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 AK $243,000 Alaska Native Heritage Center, Anchorage, for a partnership with Koahnic Broadcasting for a Native Values project (Institute of Museum and Library Services – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Stevens
2008 MT $906,000 Readiness center, Miles City (Army National Guard) NBR C MILCON Rehberg
2008 MI $245,000 Kalamazoo Metro Transit (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR H THUD Upton
2008 FL $196,000 Polk County, Florida Community Center Project for construction of a community center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Putnam
2008 LA $245,000 SporTran Buses for the City of Shreveport (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR THUD McCrery Vitter, Landrieu
2008 MA $294,000 Housing Partnership Network, Inc of Boston for capitalization of a revolving loan fund for affordable housing (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Hoyer
2008 TX $147,000 City of Austin for streetscape and facade improvements as part of the East Austin Facade Improvement Project (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Doggett, Smith
2008 OK $490,000 Sequoyah Refuge Road, Sequoyah Federal lands (Public Lands Highways) NBR H THUD Boren
2008 IN $328,300 City of Columbus, Golden Castings Foundry Demolition and Site Remediation Project (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S THUD Bayh
2008 WA $490,000 Des Moines Creek Trail Access Project (Transportation & Community & System Preservation) NBR S THUD Murray, Cantwell
2008 OR $769,575 Shellfish Genetics Research, Newport (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses) NBR AG Hooley Murray, Smith (OR), Wyden
2008 LA $142,992 Union-Lincoln Regional Water Supply Initiative (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Conservation Technical Assistance Projects) NBR AG Alexander (LA) Landrieu, Vitter
2008 KS $470,000 Sedgwick County District Attorney's Office (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR COM Tiahrt Brownback
2008 NC $376,000 Center for Sustainable Life Support for Human Space Exploration (NASA) NBR COM Price (David) Dole
2008 NY $47,000 Haverstraw Police Department equipment (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Lowey
2008 TX $446,500 A Child is Missing, Texas (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM Granger
2008 KY $329,000 Lexington Police Air Support Unit (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Chandler
2008 MD $658,000 National Fatherhood Initiative, Gaithersburg, for fathers of the most at-risk children (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR S COM Shelby
2008 DE $44,650 City of Newark Police Department for drug prevention units (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR S COM Biden, Carper
2008 KS $1,000,000 Unmanned Air Vehicle Technology Evaluation Program (Operation and Maintenance – Air National Guard) NBR H DEF Tiahrt
2008 $1,200,000 Improving musculoskeletal health & function (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Pence, Visclosky Lugar
2008 $2,000,000 Aging systems sustainment and enabling technologies (ASSET) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR DEF Lucas Inhofe
2008 $1,600,000 Chem-Big integrated materials for tent structures (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Hodes Gregg, Sununu
2008 $1,500,000 Dual use technologies for bio-defense (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR H DEF Diaz Balart, Mario
2008 $850,000 MILS separation kernel technology development (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Bilirakis, Capps
2008 $1,000,000 Semi-submersible UUV (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR S DEF Vitter
2008 NM $2,500,000 Playas Mobile Command, Control and Communication Shelter (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR S DEF Bingaman, Domenici
2008 KS $516,000 El Dorado Lake (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR H ENERGY Tiahrt
2008 NC $377,856 Brunswick County beaches (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY McIntyre Dole; Burr
2008 PA $492,000 Lightweight power supply development (Department of Energy: Science) NBR H ENERGY Gerlach
2008 CA $147,600 Whitewater River Basin (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR H ENERGY Bono
2008 OK $3,444,000 Tar Creek cleanup (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR S ENERGY Inhofe
2008 KY $912,000 Martins Fork Lake (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 FL $12,925,000 Central and Southern Florida (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 TX $282,000 The University of Texas at San Antonio, UTSA Mexico Center, business development research (Small Business Administration) NBR H FINSER Gonzalez
2008 KS $295,320 Brown v. Board of Education Foundation (National Park Service – National Recreation and Preservation) NBR INT Tiahrt Brownback
2008 CT $135,847 The Town of Prospect for the College Farms Subdivision (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR H INT DeLauro
2008 NV $295,320 Western Shoshone Claims Act, Implementation (Bureau of Indian Affairs – Tribal Government) NBR S INT Reid
2008 PA $204,000 Widener University, Chester, for school-readiness programs (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Sestak, Joe Specter
2008 WI $487,000 Bad River Tribe of Lake Superior Chippewa, Odanah, for a health clinic (Health Resources and Services Administration) NBR H LABHHS Obey, David
2008 CA $146,000 Inst. for the Adv. Stdy of Black Families, Oakland, for integrated HIV/AIDS and subst. abuse prev. with African Amer. women and teenagers (Center for Substance Abuse Prevention – DHSS) NBR H LABHHS Lee, Barbara
2008 IL $429,000 St. Anthony Hospital, Chicago, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Gutierrez, Luis
2008 MI $585,000 Focus: HOPE, Detroit, to support undergraduate education and training (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Conyers, John; Levin, Sander; Kilpatrick, Carolyn Levin, Stabenow
2008 MA $146,000 SouthCoastConnected, New Bedford, for implementation of the Drop the Drop-Out Rate Initiative (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Kennedy, Kerry
2008 UT $48,000 Bear River Health Department, Logan, for the Medical Reserve Corps Program (Health Resources and Services Administration) NBR S LABHHS Hatch
2008 IN $78,000 Fathers and Families Center, Indianapolis (Social Services – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Bayh
2008 MS $6,770,000 Fire station, Meridian Naval Air Station (Navy) NBR MILCON Pickering Cochran, Lott
2008 MI $98,000 Berrian County, Transit (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR THUD Upton Levin, Stabenow
2008 FL $294,000 Winter Haven Transit Bus and Bus Facility (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR H THUD Putnam
2008 LA $1,775,760 Bossier Parish Congestion Relief Program (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR THUD McCrery Landrieu, Vitter

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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