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 $2,300,000 Civil Air Patrol (Operation and Maintenance – Air Force) NBR S DEF Biden, Harkin, Carper
2008 $8,500,000 Unique identification of tangible items (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR S DEF Wicker, Cochran
2008 OR $984,000 Tools for nanotechnology education (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) – NBR H ENERGY Wu
2008 AZ $984,000 ACE Program at Maricopa Community Colleges (Department of Energy: Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation) NBR H ENERGY Pastor
2008 NJ $1,476,000 Trenton Fuel Works Biofuels Plant Reconstruction, Biomass (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR ENERGY Holt; Rothman Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 SC $6,606,576 Lakes Marion and Moultrie (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR H ENERGY Clyburn
2008 NE $1,968,000 University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha to conduct nanoscale imaging of proteins (Department of Energy: Science) NBR S ENERGY Hagel; Ben Nelson
2008 TN $4,901,000 Cordell Hull Dam and Reservoir (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 WA $1,514,000 Everett Harbor and Snohomish River (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Cantwell; Murray
2008 OH $282,000 Cuyahoga Community College, Veterans Outreach and Business Development Center (Small Business Administration) NBR H FINSER Tubbs Jones
2008 PA $1,000,000 Sandy Creek Township, City of Franklin (FEMA Predisaster Mitigation) NBR C HS John Peterson
2008 DC $738,300 National Law Enforcement Memorial Act, P.L 106-492 (National Park Service – National Recreation and Preservation) NBR C INT Hoyer, James Moran
2008 KS $492,200 Great Bend for 10th Street sewer line repairs (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR S INT Brownback
2008 CA $487,000 Mendocino Coast District Hospital, Fort Bragg, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Thompson, (CA) Mike
2008 CA $185,000 Clovis Unified School District, for curriculum development (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Radanovich, George; Nunes, Devin
2008 MN $146,000 West Side Community Health Services, St. Paul, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS McCollum (MN), Betty
2008 MD $97,000 College of Southern Maryland, LaPlata, for nursing education (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Hoyer, Steny
2008 WA $243,000 University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, for the James R. Slater Museum of Natural History (Institute of Museum and Library Services – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Dicks, Norman
2008 UT $146,000 Weber State University, Ogden, for the TAPT program to recruit additional teachers (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Bishop (UT), Rob Hatch
2008 PA $73,000 Pittsburgh Airport Area Chamber of Commerce Enterprise Foundation, for workforce development (Employment and Training Administration – Department of Labor) NBR S LABHHS Specter
2008 SD $658,000 Medicare Chronic Care Practice Research Network, Sioux Falls for the Medicare Coodinated Care Demo Project (Center for Mental Health Services – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Johnson
2008 TN $97,000 KIPP Foundation, San Francisco for student programs and extended learning time in Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Alexander
2008 AK $274,400 Food Bank of Alaska Mat-Su branch purchase (Economic Development Initiative) NBR THUD Young (AK) Murkowski
2008 ID $490,000 FH-24, Banks to Lowman Federal lands (Public Lands Highways) NBR THUD Sali Craig
2008 CT $147,000 Simsbury Public Library for renovation and buildout of the library (Economic Development Initiative) NBR THUD Murphy (CT) Lieberman
2008 GA $2,940,000 Acuisition of MARTA Clean Fuel Buses (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR THUD Kingston, Lewis Chambliss, Isakson
2008 NJ $49,000 Hillsborough Township for construction of a community center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Ferguson
2008 TX $137,200 City of Temple, downtown redevelopment/Performing Arts Centre (Economic Development Initiative) NBR THUD Carter Hutchison
2008 IN $656,600 Pigeon Creek Greenway passage: Phase I, Evansville (Transportation & Community & System Preservation) NBR S THUD Bayh
2008 VA $294,000 Fairfax County, to develop and build 15-30 units of single room occupancy housing for the chronically homeless (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S THUD Warner, Webb
2008 UT $2,128,992 Washington Fields (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Conservation Technical Assistance Projects) NBR AG Matheson Bennett, Hatch
2008 IA $316,767 Tallgrass Prairie Center – Native Seed Testing Lab (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Conservation Technical Assistance Projects) NBR AG Braley Grassley, Harkin
2008 KY $47,000 Father Mahoney's Boy's Haven Life Skills Program, Louisville (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR H COM Yarmouth
2008 MD $669,750 State of Maryland, Annapolis, for equipment to attain interoperability among all state law enforcement agencies as well as local jurisdictions (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Ruppersberger Cardin
2008 CA $188,000 Richmond Youth Academy (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR H COM Miller (George)
2008 MD $1,786,000 University of Maryland, Baltimore County, for environmental remote sensing (NASA) NBR COM Hoyer, Ruppersberger Mikulski
2008 CO $267,900 City of Denver for a gang task force (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR COM DeGette Allard, Salazar (Ken)
2008 IL $94,000 McHenry County Integrated Criminal Justice Information System (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Bean
2008 CA $312,550 City of San Bernardino for a school-based partnership to provide gang resistance education/training (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR S COM Boxer
2008 $2,400,000 Satellite Active Imaging National Testbed Program (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR DEF Wilson (NM) Bingaman, Domenici
2008 $750,000 National Guard Global Education Project (Operation and Maintenance – Army Reserve National Guard) NBR DEF Rothman Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 $2,400,000 Micromachined switches for next generation modular satellites (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR H DEF Miller, George
2008 $1,600,000 Plasma-sphere array for flexible electronics (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR H DEF Kaptur
2008 $1,600,000 Future TCC hardware/software integration (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Everett Sessions, Shelby
2008 TX $2,500,000 Institute for Science and Engineering Simulation (ISES)/aircraft fatigue modeling and simulation (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR DEF Burgess Hutchison
2008 $2,080,000 High energy battery for Unmanned Aerial System (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR S DEF Bayh, Lugar
2008 $8,000,000 Hybrid Engine Development Program for the Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Fleet (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF Levin
2008 OR $196,800 South Jetty and Clatsop Spit (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR ENERGY Wu Wyden; Smith
2008 AZ $295,200 Rio Salado, Oeste, Salt River (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR H ENERGY Pastor
2008 NJ $1,476,000 NASI and NA-SQ powder hydrogen fuel cells (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR ENERGY Holt Lautenberg; Menendez

Legend

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