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 $480,000 Robotic manipulators for explosive ordnance disposal (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF Enzi
2008 $2,500,000 High Altitude Airship (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF Brown
2008 CA $984,000 Contra Costa Water District, alternative intake (Bureau of Reclamation: Water and Related Resources) NBR H ENERGY Tauscher
2008 NC $5,494,000 Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR ENERGY McIntyre Dole; Burr
2008 NJ $3,444,000 Upper Passaic River and Tributaries, Long Hill Township (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY Frelinghuysen Lautenberg; Menendez
2008 OR $161,376 Williamette River Environmental dredging (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR ENERGY Blumenauer; Wu Wyden; Smith
2008 SC $34,440 Follybeach (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY
2008 LA $5,153,000 Freshwater Bayou (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Landrieu
2008 FL $1,866,000 Okeechobee Waterway (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 NY $282,000 Rockland Small Business Development Center, Small Business Employment Assistance (Small Business Administration) NBR H FINSER Engel
2008 TN $344,540 Memphis Area Regional Aquifer Partnership (United States Geological Survey – Surveys, Investigation and Research) NBR INT Tanner Lamar Alexander
2008 TN $3,051,640 Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee Mountains (Forest Service – Land Acquisition) NBR INT David Davis Lamar Alexander
2008 CA $4,922,000 San Francisco Bay Wetlands Restoration Grants (EPA – Environmental Programs and Management) NBR S INT Feinstein
2008 TX $316,000 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, for purchase of equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Sessions, Pete Hutchison
2008 WI $487,000 Bridge Community Health Clinic, Wausau, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration) NBR H LABHHS Obey, David
2008 OH $146,000 Hospice of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, for a pediatric care program (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS LaTourette, Steven Voinovich
2008 TX $219,000 Gateway to Care, Houston, for health information technology (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Green, Gene
2008 OK $624,000 Norman Regional Health System, for telehealth and electronic medical records initiatives (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Cole (OK), Tom Inhofe
2008 SD $97,000 South Dakota Symphony, Sioux Falls, for educational outreach to Native Americans (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Johnson
2008 CA $409,000 San Diego County, Santee, to purchase equipment for Edgemoor Hospital renovation (Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Feinstein
2008 PA $87,000 Community Services for Children Inc., Allentown, for early childhood development services (Social Services – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Specter
2008 MN $12,600,000 Combined arms collective training facility, PH2, Camp Ripley (Army National Guard) NBR C MILCON Oberstar Coleman, Klobuchar
2008 NM $955,500 Northwest Loop Access Road, Sandoval County (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR THUD Udall Domenici, Bingaman
2008 OH $490,000 Scioto Mile River Level Park Project (Transportation & Community & System Preservation) NBR THUD Pryce Voinovich
2008 MN $882,000 I-35W reconstruction design, New Brighton (Interstate Maintenance Discretionary) NBR THUD McCollum Klobuchar
2008 MD $980,000 U.S. 301 improvement in Charles and Prince George's County (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR THUD Hoyer Mikulski
2008 MI $980,000 Detroit Metro-Wayne County Airport Taxiway Kilo Rehabilitation (Airport Improvement Program) NBR H THUD Dingell
2008 AL $735,000 Mobile Downtown Airport Ramp Rehabilitation and Drain Repair (Airport Improvement Program) NBR C THUD Bonner Sessions
2008 AL $686,000 City of Hamilton, Fulton Bridge Industrial Park (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S THUD Shelby
2008 MS $1,960,000 Runway Obstruction Warning System, Gulfport (Facilities and Equipment) NBR S THUD Cochran
2008 HI $123,132 Wailuka-Alenaio Watershed (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations) NBR AG Hirono Akaka, Inouye
2008 IA $142,992 Watershed Demonstration Project (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Conservation Technical Assistance Projects) NBR S AG Grassley, Harkin
2008 MS $211,500 Jackson County Sheriff's Office Methamphetamine Initiative (Methamphetamine Enforcement and Clean Up – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Taylor Lott
2008 NC $376,000 Durham Police Department Forensic Unit (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM Price (David)
2008 NY $47,000 Pace University Women's Justice Center, White Plains (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR COM Lowey Clinton
2008 VA $164,500 Amherst County (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Goodlatte
2008 FL $564,000 Temple Terrace Phoenix House (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR COM Castor, Bilirakis Nelson (Bill)
2008 CT $188,000 Save the Children, Westport, to operate after school programs in New Mexico communities (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR S COM Domenici, Bingaman
2008 DE $223,250 Delaware Office of Highway Safety, Dover, to purchase equipment and implement sobriety check points (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR S COM Biden, Carper
2008 KS $1,200,000 Continuous Integrated Vehicle Health Monitoring System (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR H DEF Tiahrt
2008 $2,000,000 Operator Situational Awareness System – MEDEVAC (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Pelosi
2008 $1,600,000 Smart visor (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Lowery Clinton, Schumer
2008 $1,600,000 Imaging tools for human performance enhancement and diagnostics (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR DEF Hobson Brown, Voinovich
2008 $1,000,000 EA-6B ALQ-99 Band 5/6 TWT driver modification (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Dent Casey, Specter
2008 $1,000,000 Diamond MEMS sensors for real-time sensing weaponized pathogens (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR H DEF Biggert
2008 $700,000 UNR-millimeter wave-based fatigue countermeasure technology (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR S DEF Reid
2008 AK $2,500,000 Alaska National Guard Counter-Drug Program (Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities) NBR S DEF Stevens
2008 TN $98,400 Sandy Creek (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR H ENERGY Tanner
2008 NY $295,200 SUNY-OSWEGO Energy Independence (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR ENERGY McHugh Schumer; Clinton
2008 AZ $2,952,000 Colorado River Transmission Line (Department of Energy: Western Area Power Administration) NBR H ENERGY Franks

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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