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 LA $738,000 The Gulf Petro Initiative (Department of Energy: Fossil Energy Research & Development) NBR ENERGY Boustany Vitter
2008 WY $516,600 Mt. Diablo (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY
2008 LA $23,370,000 Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Landrieu; Vitter
2008 MI $430,008 Great Lakes Remedial Action Plans (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR S ENERGY Obama; Lugar; Levin; Stabenow; Coleman; Schumer; Clinton; Voinovich; Brown; Kohl
2008 IL $282,000 Abraham Lincoln National Airport Commission, Minority and Small Business Development and Procurement Opportunities (Small Business Administration) NBR H FINSER Jackson
2008 Multi-State $403,604 Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (United States Fish and Wildlife Service – Land Acquisition) NBR INT Walz Coleman, Klobuchar, Harkin
2008 WA $590,640 The City of Monitor, Chelan County Public Utilities District, for drinking water upgrades (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR INT Doc Hastings Murray, Cantwell
2008 SD $246,100 Grand Opera House, Dell Rapids (National Park Service – Save America's Treasures) NBR S INT Tim Johnson
2008 IL $195,000 Sparks College, Shelbyville, for a closed captioner training program (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Shimkus, John Obama
2008 AZ $341,000 Maricopa County Community College, Tempe, for the Bilingual Nursing Program at Gateway Community College in Phoenix (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Pastor, Ed
2008 CA $292,000 San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools, for the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Initiative (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Lewis (CA), Jerry
2008 IL $292,000 Provena Saint Joseph Hospital, Elgin, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Hastert
2008 AL $73,000 HEALS Dental Clinic, Huntsville, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Cramer, Robert Shelby
2008 AL $341,000 Gadsen State Community College, Gadsen, for technology upgrades (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Aderholt, Robert; Rogers, Mike
2008 AK $195,000 Stone Soup Group, Anchorage, to continue and expand services to Alaskans with autism in Alaska (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Stevens
2008 $5,000,000 National Civilian Corps for the acquisition and startup of two residential campuses in Vicksburg and Vinton (Corp. for National and Communtiy Service – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Cochran, Harkin
2008 PA $675,000 Army reserve center, Letterkenny Army Depot (Army Reserve) NBR MILCON Shuster Casey, Specter
2008 MI $343,000 ITA bus replacement, Jackson (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR H THUD Walberg
2008 MN $490,000 Highway 610 Corridor (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR THUD Ramstad Klobuchar, Coleman
2008 MA $490,000 Atleboro Intermodal Center (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR THUD McGovern Kennedy, Kerry
2008 WA $147,000 City of Edmonds for renovation of the Edmunds Center for the Arts (Economic Development Initiative) NBR THUD Inslee Murray
2008 VA $98,000 Eastern Shore Community College in Melfa for additional laboratory, related equipment and infrastructure development (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Drake
2008 FL $710,500 Mahan Drive Phase II, Leon County (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR THUD Boyd Nelson
2008 RI $328,300 Urban League of Rhode Island, South Providence Neighborhood Center Building Project (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S THUD Reed
2008 NY $196,000 Community Church of Christ, Jamaica, Sean Bell Memorial Field of Dreams (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S THUD Schumer, Clinton
2008 MD $320,739 Johne's Disease, Beltsville (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses) NBR AG Hoyer Cardin, Mikulski
2008 Multi-State $368,403 Apple Fire Blight [Ml, NY] (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Special Research Grants) NBR AG Arcuri, Ehlers, Hinchey, Hoekstra, Rogers, Upton, Walberg, Walsh Clinton, Levin, Schumer, Stabenow
2008 OH $178,600 Improved Solutions for Urban Systems, Dayton, for an employment program for court-involved youth (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR COM Turner Brown (Sherrod), Voinovich
2008 WV $282,000 Wayne County Sheriff's Office (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Rahall
2008 NY $47,000 YMCA of Greater New York (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR COM Maloney Schumer
2008 NY $521,700 Kiryas Joel security equipment and emergency services technology (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Hall (John) Schumer
2008 SC $188,000 DIVA Inc. Domestic Violence Initiative, Columbia (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM Clyburn
2008 MD $3,572,000 Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, Baltimore, for continued construction of a broadband link between the Wallops Island Flight Facility and the Patuxent River Naval Air Station (NASA) NBR S COM Mikulski, Cardin
2008 ID $47,000 Bonneville County Sheriff's Office Children's Identification & Location Database (CHILD) Project (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR S COM Craig, Crapo
2008 $1,000,000 Development of a High Performance Computing System based on a modem high speed switch fabric (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Towns Clinton, Schumer
2008 $2,080,000 Advanced long endurance unattended ground sensor technologies (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR DEF Pickering Cochran, Lott
2008 $2,400,000 Nuclear test seismic research (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR DEF Markey Cardin, Leahy, Kerry
2008 $800,000 Research of advanced communications technologies for enhanced secure, mobile, networked communications (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Holt
2008 $1,000,000 Advanced Navy Boat Lift (13,000 – 24,000 lbs.) research and development (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR H DEF Dicks
2008 GA $1,600,000 Technological Regional Center of Excellence for PTSD (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Bishop (GA)
2008 $800,000 Amelioration of military hearing loss (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR S DEF Baucus, Tester
2008 $6,100,000 Performance enhancements for information assurance and information systems (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR S DEF Cochran, Lott
2008 Multi-State $246,000 Rio Grande Basin, NM, CO & TX (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR ENERGY Udall, T. Domenici; Bingaman
2008 NY $234,192 Atlantic Coast of NYC, East Rockaway Inlet to Rockaway & Jamaica Bay (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY Meeks; Weiner Schumer; Clinton
2008 OH $590,400 Coastal wind Ohio (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR H ENERGY Gillmor; Kaptur
2008 LA $295,200 Southwest coastal hurricane protection (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR ENERGY Boustany Landrieu; Vitter
2008 WY $444,768 Jackson Hole Environmental Restoration (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR S ENERGY Thomas
2008 MI $460,000 Holland Harbor (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Levin; Stabenow
2008 Multi-State $78,720 Jennings Randolph Lake reallocation, MD AND WV (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR S ENERGY Mikulski; Cardin
2008 DC $300,000 Excel Institute, Automotive Workforce Development Training Program (District of Columbia) NBR H FINSER Hoyer, Knollenberg

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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