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 $500,000 AVT234 Target Motion Cueing (TMC) integration kits (Other Procurement – Air Force) NBR H DEF Reynolds
2008 $1,000,000 Responsive textiles (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Meehan Kerry
2008 $1,200,000 Enhanced tracking and asset control (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Johnson, Sam Sessions
2008 $4,000,000 Micro-munitions interface for tactical unmanned systems (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Ehlers Levin, Stabenow
2008 $800,000 MB71 Series Trailer Refurbishment Program (Other Procurement – Army) NBR H DEF Boyda
2008 $2,400,000 Excalibur (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF Warner, Webb
2008 AK $20,000,000 Red Flag PARC upgrades (Other Procurement – Air Force) NBR S DEF Stevens
2008 FL $147,600 Canaveral Harbor (Sand Bypass) (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR H ENERGY Weldon
2008 WI $1,563,576 Lake Superior Small Harbor dredging (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR H ENERGY Obey
2008 HI $244,032 Kahoolawe Harbor (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY Hirono Inouye; Akaka
2008 CA $246,000 Santa Clara Watershed (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR H ENERGY Capps; Gallegly; McKeon
2008 DE $95,448 Delaware Bay Coastline, Roosevelt Inlet to Lewes Beach (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR S ENERGY Biden; Carper
2008 OR $255,000 Coquille River (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Smith; Wyden
2008 WI $451,000 Surveillance of Northern Boundary Waters (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 MT $583,000 Montana World Trade Center (Small Business Administration) NBR H FINSER Rehberg
2008 KY $650,000 City of Cumberland (FEMA Predisaster Mitigation) NBR C HS Harold Rogers
2008 KY $1,870,360 Cumberland Gap National Historic Park, Fern Lake (National Park Service – Land Acquisition) NBR INT Harold Rogers McConnell
2008 MS $98,440 The City of Fulton for wastewater improvements project (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR S INT Cochran
2008 OH $195,000 Ohio University, Athens, for the Appalachian Healthcare Screen Program (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Space, Zachary Brown
2008 TX $195,000 Memorial Hermann Baptist Beaumont Hospital, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Poe, Ted
2008 IL $195,000 Rockford College, for technology upgrades and other equipment (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Manzullo, Donald
2008 NH $316,000 Bi-State Primary Care Association, Concord, to treat uninsured patients (Center for Mental Health Services – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Hodes, Paul Sanders, Gregg
2008 GA $308,000 Georgia Chapter of the American Lung Association, Smyrna, to study residential floor coverings and airborne particulates (Centers for Disease Control – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Deal (GA), Nathan
2008 CA $170,000 Families in Schools, Los Angeles, for its Read with Me/Lea Conmigo Family Literacy Program (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Becerra, Xavier
2008 HI $2,340,000 Maui Community College Remote Rural Hawaii Job Training Project (Employment and Training Administration – Department of Labor) NBR S LABHHS Inouye
2008 PA $87,000 Moravian College, Bethlehem, for a science initiative (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Specter
2008 MA $180,000 Holyoke Hospital, for equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Kennedy, Kerry
2008 FL $147,000 City of Tamarac for expansion, renovation and buildout of a recreational facility (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Wexler
2008 NJ $196,000 Northern New Jersey Intermodal Stations & Park-N-Ride (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR THUD Rothman, Frelinghuysen Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 AZ $980,000 Indian Bend Road improvements, Scottsdale (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR H THUD Mitchell
2008 OH $245,000 City of Toledo for construction, renovation and buildout in low-income neighborhoods (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Kaptur
2008 PA $490,000 Butler Multi-Model Transit Center (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR H THUD English
2008 UT $411,600 City of Eagle Mountain for park development to complete Phase I of the economic development area in Eagle Mountain City (Economic Development Initiative) NBR THUD Cannon Hatch, Bennett
2008 MI $656,600 New Center Council Inc., Detroit, for infrastructure improvements (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S THUD Levin, Stabenow
2008 MS $686,000 Tallahatchie County Board of Supervisors, Sumner, for restoration of the Tallahatchie County Courthouse (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S THUD Cochran
2008 IA $846,036 Corn Germplasm, Ames (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses) NBR AG Latham Cochran, Harkin
2008 OR $269,103 Molluscan Shellfish (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Special Research Grants) NBR AG Blumenauer, Hooley Smith (OR), Wyden
2008 VT $282,000 City of Barre Police Department Drug Law Enforcement Education and Treatment Program (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM Welch
2008 AL $94,000 Tallapoosa County Sheriff's Office (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM Rogers (Mike) AL
2008 WA $352,500 Spokane County Sheriff's Office (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR COM McMorris, Rodgers Murray
2008 PA $244,400 Dauphin County Social Services for Children & Youth independent living mentor families (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR H COM Holden
2008 MD $3,572,000 Chesapeake Information Based Aeronautics Consortium, for a partnership of Morgan State Univ., Univ. of MD Eastern Shore and Bowie State Univ. for continued aviation safety research and development (NASA) NBR H COM Cummings, Ruppersberger
2008 ME $188,000 Lobster Institute CORE Initiative (NOAA) NBR COM Allen Collins, Snowe
2008 RI $133,950 Town of Westerly for communications equipment to improve community policing capabilities (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR S COM Reed
2008 $2,400,000 Remote Multi-Mission Vehicle ASW mission module for LCS (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR H DEF Walsh
2008 $500,000 Autonomous and semi-autonomous manipulation for ground robots (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR H DEF Reynolds
2008 $800,000 Accelerated DT&E of affordable robust mid-sized UGV's for defense & homeland security applications (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR DEF Meehan Kennedy
2008 IL $2,000,000 Nanomedical technologies research (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Johnson (IL) Obama
2008 $800,000 Stand-off biochemical agent detection (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR H DEF Edwards
2008 KS $500,000 Leadership for Leaders at Cultural Geography Speciality Group (CGSC) and Kansas State University (Operation and Maintenance – Army) NBR DEF Boyda Brownback

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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