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 IL $98,400 Prairie Dupont Levee (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR C ENERGY Costello
2008 UT $1,476,000 Cerematec Incorporated in Salt Lake City, Utah, for remediation of low-level nuclear waste utilizing ceramic ionic transport membranes (Department of Energy:) Defense Environmental Cleanup) NBR S ENERGY Hatch; Bennett
2008 PA $745,000 Foster Joseph Sayers Dam (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 TN $20,813,000 Tennessee River (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Shelby
2008 DC $282,000 ARISE Foundation, Life-Management Skills Intervention/Re-entry Program for High Risk Youth (District of Columbia) NBR H FINSER Wasserman Schultz
2008 CA $13,500 City of Los Angeles (FEMA Predisaster Mitigation) NBR C HS Lucille Roybal Allard
2008 Multi-State $2,067,240 Water Environment Research Foundation (EPA – Science and Technology) NBR INT James Moran, Norton Cardin, Clinton, Collins, Feinstein, Inouye, Lautenberg, Graham, Kerry, Menendez, Schumer, Snowe
2008 WV $492,200 White Sulphur Springs National Fish Hatchery, Facility Improvements (United States Fish and Wildlife Service – Construction) NBR S INT Byrd
2008 KS $292,000 USD 259, Wichita Public Schools, for technology upgrades (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Tiahrt, Todd
2008 NY $1,950,000 City College of NY, for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service, library and archives (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Rangel, Charles
2008 LA $97,000 Southern University at Shreveport, for healthcare worker training activities (Employment and Training Administration – Department of Labor) NBR H LABHHS McCrery, Jim
2008 MD $146,000 Boys & Girls Town of Missouri, Columbia, for technology upgrades (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Hulshof, Kenny
2008 TX $282,000 City of Austin, for facilities and equipment for the Travis County Hospital District (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Doggett, Lloyd
2008 MO $97,000 Joplin School District, for the Smart Board Initiative, including purchase of equipment (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Blunt
2008 IA $316,000 Palmer College on Chiropractice, for a best practices initiaitive on lower back pain (Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Harkin
2008 PA $87,000 Mesiah College, Grantham, for wireless technology acquisition and technology infrstructure improvements (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Specter, Casey, Jr.
2008 NY $243,000 Catholic Family Center, Rochester, for the Kingship Caregiver Resource Network (Social Services – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Clinton, Schumer
2008 RI $5,000,000 Special operations training facility, Quonset State Airport (Air National Guard) NBR S MILCON Reed
2008 IL $196,000 Black Ensemble Theater in Chicago for planning, design and construction (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Schakowsky
2008 PA $274,400 Yardley Borough for acquisition and installation of equipment to improve stormwater systems (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Murphy, Pat
2008 MI $490,000 Walton Boulevard Bridge widening (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR H THUD Knollenberg
2008 PR $98,000 Municipality of Yauco for construction of low income housing units in Bo. Pueblo Sur (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Fortuno
2008 DE $686,000 Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Recreation Trail Federal lands (Public Lands Highways) NBR H THUD Castle
2008 IA $343,000 US Highway 63 reconstruction, Waterloo (Transportation & Community & System Preservation) NBR S THUD Grassley
2008 LA $392,000 City of Lake Charles, America's Wetland Center, to establish a center focused on the national importance of sustainable wetlands conservation, preservation (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S THUD Landrieu, Vitter
2008 KS $117,174 Doyle Creek Watershed (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations) NBR H AG Moran (KS)
2008 CA $737,799 Applied Agriculture and Environmental Research (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Federal Administration) NBR AG Cardoza, Fan, Herger, McCarthy, Radanovich Feinstein
2008 AK $376,000 Promoting healthy wild salmon fisheries funds will be used by the Yukon River Drainage Association to promote healthy wild salmon fisheries. (NOAA) NBR COM Young (Don) Stevens
2008 OH $188,000 Portage County Adult Probation Department Community Integration and Socialization Program (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM Ryan (Tim)
2008 WV $47,000 CASA of Wood County (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM Mollohan
2008 NY $94,000 Abundant Life Church of God Family and Group Counseling Program, Holbrook (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM Israel
2008 CT $223,250 Henry Lee Institute for Forensic Science, West Haven, for equipment and other costs for the National Forensic Crisis Management and Investigation Center (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR COM DeLauro Lieberman
2008 CA $61,100 Pico Union Housing programs for at-risk youth, Los Angeles (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR H COM Becerra
2008 MN $223,250 Dakota County, Hastings, for upgrades to criminal justice information (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR S COM Coleman, Klobuchar
2008 $1,000,000 Ballistic helmet liner kits (Operation and Maintenance – Army Reserve National Guard) NBR DEF Wu, Blumenauer, DeFazio, Hooley Smith, Wyden
2008 $3,200,000 M72 Lightweight Attack Weapon System (LAW) (Procurement of Ammunition – Navy and Marine Corps) NBR H DEF Roybal Allard
2008 $1,000,000 Defense Command Integration Center (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR H DEF Moore (KS), Boyda
2008 DC $2,000,000 Combat Wound Initiative at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Kennedy Reed
2008 PA $2,000,000 National Bioterrorism Civilian Medical Response Center (CIMERC) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Fattah
2008 $1,600,000 Wide area sensor for force protection targeting (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR H DEF Calvert
2008 WA $1,600,000 High-pressure/microwave MRE processing (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF Cantwell, Murray
2008 WA $4,000,000 Component Object Model (COM) Attitude Control System Simulation/Trainer (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR S DEF Murray
2008 FL $1,968,000 Eckerd College Science Center (Department of Energy: Science) NBR ENERGY Young, C.W. Bill Bill Nelson
2008 NM $984,000 High Efficiency Cascade Solar Cells (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR ENERGY Pearce Domenici; Bingaman
2008 MD $49,200 Lower Potomac Estuary Watershed, St Mary's Watershed (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR ENERGY Hoyer Mikulski; Cardin
2008 TN $295,200 J. Percy Priest (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR H ENERGY Cooper
2008 LA $1,180,800 Tulane materials and energy research (Department of Energy: Science) NBR S ENERGY Landrieu
2008 PA $745,000 Curwensville Lake (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 MS $984,000 Yazoo Basin, Tributaries (Corps of Engineers: Mississippi River & Trib: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Cochran
2008 TN $600,000 The Enterprise Center (Small Business Administration) NBR H FINSER Wamp

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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