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 HI $33,907,000 Education for Native Hawaiians (School Improvement – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Inouye, Akaka
2008 TN $8,200,000 Communications training complex, Lovell Field (Air National Guard) NBR C MILCON Wamp
2008 TN $98,000 Tech2020 in Oak Ridge for construction of a Nanotechnology Commercialization Center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Wamp
2008 AZ $245,000 Safety improvements to Highway 69 (Transportation & Community & System Preservation) NBR H THUD Renzi
2008 NY $196,000 Unity House of Troy, Inc. for renovation and buildout of an emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence (Economic Development Initiative) NBR THUD McNulty Schumer, Clinton
2008 TX $490,000 Port Road expansion and improvements (Transportation & Community & System Preservation) NBR H THUD Jackson Lee, Lampson
2008 TX $196,000 White Bluff Intersection Widening Project, White Bluff (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR H THUD Edwards
2008 IA $196,000 City of Waterloo for renovation, construction and buildout of the Cedar Valley Techworks Technology Center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR THUD Braley Grassley
2008 MA $196,000 Mohawk Theater Restoration, North Adams (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S THUD Kennedy, Kerry
2008 CA $656,600 BART Intermodal Station Infrastructure Improvements to improve Bus Safety and Access (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR S THUD Feinstein
2008 OH $132,069 Hydroponic Production (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Special Research Grants) NBR AG Kaptur Brown (OH)
2008 AR $1,951,245 National Water Management Center (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Conservation Technical Assistance Projects) NBR H AG Berry
2008 IN $94,000 No Workshops No Jumpshots Program in Gary (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR H COM Visclosky
2008 OH $655,180 Wayne County Sheriff's Office (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Regula
2008 GA $329,000 City of Moultrie (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Marshall Chambliss, Isakson
2008 NV $940,000 Northern Nevada Anti-Meth Initiative (Methamphetamine Enforcement and Clean Up – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Heller
2008 MI $188,000 Wayne County Juvenile Reentry Initiative (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR COM Conyers, Kilpatrick Levin (Carl), Stabenow
2008 WV $2,679,000 Wheeling Jesuit University to expand the reach of the HealtheWV program, an electronic medical records system (NASA) NBR S COM Byrd
2008 DC $89,300 National Institute of Corrections, Washington, for a study to assess the need for a Nevada Indian tribal detention facility. (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR S COM Reid
2008 MD $1,000,000 USUHS WMD Collaborative Medical Readiness Training Initiative (Defense Health Program) NBR DEF Van Hollen Cardin
2008 $1,600,000 Radio Sensor Module (RASM) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Price (NC) Burr
2008 $1,600,000 Envelop protective covers (Other Procurement – Navy) NBR DEF McCollum Coleman, Durbin, Klobuchar
2008 $5,000,000 PEM fuel cell tactical generators (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Hoyer, Wynn Cardin, Mikulski
2008 $2,400,000 Special operational portable power source (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR DEF Dingell Levin, Stabenow
2008 $5,600,000 Self-Decontaminating Polymer System for Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR H DEF Blunt, Akin
2008 AK $1,600,000 Hibernation genomics (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF Stevens
2008 $5,000,000 Multi-sensor detect, see, & avoid (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR S DEF Reid
2008 NY $210,576 Hudson-Raritan-Estuary, Gowanus Canal (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR ENERGY Velazquez Schumer, Clinton
2008 CA $1,696,416 San Pablo Bay and Mare Island Strait (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR ENERGY Miller, G.; Tauscher Feinstein
2008 Multi-State $2,059,512 Red River below Denison Dam AR, LA & TX (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY Hall, R.; McCrery; Ross, M. Landrieu; Lincoln; Pryor
2008 IA $5,141,400 Lock and Dam Mississippi River (Major Rehab), (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY Braley Harkin; Bond; Grassley
2008 WA $14,504,160 Howard Hanson Dam ecosystem restoration (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR S ENERGY
2008 MI $174,000 Charlevoix Harbor (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Levin; Stabenow
2008 Multi-State $3,493,200 Red River of the North Basin, MN, ND, SD & Manitoba, CA (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR S ENERGY Dorgan
2008 DC $500,000 Barracks Row (District of Columbia) NBR H FINSER Lewis (CA)
2008 WV $3,600,000 Operation Systems Center (Coast Guard Alteration of Bridges) NBR S HS Byrd, Robert
2008 IN $492,200 The City of Evansville for the Mt. Auburn Neighborhood Sanitary Sewer System (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR INT Ellsworth Bayh, Lugar
2008 MA $1,968,800 Cape Cod National Seashore (National Park Service – Land Acquisition) NBR S INT Edward Kennedy, Kerry
2008 ID $243,000 College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, for the Pro-Tech Program (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Simpson, Michael Crapo
2008 CA $243,000 Envision Schools, San Francisco, for the Metropolitan Arts and Technology High School, which may include equipment (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Pelosi, Nancy
2008 IA $3,900,000 University of Iowa, Iowa City, an advanced biomedical research institute (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Loebsack, David Harkin, Grassley
2008 NV $195,000 Whitemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease, Sparks, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Heller, Dean; Berkley, Shelley; Sestak, Joe Ensign
2008 TX $429,000 Alamo Community College System, San Antonio, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration) NBR H LABHHS Cuellar, Henry
2008 PA $296,000 Jamerson Hospital, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Altmire, Joseph Specter, Casey
2008 MS $2,478,000 University of Mississippi, Oxford, for program development, start-up costs and curriculum (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Lott
2008 AK $33,907,000 Alaska Native Educational Equity Education Act (School Improvement – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Stevens
2008 MN $1,366,000 Field maintenance shop, Mankato (Army National Guard) NBR C MILCON Walz
2008 MN $343,000 Highway 14 from North Mankato to New Ulm (Transportation & Community & System Preservation) NBR THUD Walz Klobuchar
2008 AZ $735,000 Paving of FS-512 (Young Road) Federal Lands (Public Lands Highways) NBR H THUD Renzi
2008 CA $2,940,000 Rapid Transit (BART) Project, Livemore (Small Starts) NBR H THUD McNerney, Tauscher

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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