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 NC $3,200,000 Phase I clinical trials for infusible hemostatic agent (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Price (NC) Burr, Dole
2008 $900,000 Imaging Research Center (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF McCaul
2008 $1,000,000 Innovative, computational water-borne pathogen research for chemical/biological detection (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Hoyer Mikulski
2008 $1,200,000 Ultrasonic consolidation of embedded sensors (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Dingell Levin, Stabenow
2008 $4,800,000 Intelligent carbon nanotube based computer devices for space applications (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR DEF Blunt Bond
2008 $2,000,000 Integrated multi-target remote-sensing technology and its applications (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF Nelson (FL)
2008 $4,720,000 Vertical integration for missile defense surveillance data (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF Cochran, Lott
2008 MI $279,456 South Haven Harbor (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR ENERGY Upton Levin; Stabenow
2008 MI $138,744 Port Sanilac Harbor (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR ENERGY Miller, C. Levin; Stabenow
2008 AZ $1,476,000 Yuma East Wetlands (Bureau of Reclamation: Water and Related Resources) NBR ENERGY Grijalva; Pastor Kyl
2008 PA $2,755,200 Philadelphia Shipyard Sea Wall (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY Brady, R.; Murphy, T. Casey
2008 MS $492,000 Yazoo Diversion Canal (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR S ENERGY Cochran
2008 MI $935,000 Manistee Harbor (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Levin; Stabenow
2008 LA $196,800 St. Charles Parish urban flood control (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR S ENERGY Landrieu
2008 CT $282,000 Spanish American Merchants Association, Statewide Technical Assistance & Resource Program, Hartford, CT (Small Business Administration) NBR H FINSER Larson
2008 $3,100,000 Sector Buffalo (Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements) NBR C HS
2008 TX $98,440 Granbury Historic Opera House Theater (National Park Service – Save America's Treasures) NBR H INT Edwards
2008 NH $492,200 Littleton Opera House, Littleton (National Park Service – Save America's Treasures) NBR S INT Gregg
2008 ID $243,000 Teton Valley Hospital and Surgicenter, Driggs, for purchase of equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Simpson, Michael Crapo
2008 CA $292,000 Exploratorium San Francisco, for its Bay Area Science Teacher Recruitment, Retention and Improvement Initiative (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Pelosi, Nancy
2008 IL $316,000 Advocate Health Care, Oak Brook, for spec. and comp. psychotherapy and sup. to abused and negl. chldn and their families (Center for Mental Health Services – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Lipinski, Daniel
2008 NC $97,000 Union County Public Schools, Monroe, for equipment and technology needs for the technology academy (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Hayes, Robin
2008 WY $195,000 Central Wyoming College, Riverton, for the Virtual Medical Skills Center (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Cubin, Barbara
2008 PA $87,000 Heritage Valley Health System, Beaver, for construction (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Altmire, Jason Specter, Casey, Jr.
2008 PA $87,000 Children's Hospital of KidsPeace, Orefield, for construction and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Specter, Casey, Jr.
2008 IA $1,000,000 American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists for programs to improve the quality of orthotic and prosthetic research (Rehab Svcs. and Disability Research – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Harkin
2008 OH $640,000 Security forces operations facility, Wright-Patterson AFB (Air Force) NBR C MILCON Turner Voinovich
2008 NY $392,000 Village of Clyde for downtown lighting and other streetscape infrastructure improvements (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Walsh
2008 WA $147,000 Bethel School District in Spanaway for construction and buildout of a community center for seniors and youth (Economic Development Initiative) NBR THUD Reichert, Smith Murray, Cantwell
2008 WA $245,000 Inland Pacific Hub Analysis Project (Transportation Planning, Research, and Development) NBR THUD McMorris Rodgers Murray
2008 IL $98,000 Village of Riverdale for construction and renovation of the Pacesetter residential properties (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Jackson
2008 TX $392,000 CR 172 improvements, Grimes County (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR H THUD Edwards
2008 PA $392,000 Philadelphia Navy Yard Transit extension study (Alternatives Analysis) NBR H THUD Brady
2008 MO $735,000 Morningstar Community Development Corporation in Kansas City to construct a youth family center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S THUD Bond
2008 HI $196,000 Hawaii Nature Center Makiki Valley, Honolulu, Watershed Education Center Project (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S THUD Inouye
2008 IL $490,542 Future Foods (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Special Research Grants) NBR AG Johnson (IL), LaHood Durbin
2008 WI $851,994 Sand County Foundation (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Conservation Technical Assistance Projects) NBR AG Baldwin Kohl
2008 NY $94,000 Police Athletic League Miccio Center in Red Hook, Brooklyn (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR H COM Velazquez
2008 NY $188,000 Alianza Dominicana Inc. programs for at-risk youth New York (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR COM Rangel Clinton, Schumer
2008 GA $61,100 Tifton Police Department Neighborhood Watch Programs (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM Marshall
2008 WA $352,500 City of Yakima (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR COM Hastings (Doc) Murray
2008 TX $235,000 Midland (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Conaway
2008 AL $470,000 University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, to conduct the fundamental and applied research needed to develop effective near-space technologies for station-keeping (NASA) NBR S COM Shelby
2008 MI $223,250 City of Detroit for a program for parolees, technical parole violators, and ex-offenders (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR S COM Levin (Carl), Stabenow
2008 CO $1,000,000 Implantable Middle-Ear Hearing System (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Udall, (CO) Salazar
2008 $3,000,000 Unmanned air systems open architecture migration (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Porter, Hoyer Mikulski, Reid
2008 NY $3,200,000 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Women's Cancer Genomics Center (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF McCarthy (NY), Lowey
2008 $4,100,000 Network expansion & integration of Navy/NASA RDT&E ranges & facilities (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Hoyer Cardin, Mikulski
2008 $2,400,000 Operator Driving Simulators for the U.S. Army National Guard (Operation and Maintenance – Army Reserve National Guard) NBR DEF Dingell Levin, Stabenow, Warner, Webb
2008 $2,000,000 Brain, biology and machine applied research (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Blumenauer, DeFazio, Hooley, Walden, Wu Smith, Wyden

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