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 MI $245,000 Yates Dial-A-Ride (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR H THUD Hoekstra
2008 PA $490,000 Bethlehem Transit Transfer Center (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR H THUD Dent
2008 GA $735,000 State Road 982/Talbotton Road improvements, Columbus (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR H THUD Bishop
2008 SD $686,000 Ellsworth Air Force Base Road improvement (Transportation & Community & System Preservation) NBR S THUD Thune
2008 MT $4,596,200 Shiloh Road Corridor, Billings (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR S THUD Baucus, Tester
2008 NY $511,395 Watershed Agricultural Council (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Conservation Technical Assistance Projects) NBR H AG Hinchey
2008 WI $297,900 Pesticide Reduction on Vegetables (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Extension Activities) NBR S AG Kohl
2008 MI $223,250 Michigan public safety communications, Lansing, for the International Border Interoperability Communications enhancement project (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Stupak Levin (Carl), Stabenow
2008 MS $61,100 Smith County Sheriff's Department (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Pickering
2008 GA $164,500 East Point law enforcement technology upgrade (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Lewis (John) Chambliss
2008 Multi-State $446,500 John Smith Water Trail installation of interactive buoys marking the John Smith National Water Trail on the Chesapeake Bay The Conservation Fund (NOAA) NBR COM Gilchrest, Ruppersberger Warner, Mikulski, Cardin, Webb,
2008 MO $141,000 St. Louis County Police Crime Laboratory (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM Carnahan
2008 SD $223,250 St. Joseph's Indian School, Chamberlain, to expand programs and services for students (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR S COM Johnson (Tim) SD, Thune
2008 CO $70,500 National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, to research the long-term consequences of the meth and chemical exposures (Methamphetamine Enforcement and Clean Up – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR S COM Allard
2008 $880,000 Ruggedized Mobile Gamma Radiation Detection System (GUARDS) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR DEF Taylor Cochran, Lott
2008 $2,400,000 Bunker defeat munition (Procurement of Ammunition – Army) NBR H DEF Pastor
2008 $4,000,000 Warrior Block O all-weather, hi-fidelity sensor upgrades (Other Procurement – Army) NBR H DEF Lewis (CA), McKeon
2008 $3,200,000 Advanced Microcircuit Emulation (AME) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR H DEF Hobson
2008 $2,400,000 Radio frequency identification (RFID) SMART container: passive tags dynamically updating active tag (Operation and Maintenance – Navy) NBR H DEF Davis, Tom
2008 $1,440,000 Development of truck-deployed explosive containment vessel (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Berkley Reid
2008 $800,000 Large format Li-ion battery (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF Kohl, Specter
2008 $2,800,000 Unmanned aircraft systems optimization technologies (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR S DEF Byrd
2008 SC $1,180,800 South Carolina Lambda Rail Computer Network Portal (Department of Energy: Science) NBR H ENERGY Spratt
2008 CA $842,304 North Valley Regional water infrastructure (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR H ENERGY McCarthy
2008 PA $492,000 Tacony Creek, Philadelphia (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR H ENERGY Fattah; Schwartz
2008 AR $2,656,800 Bayou Meto Basin (Corps of Engineers: Mississippi River and Tributaries) NBR ENERGY Berry Lincoln; Pryor
2008 LA $117,096 Waterway from Intracoastal Waterway to Bayou Dulac (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Landrieu
2008 ND $10,244,000 Garrison Dam, Lake Sakakawea (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Dorgan
2008 CA $1,324,000 Sacramento River and Tributaries (Debris Control) (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 AL $282,000 Seedco Financial Services Alabama Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprises (M/WBE) Investment Initiative for technical assistance and training (Small Business Administration) NBR H FINSER Davis (AL)
2008 CT $492,200 The City of Stamford for Stormwater and Wastewater Infrastructure (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR INT Shays Dodd, Lieberman
2008 Multi-State $2,197,180 Chesapeake Bay Program (EPA – Environmental Programs and Management) NBR INT Castle, Ann Davis, Tom Davis, Gilchrest, Holden, Hoyer, James Moran, Sarbanes, Robert Scott, Van Hollen, Wynn Mikulski, Cardin
2008 FL $536,000 University of South Florida, for the Tampa Cancer Clinical Trials Project (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Young (FL), C.W.; Bilirakis, Gus
2008 CA $121,000 North West Pasadena Development Corp., for job training for low-income individuals (Employment and Training Administration – Department of Labor) NBR H LABHHS Schiff, Adam
2008 TX $146,000 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, for the Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Neugebauer, Randy
2008 CA $341,000 City College of San Francisco, for a health care workforce training initiative through the Welcome Back Center (Employment and Training Administration – Department of Labor) NBR H LABHHS Lantos, Tom
2008 VA $419,000 University of Virginia Center for Politics, Charlottesville, for the Youth Leadership Initiative (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Goode, Virgil; Forbes Webb, Warner
2008 DC $131,000 College Summit, Inc., for an initiative to increase college enrollment of low-income youth in South Carolina (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Clyburn, James
2008 CA $229,000 San Bernardino Boys and Girls Club, to expand programs that are available in education, health, and the arts (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Boxer
2008 MA $204,000 Barnstable, for the development of programs and procurement of educational equipment at a youth and community center (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Kennedy, Kerry
2008 IA $390,000 PE4life, Kansas City, for expansion and assessment of PE4life programs across Iowa (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Harkin
2008 NJ $9,800,000 ASOS beddown, 177th Fighter Wing, Egg Harbor Township, Atlantic City (Air National Guard) NBR C MILCON LoBiondo, Rothman Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 KS $2,352,000 National Institute for Aviation Research (Research [FAA]) NBR THUD Tiahrt Brownback
2008 ND $656,600 I-29/52nd Avenue S Interchange reconstruction, Fargo (Interstate Maintenance Discretionary) NBR THUD Pomeroy Conrad, Dorgan
2008 UT $490,000 Halchita Bridge, San Juan County Federal lands (Public Lands Highways) NBR H THUD Matheson
2008 MI $245,000 Harbor Transit (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR H THUD Hoekstra
2008 PA $245,000 ArtsQuest of Bethleham for revitilization of a brownfield site and development of the SteelStax Performing Arts Center on the site (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Dent
2008 UT $882,000 Ogden Hinckley Airport taxiway project, Ogden (Airport Improvement Program) NBR H THUD Bishop
2008 VT $196,000 Winooksi, Champlain Area Agency on Aging for renovation Vermont senior centers (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S THUD Sanders
2008 MT $3,939,600 Kalispell Bypass (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR S THUD Tester, Baucus

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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