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 $800,000 Advanced propulsion for gun launched projectiles and missiles (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR S DEF Snowe
2008 $2,400,000 Submarine Artificial Intelligence-Based Combat System kernal (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR S DEF Reed, Whitehouse
2008 IN $709,464 University of Saint Francis Science Center (Department of Energy: Science) NBR ENERGY Souder; Visclosky Lugar
2008 MA $984,000 Boston College Institute for Integrated Sciences (Department of Energy: Science) NBR ENERGY Markey; Olver Kennedy; Kerry
2008 CA $492,000 Pajaro River (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR H ENERGY Farr
2008 AR $246,000 Lower Mississippi River Resource Study (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR ENERGY Berry Cochran; Lincoln; Pryor
2008 LA $206,640 Bayou Lacombe (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Landrieu
2008 NC $601,000 Rollinson Channel (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 CO $5,294,000 John Martin Reservoir (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR H ENERGY
2008 AL $282,000 Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology facility (Small Business Administration) NBR H FINSER Cramer
2008 CA $1,156,670 The City of Pasadena for perchlorate remediation and drinking water system improvements (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR INT Schiff Feinstein, Boxer
2008 IN $196,880 City of Indianapolis Urban Tree Planting Program (Forest Service – State and Private Forestry) NBR INT Carson Bayh, Lugar
2008 FL $195,000 Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, for purchase of equipment (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Young (FL), C.W.
2008 CA $195,000 San Gabriel Library, for equipment, furnishings, and materials (Institute of Museum and Library Services – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Schiff, Adam
2008 MA $165,000 Lower Pioneer Valley Educational Collaborative, West Springfield, for educational equipment and program development (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Neal (MA), Richard Kennedy, Kerry
2008 TX $656,000 Houston Independent School District, Houston, for a teacher incentive program (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Lampson, Nick; Green, Al Cornyn
2008 VA $68,000 Bedford Ride, Bedford, for a program to assist seniors (Center for Mental Health Services – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Goode, Virgil
2008 MO $536,000 St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment, for a summer jobs program for youth (Employment and Training Administration – Department of Labor) NBR H LABHHS Clay, Wm.
2008 WI $268,000 Wisconsin Community Action Program, Madison, for job training assistance of low-income individuals (Employment and Training Administration – Department of Labor) NBR S LABHHS Kohl
2008 WI $414,000 Beloit Area Community Health Center, for construction, renovation and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration) NBR S LABHHS Kohl
2008 MO $185,000 Parents as Teachers National Center, St. Louis Gateway, for the Parents as Teachers Program (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Bond
2008 WA $10,940,000 Fleet region readiness center, Naval Station Everett (Navy) NBR MILCON Larsen Murray
2008 CA $980,000 Bald Hill Side Mitigation and Repair Project Federal Lands (Public Lands Highways) NBR H THUD Thompson
2008 ND $1,313,200 Grand Forks Airport, improvement (Airport Improvement Program) NBR THUD Pomeroy Conrad, Dorgan
2008 GA $735,000 Middle Georgia Regional Airport improvments (Airport Improvement Program) NBR H THUD Marshall
2008 NH $392,000 Rail safety upgrades, Coos County (Rail Line Relocation and Improvement Program) NBR H THUD Hodes
2008 CT $1,568,000 Depot Street Bridge Revitalization, Beacon Falls (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR THUD DeLauro Dodd
2008 GA $245,000 SOWEGA Council on Aging in Albany for construction of a senior center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Bishop
2008 MT $393,960 Chippewa Cree Tribe, Transportation and Rehabilitation of Maimstrom AFB Housing Units to transport and rehabilitation (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S THUD Tester
2008 MS $1,960,000 Urban Collector Road, Jackson and Harrison Counties (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR S THUD Cochran
2008 ND $1,712,925 Red River Valley Agricultural Research Center – Cereal Crops and Sunflower Research, Fargo (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses) NBR AG Herseth Sandlin, Pomeroy Conrad, Dorgan
2008 PA $74,475 Center for Dairy Excellence (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Federal Administration) NBR S AG Specter
2008 FL $352,500 Lake County (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Stearns, Keller
2008 MN $23,500 Willmar Methamphetamine Education Program (Methamphetamine Enforcement and Clean Up – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Peterson (Collin)
2008 CA $470,000 University of Redlands Education Technology Program (NASA) NBR H COM Lewis (Jerry)
2008 PA $235,000 Chester County Pennsylvania District Attorney's Office for incident response management technology (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Gerlach, Sestak Specter, Casey
2008 MA $94,000 Straight Ahead Ministries Ready4Work, Boston (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR H COM Capuano, McGovern
2008 IL $401,850 Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, for a juvenile delinquency prevention program (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR S COM Obama
2008 WA $357,200 City of Bellevue for equipment upgrades (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR S COM Murray, Cantwell
2008 $3,600,000 Special Operations Craft-Riverine (Procurement – Defense Wide) NBR DEF Taylor Lott
2008 NJ $1,000,000 Rapid Response Database Systems Initiative (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR DEF Pallone, Smith (NJ) Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 CA $4,000,000 Norton AFB infrastructure improvements (Operation and Maintenance – Defense Wide) NBR H DEF Lewis (CA), Baca
2008 $3,200,000 Defect-free commercially viable SA/C semiconductor using superlattice technology (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Hinchey, Maloney, McNulty
2008 $2,000,000 High power free electron laser development for naval applications (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Davis, Jo Ann Warner, Webb
2008 $800,000 Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station (CROWS) with acoustic target recognition & cue control (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Bean Durbin
2008 $800,000 Mission Critical Power System reliability surveys (Operation and Maintenance – Air Force) NBR S DEF Voinovich
2008 $2,400,000 Mobile objects for net-centric operations (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF Cantwell
2008 AR $1,180,800 Nanostructured solar cells (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR ENERGY Snyder Lincoln; Pryor
2008 IL $295,200 McHenry County, Illinois (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR H ENERGY Manzullo
2008 CA $984,000 Watsonville Area Water Recycling Project (Bureau of Reclamation: Water and Related Resources) NBR H ENERGY Farr

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