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 $1,600,000 WIZARD – Remotely Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Countermeasures (RDIED) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Rothman Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 $2,400,000 National Guard Bureau – J3/J6 National Military Cyber Operations-Air National Guard (Operation and Maintenance – Air National Guard) NBR H DEF Mitchell
2008 $2,500,000 Mobile Virtual Training Capability (MVTC) (Other Procurement – Army) NBR H DEF Keller
2008 $2,400,000 Advanced Hypersonic Weapon mission planning (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Everett, Aderholt
2008 IN $2,000,000 Christian Sarkine Autism Treatment Center (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Burton
2008 $1,600,000 Advanced Communications Intelligence (COMINT) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF Wicker, Lott
2008 VA $8,000,000 Radford Army Ammunition Plant-Solvent Recovery System and environmental mitigation (Procurement of Ammunition – Army) NBR S DEF Warner, Webb
2008 MD $984,000 CVD single-crystal diamond optical switch (Department of Energy: Nuclear Energy) NBR H ENERGY Wynn
2008 AZ $10,824,000 Tres Rios (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY Pastor; Mitchell Kyl
2008 NJ $246,984 Delaware River Comprehensive (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR ENERGY Holt; Saxton Lautenberg; Menendez
2008 SC $10,332,000 South Carolina HBCU Math and Science Initiative (Department of Energy: Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation) NBR H ENERGY Clyburn
2008 ND $2,460,000 University of North Dakota in Grand Forks to support antibodies research (Department of Energy: Science) NBR S ENERGY Dorgan
2008 TN $5,024,000 Center Hill Lake (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 WA $3,345,000 Howard Hanson Dam (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 MD $282,000 Montgomery College, Germantown Biotechnology Project (Small Business Administration) NBR H FINSER Van Hollen, Wynn
2008 KY $200,000 City of Louisville's Emergency Management Agency (FEMA Predisaster Mitigation) NBR C HS John Yarmuth
2008 WA $492,200 The City of Mountlake Terrace for Water Main System Replacement (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR INT Inslee Cantwell
2008 KS $295,320 The City of Ellsworth for wastewater treatment project (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR S INT Brownback
2008 MS $170,000 Kimichael Hospital, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Thompson, (MS) Bennie
2008 WV $1,053,000 Huntington Junior College, for an initiative to recruit and train students in closed captionioning (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Rahall, Nick Byrd
2008 MN $289,000 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, for construction, renovation, and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS McCollum (MN), Betty Coleman, Klobuchar
2008 PA $987,000 American Oncologic Hospital, Fox Chase Center, Philadelphia, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration) NBR H LABHHS Hoyer, Steny
2008 WA $414,000 Community Health Care, Tacoma, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Dicks, Norman
2008 OR $312,000 Friends of the Children National, Portland, for mentoring programs (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Blumenauer, Earl Wyden
2008 WA $97,000 Port Jobs in partnership with South Seattle Community College, for training of entry-level airport workers (Employment and Training Administration – Department of Labor) NBR S LABHHS Murray
2008 SD $390,000 Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Eagle Butte, for a methamphetamine prevention program (Center for Substance Abuse Prevention – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Johnson
2008 WI $82,000 La Causa Charter School, Milwaukee, to implement a science and robotics lab (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Kohl
2008 AK $137,200 RurAL CAP, Inc. for Rural Alaska, Community Head Start facility upgrades (Economic Development Initiative) NBR THUD Young (AK) Murkowski
2008 CA $147,000 City of Lynwood for construction of a public park (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Sanchez, Linda
2008 CT $205,800 Prime Time House in Torrington for renovation and construction of a community services facility (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Murphy (CT)
2008 IL $245,000 Sheridan Crossing improvements, North Chicago (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR H THUD Kirk
2008 NJ $49,000 Woodbridge Township for construction of a Woodbridge Historical Museum (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Ferguson
2008 TX $343,000 Northeast Inner Loop Intersection improvements (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR H THUD Carter
2008 IN $343,000 Connersville Intermodal study, Connersville (Transportation & Community & System Preservation) NBR S THUD Lugar
2008 TX $98,000 Global Samaritan Resources, Abilene, to build a 25,000 square foot warehouse facility (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S THUD Cornyn
2008 CA $359,466 Cotton Pathology, Shatter (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses) NBR AG McCarthy (CA) Feinstein
2008 IA $405,144 Ag-based Industrial Lubricants (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Federal Administration) NBR AG Braley Grassley, Harkin
2008 KY $47,000 Louisville Science Center at-risk youth programs (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR H COM Yarmuth
2008 MD $5,358,000 Urbanet III for continuation of the NOAA Air Resource Laboratory's Urbanet Partnership to expand the number of metro areas covered by the Urbanet system to improve weather forecasting AWS convergence Technologies (NOAA) NBR COM Ruppersberger Mikulski, Cardin
2008 CA $423,000 Richmond Police Activities League One-Stop Youth Center (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR H COM Miller (George)
2008 MD $1,997,500 Prince George's County interoperable radio systems (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Hoyer, Wynn Mikulski
2008 MA $235,000 Woods Hole Berthing Area for new R/V Bigelow (NOAA) NBR COM Delahunt Kerry, Kennedy (Edward)
2008 IL $94,000 McHenry County (Law Enforcement Communication System (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Bean Obama
2008 VA $156,275 Commonwealth of Virginia, Richmond, for gang prevention education (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR S COM Warner, Webb
2008 NM $1,600,000 Sky-pure – water from air (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Wilson (NM) Domenici
2008 $800,000 Military Biomaterials Institute for Acute and Regenerative Care (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Rothman Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 $1,600,000 Biometrics automated toolset enhancements (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Miller, George
2008 $1,600,000 Fully integrated solar powered interior lighting technology (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR DEF Kaptur, Gillmor Brown, Voinovich
2008 $1,600,000 Next generation interceptors materials research (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Everett
2008 $2,400,000 Unmanned Force Augmentation System (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Burgess, Marchant Sessions

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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