,200,000 Research Visualization Facility (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR S DEF Reid
2008 $3,000,000 Software engineering enhancements (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF Shelby
2008 MI $492,000 MBI international biomass research (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR ENERGY Rogers, M. Stabenow
2008 MI $590,400 Sustainable LED fluorescent light replacement technology (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR H ENERGY Knollenberg
2008 WA $295,200 Makah Indian community water supply (Bureau of Reclamation: Water and Related Resources) NBR ENERGY Dicks Murray
2008 IL $492,000 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, biofuels research (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR C ENERGY Durbin
2008 OH $777,000 Conneaut Harbor (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 TX $19,027,000 Galveston Harbor and Channel (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 IL $366,000 Farm Creek Reservoirs (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 AL $200,000 Alabama Small Business Institute of Commerce, Small Business Incubator, Rainbow City (Small Business Administration) NBR S FINSER Shelby
2008 CA $492,200 The City of Manteca for Water Treatment Infrastructure Upgrades (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR H INT McNerney
2008 UT $295,320 Salt Lake City for water quality protection project (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR S INT Hatch
2008 FL $121,000 Jewish Community Services of S. Fla, N. Miami, for a naturally occurring retirement communities demonstration project (Administration on Aging – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Wasserman Schultz, Debbie Nelson, Bill
2008 MI $146,000 Impression 5 Science Center, Lansing, for exhibits (Institute of Museum and Library Services – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Rogers (MI), Mike Levin
2008 AZ $146,000 Mesa United School District, for after-school development and enrichment activities for at-risk youth (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Mitchell, Harry
2008 RI $292,000 City of Pawtucket School Dept., for the Jacqueline Walsh School of the Performing and Visual Arts, which may include equip. (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Kennedy, Patrick Reed Whitehouse
2008 OK $97,000 Rural Enterprise of Oklahoma, Inc., Durant, for entrepreneurship training programs (Employment and Training Administration – Department of Labor) NBR LABHHS Fallin, Mary Inhofe
2008 CA $204,000 La Sierra University, Riverside (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Calvert, Ken
2008 ME $97,000 Waldo County Preschool & Family Services, Belfast, for the Mine Early Language and Literacy Initiative (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Collins, Snowe
2008 CA $165,000 California Community Colleges, Sacramento, for the Math and Science Teacher Initiative (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Feinstein
2008 WI $82,000 Free Clinic of the Greater Menomonie Area, Inc., for equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Kohl
2008 DE $10,800,000 C-130 maintenance hanger, phase 1, Dover AFB (Air National Guard) NBR MILCON Castle Biden, Carper
2008 NJ $14,700,000 Trans-Hudson Midtown Corridor (New Starts/Fixed Guideway) NBR THUD Sires Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 MA $980,000 I-91 Fiber and Conduit Project (Interstate Maintenance Discretionary) NBR H THUD Olver
2008 GA $196,000 For construction of the Martin Luther King, Sr. Community Resource Center, Inc. in Atlanta (Economic Development Initiative) NBR C THUD Lewis
2008 TX $98,000 Harris County Community and Economic Development Department in Houston for planning studies and streetscape improvements (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Green
2008 FL $980,000 Heckscher Drive and bridge replacement (Transportation & Community & System Preservation) NBR H THUD Crenshaw
2008 AL $245,000 Red Mountain Greenway and Recreational Area Commission in Jefferson County for land acquisition and construction (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Bachus
2008 WA $1,372,000 Post Street Centennial Trail and Utility Bridge (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR S THUD Murray, Cantwell
2008 NM $1,176,000 Las Cruces Downtown revitilization (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR S THUD Domenici, Bingaman
2008 MI $262,152 Bovine Tuberculosis (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Special Research Grants) NBR AG Rogers (Ml), Upton, Walberg Levin, Stabenow
2008 MO $184,698 Rice Agronomy (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Special Research Grants) NBR H AG Emerson
2008 OH $112,209 Farmland Preservation (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Federal Administration) NBR S AG Brown (OH), Voinovich

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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