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 PA $87,000 Phildelphia Martin Luther King, Jr., Association for Nonviolence Inc., for its College for Teens Program (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Specter
2008 GA $5,000,000 Survival recovery center & command post, Robins AFB (Air Force) NBR C MILCON Marshall Chambliss, Isakson
2008 KS $294,000 City of Wichita for redevelopment of Dunbar Theater (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Tiahrt
2008 NV $245,000 Boulder City Bypass Project (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR THUD Porter Reid
2008 UT $490,000 I-15 Dixie Drive Interchange (Interstate Maintenance Discretionary) NBR H THUD Matheson
2008 MI $98,000 Crystal Lake Art Center in Frankfort for improvements to the former Frankfort Coast Guard station for use by the Crystal Lake Art Center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Hoekstra
2008 PA $245,000 Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley for expansion (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Dent
2008 NY $147,000 Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #4927 in Centereach for building renovation and buildout of a veteran center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Bishop
2008 CA $525,280 San Francisco Supportive and Transitional Housing Program, to develop 3,000 supporting housing units (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S THUD Feinstein
2008 MS $2,940,000 East Metropolitan Corridor (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR S THUD Cochran, Lott
2008 NY $737,799 Food Safety Research Consortium (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Special Research Grants) NBR H AG Hinchey, Walsh
2008 MO $372,375 Agricultural Literacy (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Federal Administration) NBR S AG Bond
2008 MI $312,550 Michigan State Police, Lansing, for technology to compare all of the DNA profiles from the participating states (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Stupak Levin (Carl), Stabenow
2008 PA $14,100 York County (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Platts
2008 GA $282,000 City of East Point for Law Enforcement technology upgrades (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Lewis (John) Chambliss
2008 NY $601,600 Phoenix House Capital Region of New York (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR COM Gillibrand Clinton
2008 MO $249,100 University of Missouri – St. Louis Family Intervention Program for parents who have abused drugs (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM Carnahan
2008 HI $357,200 YMCA Honolulu, to provide crime prevention and outreach services to the rural youth of Hawaii (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR S COM Inouye
2008 NH $752,000 New Hampshire Attorney General's Office, Concord, to fund a statewide multi-jurisdictional task force (Methamphetamine Enforcement and Clean Up – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR S COM Gregg
2008 $2,100,000 NSW RIB Payload Capacity Project (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR DEF Taylor Cochran, Lott
2008 $3,600,000 Internal Extended Range Fuel System (Aircraft Procurement – Army) NBR H DEF Pastor, Renzi
2008 $1,600,000 Advanced Vehicle and Propulsion Center (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR H DEF Lewis (CA), McKeon
2008 OH $4,000,000 Advanced Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) – Human Capital Development (HCD) (Operation and Maintenance – Air Force) NBR DEF Hobson Voinovich
2008 $1,000,000 AN-USQ-155 card upgrade for Navy Voice over Internet Protocol Telephony (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR H DEF Davis, Tom
2008 NV $1,800,000 Controllable shock absorber for advanced submarines (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Berkley Ensign, Reid
2008 $800,000 Next generation gas chromatographic mass spectrometer for WMD civil support teams (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR S DEF Bayh, Lugar
2008 FL $2,700,000 Submarine electronic chart updates (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR S DEF Nelson (FL)
2008 SC $196,800 York College National Energy Resource Center (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR ENERGY Spratt Graham
2008 NY $541,200 Hofstra University for condensed matter research (Department of Energy: Science) NBR H ENERGY McCarthy
2008 FL $12,329,520 Rose Bay Ecosystem Restoration Project (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY Feeney Nelson
2008 AR $934,800 White River minimum flow, (Previously in Senate Investigations Account) (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR H ENERGY Berry
2008 MD $118,080 Goose Creek (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Mikulski; Cardin
2008 Multi-State $9,229,000 Oahe Dam, Lake Oahe [ND, SD] (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Dorgan
2008 CA $1,631,000 New Melones Lake, Downstream Channel (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 IL $282,000 City of Chicago Small business assistance program for ex-offenders (Small Business Administration) NBR H FINSER Davis (IL)
2008 NH $295,320 Goffstown for Danis/Lynchville Water and Sewer Project (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR INT Shea Porter Gregg
2008 OH $295,320 The Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission for organic detection system improvements (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR INT Chabot Brown, Sherrod; Specter, Voinovich, Lugar
2008 FL $292,000 Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, for exhibits and programming (Institute of Museum and Library Services – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Young (FL), C.W.; Wexler, Robert; Nelson, Bill
2008 OH $292,000 Talbert House, Cincinnati, for a substance abuse treatment program (Center for Substance Abuse Treatment – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Schmidt, Jean
2008 DC $312,000 Washington Hospital Center, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Norton, Eleanor
2008 CA $438,000 San Mateo County, Redwood City, the San Mateo Medical Center Emergency Department (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Lantos, Tom
2008 VA $195,000 Corporation for Jefferson's Postal Forest, for expansion of exhibits and outreach (Institute of Museum and Library Services – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Goodlatte, Bob
2008 SC $131,000 Voorhees College, Denmark, for a demonstration program on reversing diabetes in minority communities (Centers for Disease Control – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Clyburn, James
2008 WI $248,000 Brown County Oral Health Partnership, Green Bay, to expand an oral health program (Centers for Disease Control – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Kohl
2008 NM $82,000 Albuquerque Indian Health Center, for renovations and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration) NBR S LABHHS Bingaman
2008 PA $45,000 LaSalle University, Philadelphia, for abstinence education and related services (Social Services – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Specter
2008 OK $7,700,000 Fuel system maintenance hangar, Vance AFB (Air Force) NBR MILCON Lucas Inhofe
2008 KS $980,000 159th Street bridge replacement, Andover (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR H THUD Tiahrt
2008 NV $98,000 Acquisition of Two Senior Transit Vehicles (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR H THUD Porter
2008 UT $147,000 Western Mining and Railroad Museum in Helper for construction and renovation of an addition to the museum to improve accessibility (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Matheson

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