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 IA $97,000 Iowa Office of Drug Control Policy, Des Moines, to educate parents about drug use by teeangers (Center for Substance Abuse Prevention – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Harkin
2008 AK $243,000 Alaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Anchorage, for a partnership with the Lions Club to expand low vision services (Rehab – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Stevens
2008 RI $9,900,000 Reconstruct wharf between piers 1 & 2, Naval Station Newport (Navy) NBR S MILCON Reed
2008 OH $49,000 Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Black Brigade Fund in Cincinnati for construction of a monument (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Schmidt
2008 PA $1,470,000 State Route 21 improvements and upgrades, Fayette County (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR H THUD Murtha
2008 MI $490,000 Michigan Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills for construction of the Children's Gallery exhibit (Economic Development Initiative) NBR THUD Knollenberg Levin, Stabenow
2008 MA $392,000 Newton Rapid Transit handicap accessibility (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR H THUD Frank
2008 OH $196,000 West Price Hill Park and Ride (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR H THUD Chabot
2008 VT $328,300 Bennington Multi-Modal Facility (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR S THUD Sanders
2008 KS $686,000 Research on Small Aircraft, National Institute for Aviation Research (Research [FAA]) NBR S THUD Brownback, Roberts
2008 CO $233,355 Dryland Production, Akron (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses) NBR H AG Musgrave, Udall (CO)
2008 DE $217,467 Soil and Environmental Quality (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Special Research Grants) NBR H AG Castle
2008 WA $223,425 Washington Clean Plant Program (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) NBR S AG Murray
2008 CO $94,000 Montrose Dispatch Center (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Salazar (John) Allard, Salazar (Ken)
2008 WV $70,500 Follansbee Police Department (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Mollohan
2008 IL $188,000 Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority Elder Abuse Prevention Pilot Program, Chicago (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM Jackson Jr.
2008 PA $329,000 Bethlehem Pennsylvania Police Department for interoperable in-car digital video camera systems (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Dent Specter, Casey
2008 CA $423,000 California Innocence Project (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM Berman
2008 AL $164,500 City of Gulf Shores for law enforcement technology upgrades (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR S COM Shelby
2008 AK $1,600,000 Blast Risk Analysis and Mitigation Application (BRAMA) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Young (AK)
2008 IL $1,040,000 Illinois Institute of Technology (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR H DEF Rush
2008 VA $2,400,000 Open architecture/maintenance free operating period (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR H DEF Moran (VA)
2008 WI $1,600,000 Revolutionary self sealing plastic enclosure for military batteries (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Kind Kohl
2008 $1,200,000 Global Force Management Visibility Tool (Operation and Maintenance – Navy) NBR DEF Forbes Warner, Webb
2008 $800,000 Advanced repair technology for the Expeditionary Navy (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR H DEF Capps
2008 MT $1,600,000 NAVAIR CPI tech manual conversion and support (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR S DEF Baucus
2008 $4,000,000 New vaccines to fight respiratory infection (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF Hagel, Nelson (NE)
2008 $8,000,000 Portable illumination system (Operation and Maintenance – Air Force) NBR H DEF
2008 CO $492,000 Jefferson County Bioenergy Initiative (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR H ENERGY Perlmutter
2008 MD $492,000 Anacostia River & Tributaries Comprehensive Plan (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR ENERGY Hoyer; Van Hollen; Wynn Mikulski; Cardin
2008 CT $186,960 Mystic River (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR H ENERGY Courtney
2008 NV $590,400 Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada for Operations and Maintenance (Department of Energy – Weapons Activities) NBR S ENERGY Reid
2008 PA $1,348,000 Crooked Creek Lake (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 LA $2,952,000 Bonnet Carre (Corps of Engineers: Mississippi River & Trib: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Landrieu
2008 IL $250,000 Business incubator, Illinois State University (Small Business Administration) NBR FINSER Weller Durbin
2008 ID $600,000 Idaho Bureau of Homeland Security (FEMA Predisaster Mitigation) NBR C HS Mike Simpson
2008 KS $492,200 The City of Lamed for the Waste Water Treatment Plant (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR INT Jerry Moran Brownback
2008 CA $492,200 California Desert Wilderness (Bureau of Land Management – Land Acquisition) NBR S INT Feinstein
2008 NY $355,000 Long Island University, Brooklyn, for asthma education, counseling, and prevention programs (Centers for Disease Control – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Towns, Edolphus Clinton, Schumer
2008 NY $126,000 Bibliographical Society of America, New York, for the First Ladies Museum in Canton for the First White House Library Catalogue (IMLS – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Regula, Ralph Voinovich
2008 MA $341,000 MA College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Worcester, for health info. tech. systems (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS McGovern, James
2008 WA $292,000 University of Washington at Bothell, to train nursing faculty in partnership with a consortium of colleges (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Inslee, Jay; Reichert, David Cantwell
2008 CA $390,000 Placer County, Auburn, for construction of the Children's Health Center/Emergency Shelter (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Doolittle, John
2008 AR $209,000 North Arkansas College, Harrison, for technology upgrades (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Boozman, John Lincoln, Pryor
2008 HI $292,000 Maui Economic Development Board, for the rural computer utilization training program (Employment and Training Administration – Department of Labor) NBR S LABHHS Inouye
2008 PA $87,000 Institute for Research, Education and Training in Addictions, Pittsburgh, for substance abuse prevention programs (Center for Substance Abuse Prevention – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Specter
2008 WV $1,184,000 Wheeling Jesuit University, for the National Technology Transfer Center for a coal slurry impoundment pilot project (Institute of Museum and Library Services – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Byrd
2008 OK $3,300,000 Multipurpose machine gun range, Fort Sill (Army) NBR S MILCON Inhofe
2008 OH $98,000 John P. Parker Historical Society in Ripley for refinement of site investigations and improvements for the John P. Parker residence (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Schmidt
2008 PA $490,000 Baptist and Broughton Road Intersection (Transportation & Community & System Preservation) NBR H THUD Murphy, Tim

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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