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 CA $975,000 University of California-Berkeley, for the Matsui Center for Politics and Public Service (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Lee, Barbara
2008 NY $195,000 Putnam Hospital Center, Carmel, for facilities and equipment (Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Hall (NY) John Clinton, Schumer
2008 TN $487,000 Meherry Medical College, Nashville, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Cooper, Jim
2008 $38,200,000 Arts in Education Program for model arts education and other activities (Innovation and Improvement – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Abercrombie, Neil Cochran, Bingaman, Kennedy
2008 PA $73,000 Beaver County, to implement educational programming for K-12 students (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Specter
2008 PA $87,000 Friends Assc. for Care and Protection of Children, W. Chester, for prog. to prov. safe sec. housing for chldn (Social Services – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Specter
2008 TX $1,000,000 Medical parking garage, Fort Bliss (Army) NBR C MILCON Reyes
2008 MI $490,000 Kalamazoo, Battle Creek Airport terminal (Airport Improvement Program) NBR H THUD Upton
2008 FL $294,000 Lakeland Area Mass Transit District (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR H THUD Putnam
2008 LA $147,000 Goodwill Industries of North Lousiana in Shreveport for renovation of a donated building (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD McCrery
2008 MD $392,000 Bel Alton High School Alimni Association for renovation, construction and buildout of a community center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Hoyer
2008 IN $343,000 U.S. 31 Freeway Upgrade Project in Marshall, Fulton, Miami and Tipton Counties (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR THUD Donnelly Lugar
2008 OK $490,000 United Keetowah Band Tribal Roads, Tahlequah Federal lands (Public Lands Highways) NBR H THUD Boren
2008 MN $735,000 City of Brown Valley, Brown Valley to aid in recovery efforts of a major flood (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S THUD Coleman
2008 VA $294,000 Jefferson Park Avenue Project, Charlottesville (Transportation & Community & System Preservation) NBR S THUD Warner, Webb
2008 MD $923,490 Dairy Genetics, Beltsville (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses) NBR AG Hoyer Cardin, Mikulski
2008 LA $112,209 Rural Development Centers (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Special Research Grants) NBR H AG Alexander (LA)
2008 KS $423,000 Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM Tiahrt
2008 NC $376,000 Raleigh Police Department interoperable communications technology (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Price (David), Etheridge Dole, Burr
2008 NY $47,000 New Rochelle Police Department Communications System (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Lowey
2008 TX $235,000 I Have a Dream Foundation (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR H COM Granger
2008 VI $658,000 Government of the Virgin Islands (Law Enforcement Technology (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Christensen
2008 MD $446,500 Safe and Sound Baltimore for juvenile delinquency prevention through education (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR S COM Mikulski
2008 CA $223,250 City of San Diego for a gun violence interdiction initiative (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR S COM Boxer
2008 KS $2,000,000 Next Generation Ice Protection Technologies System for UAVs (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Tiahrt Roberts
2008 $1,600,000 Rapid detection of bacterial pathogens (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR DEF Perlmutter Allard
2008 $4,000,000 Feature size migration at DMEA AMRS Boundary (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR DEF Lundgren Feinstein
2008 $1,600,000 Synthetic Auto Virtual Environment (SAVE) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Hodes Gregg
2008 FL $2,000,000 CSTARS (Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Diaz Balart, Mario Nelson (FL), Martinez
2008 $3,200,000 Common logistics operating environment (Operation and Maintenance – Army) NBR H DEF Bishop (GA)
2008 $1,000,000 Telerobotic and advanced minimally invasive surgery (Defense Health Program) NBR S DEF
2008 $5,600,000 High performance computing infrastructure enhancement (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR S DEF Lott
2008 Multi-State $196,800 Oologah Lake Watershed, OK & KS (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR ENERGY Tiahrt Inhofe
2008 NC $49,200 West Onslow Beach (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR C ENERGY McIntyre
2008 AZ $984,000 University of Arizona photovoltaic concentrator development (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR H ENERGY Giffords
2008 CA $1,812,528 Murrieta Creek (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY Bono; Calvert; Issa Feinstein
2008 Multi-State $1,665,912 Columbia River treaty fishing access sites, OR & WA (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR S ENERGY Wyden; Smith; Cantwell
2008 KY $951,000 Yatesville Lake (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 DE $399,000 Mispillion River (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Biden; Carper
2008 VA $250,000 Institute for Advanced Learning and Research for a business development initiative (Small Business Administration) NBR H FINSER Goode
2008 PA $492,200 The Township of Cecil, Cecil Township Municipal Authority for the Miller's Run Sewer System (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR H INT Tim Murphy
2008 KS $295,320 The City of Lenexa for storm water improvement project (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR INT Dennis Moore Brownback, Roberts
2008 ID $1,771,920 US-Canada Pacific Salmon Treaty program (Bureau of Indian Affairs – Natural Resources) NBR S INT Crapo
2008 CT $341,000 Bridgeport Hospital, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration) NBR LABHHS Shays, Christopher Dodd, Lieberman
2008 WI $204,000 Workforce Resource, Inc. Menomonee, for employment assistance (Employment and Training Administration – Department of Labor) NBR LABHHS Obey, David Kohl
2008 CA $487,000 City of Oakland, for facilities and equipment for a new youth center (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Lee, Barbara
2008 IL $195,000 Poder Learning Center, Chicago, for immigrant neighborhood education and job developent services (Employment and Training Administration – Department of Labor) NBR LABHHS Gutierrez, Luis Obama
2008 TN $195,000 Tenn. State U, Nashville, for construction, rennov., and equip. of an animal resreach facil. for biomed research (HRSA – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Cooper, Jim Alexander
2008 $32,485,000 Civic Education Program (Safe Schools and Citizenship Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Abercrombie, Davis, David, Dent, Dingell, Eshoo, Kildee, Kind, Matsui, Miller, Moran, Rahall Cochran
2008 PA $87,000 Sharon Regional Health Systems, for equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Specter

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