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 $2,000,000 Force protection applied research (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR S DEF Martinez
2008 $4,800,000 Versatile affordable advanced turbine engine, high speed turbine engine demonstrator (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR S DEF Bennett, Hatch
2008 MI $804,000 St. Joseph Harbor (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR ENERGY Upton Levin; Stabenow
2008 NC $59,040 Lake Rogers, Creedmoor, North Carolina (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR H ENERGY Miller, Brad
2008 AZ $4,566,744 Nogales Wash (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY Grijalva Kyl
2008 TX $3,478,000 Town Bluff Dam, B.A. Steinhagen Lake (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR H ENERGY Brady, Kevin
2008 NM $492,000 Hatch (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR S ENERGY Domenici, Bingaman
2008 MI $607,000 Grand Haven Harbor (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Levin; Stabenow
2008 LA $107,256 Plaquemines Parish (FC) (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR S ENERGY Landrieu
2008 WA $400,000 Northwest Agriculture Business Center, Burlington (Small Business Administration) NBR FINSER Larsen Murray
2008 $50,000,000 REAL ID Grants NBR H HS
2008 Multi-State $2,411,780 Rural Community Assistance Partnership (EPA – Environmental Programs and Management) NBR INT Duncan, Hobson Bingaman, Sherrod Brown, Coleman, Klobuchar, Conrad, Leahy, Harkin, Mikulski, Landrieu, Crapo, Grassley, Kerry, Carl Levin, Lincoln, Pryor, Ken Salazar, Sanders, Gordon Smith, Tester, Voinovich, Wyden
2008 OK $246,100 Wintersmith Dam (National Park Service – Save America's Treasures) NBR C INT Inhofe
2008 ID $292,000 Learning Point Association/North Central Regional Education Laboratory, Naperville (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Simpson, Michael Crapo
2008 NM $195,000 Adelante Development Center, Albuquerque, for employment and training services (Employment and Training Administration – Department of Labor) NBR LABHHS Pearce, Steven Domenici
2008 IL $487,000 Catholic Charities, Chicago, for vocational training and support programs at the Saint Leo Residence for Veterans (Employment and Training Administration – Department of Labor) NBR LABHHS Lipinski, Daniel Durbin
2008 NC $390,000 Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Hayes, Robin Dole, Burr
2008 WY $243,000 Wind River Community Health Center, Riverton, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Cubin, Barbara Enzi
2008 ME $487,000 Women Work and Community, Augusta, for a women's workforce training and development program (Employment and Training Administration – Department of Labor) NBR LABHHS Allen, Thomas Collins, Snowe
2008 NE $975,000 Charles Drew Health Center, Inc., Omaha, for construction, renovation, and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Ben Nelson
2008 $13,000,000 Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, Inc. for develop., product., & circulation of recorded ed. Materials (Special Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Harkin
2008 KS $8,300,000 MXG consolidation and forward logistics center, McConnell AFB (Air Force) NBR C MILCON Tiahrt Brownback
2008 NY $490,000 New York State Foundation and Research Network in Troy for development of a Disaster Recovery and Busines Continuation Facility (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Walsh
2008 WA $490,000 FAST Corridor grade separations (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR H THUD Reichert, Smith
2008 WA $490,000 U.S. 395, North Spokane Corridor (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR THUD McMorris Rodgers Murray, Cantwell
2008 IL $588,000 CTA Red Line extension (Alternatives Analysis) NBR H THUD Jackson
2008 TX $588,000 Alsbury Boulevard extension, Burleston (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR H THUD Edwards
2008 PA $147,000 Josephone Solomon Ellis Foundation, Inc. in Philadelphia for acquisition, renovation and construction of affordable housing for senior citizens (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Brady
2008 HI $196,000 Kipahulu Community Association, Inc, Hana, for the Kipahulu Certified Kitchen (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S THUD Inouye
2008 OH $294,000 Goodrich-Gannett Neighborhood Center, Cleveland, to renovate and construct a new childcare/family services center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S THUD Voinovich
2008 LA $1,519,290 Phytoestrogen Research, New Orleans (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses) NBR AG Jefferson, Jindal, Kaptur, Melancon Landrieu, Vitter
2008 WI $442,878 Babcock Institute (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Special Research Grants) NBR H AG Baldwin
2008 NY $235,000 Project for Public Spaces preservation and revitalization of the Moore Street Market (Minority Business Development Agency) NBR H COM Velazquez
2008 NY $446,500 Abyssinian Development Corporation, New York, to support and expand youth and young adult after-school and summer programs (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR COM Rangel Schumer, Clinton
2008 MA $223,250 Middlesex Community College to expand regional technology training (Law Enforcement Collaborative (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Markey Kerry, Kennedy (Edward)
2008 FL $728,500 ARISE Foundation (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR COM Hastings (Alcee), Crenshaw, Wasserman Schultz Diaz Balart (Lincoln), Mahoney Nelson (Bill), Martinez
2008 OK $235,000 East Central University, Ada, for forensics equipment (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Cole Inhofe
2008 AL $1,410,000 University of Alabama, Huntsville, to provide research into the combustion behavior of liquid oxygen (NASA). NBR S COM Shelby
2008 MT $446,500 Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Hill County, for upgrades to infrastructure equipment and rehabilitation of detention center (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR S COM Baucus, Tester
2008 NM $800,000 EDIT advanced shallow subsurface tunnel, bunker and cache detection (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR DEF Udall (NM), Wilson (NM) Domenici
2008 NV $1,600,000 Online Technology Training Program at Nellis Air Force Base (Operation and Maintenance – Air Force) NBR DEF Porter Reid
2008 $1,000,000 Antioxidant micronutrient therapeutic countermeasures for chemical agents (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR H DEF McCarthy (NY)
2008 $5,000,000 High energy conventional energetics (Phase One) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Hoyer Bingaman, Cardin, Domenici, Mikulski
2008 WA $3,200,000 Research infrastructure for the Applied Physics Laboratory (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Dicks, McDermott Cantwell
2008 $1,000,000 Northwest Manufacturing Initiative (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR DEF Blumenauer, Baird, DeFazio, Hooley, Wu Smith, Murray, Wyden
2008 $960,000 Advanced engineered non-linear optical materials for critical wavelengths (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF Baucus, Tester
2008 $4,800,000 Joint Directed Energy Test Site – IED Defeat (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF Bingaman, Domenici
2008 NM $7,395,000 Cochiti Lake (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR ENERGY Udall, Tom Bingaman; Domenici
2008 NC $984,000 Nanostructural materials for safe alternative energy (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR ENERGY Miller, B.; Price, D. Dole
2008 TX $382,776 Texas Hydrogen Highway (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR H ENERGY Green, G.; Lampson

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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