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 $10,000,000 Young parents demonstration program NBR LABHHS
2008 IN $4,996,000 Security fence, Muscatatuk (Army National Guard) NBR MILCON Hill, Visclosky Lugar
2008 OH $656,600 White Pond Drive expansion (Transportation & Community & System Preservation) NBR THUD Sutton Brown
2008 PA $588,000 Vehicle Replacement–DuFAST (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR H THUD Peterson (PA)
2008 NY $196,000 Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty in New York for planning, design, construction, renovation and buildout of affordable housing (Economic Development Initiative) NBR THUD Maloney Schumer, Clinton
2008 NY $343,980 Walden Trail Connection, Town of Montgomery (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR H THUD Hinchey
2008 CO $1,969,800 Denver International Airport pavement rehabilitation (Airport Improvement Program) NBR THUD DeGette Salazar, Ken
2008 AR $343,000 Arkansas State University-Newport in Newport for construction of the Regional Transportation Technology Center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Berry
2008 SD $196,000 Eagle Butte Cheyenne River Youth Project Teen Center Expansion (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S THUD Johnson
2008 KY $5,880,000 21st Century Parks Project in Louisville (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR S THUD McConnell
2008 FL $1,395,165 Sugarcane Variety Research, Canal Point (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses) NBR AG Hastings (FL) Martinez, Nelson (FL)
2008 TX $148,950 Policy analyses for a national secure and sustainable food, fiber, forestry, and energy program (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Special Research Grants) NBR S AG Hutchison
2008 IN $282,000 City of Fort Wayne (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR COM Souder Lugar, Bayh
2008 CA $1,551,000 City and County of San Francisco Forensic Services Crime Lab (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM Pelosi
2008 IA $79,900 Waukon, High School Youth Intervention Project (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR H COM Latham
2008 NJ $940,000 Sussex County (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Frelinghuysen
2008 IN $94,000 Central Indiana Teen Challenge (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR COM Buyer Lugar, Bayh
2008 ME $376,000 Groundline Exchange Program to provide financial assistance to lobstermen by enabling them to purchase "whale-safe" rope in exchange for their existing groundline, Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation (NOAA) NBR S COM Collins, Snowe
2008 NV $267,900 University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) Immigrant Resource Project for a legal education program (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR S COM Reid
2008 $2,000,000 Airborne Infrared Surveillance (AIRS) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR DEF Sullivan, Boren Inhofe
2008 WI $4,500,000 Spring-suspended airless tires for convoy protection (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Obey
2008 CA $4,000,000 JGES for improved combat situational awareness (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Lewis (CA)
2008 $2,400,000 Exploding foil initiators with nanomaterial-based circuits (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Herseth Sandlin Johnson
2008 $1,600,000 Mobile optical wireless networking for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR DEF Cummings Mikulski
2008 WI $1,600,000 High Brightness Diode-pumped Fiber Laser (HIBRID-FL) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Baldwin
2008 AL $1,200,000 Anniston Army Depot industrial efficiencies (Operation and Maintenance – Army) NBR S DEF Shelby, Sessions
2008 $2,400,000 F-15 AESA Radar upgrade (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR S DEF Feinstein, Lott
2008 CT $1,476,000 Stamford Waste- to- Energy Project (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR ENERGY Shays Lieberman
2008 NJ $2,808,336 Great Egg Harbor Inlet to Peck Beach (Ocean City) (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY LoBiondo Lautenberg; Menendez
2008 MO $3,218,664 Bois Brule Drainage and Levee District (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY Emerson Bond
2008 TX $1,638,360 Johnson Creek, Upper Trinity Basin, Arlington (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY Barton; Edwards Hutchison
2008 MS $49,200 Yazoo Basin – Yazoo Backwater Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Lands (Corps of Engineers: Mississippi River and Tributaries) NBR S ENERGY Cochran
2008 NJ $185,000 Manasquan River (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Lautenberg; Menendez
2008 IN $874,000 Brookville Lake (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 IL $282,000 Illinois Institute of Technology, Innovating Manufacturing Education (Small Business Administration) NBR H FINSER Bean
2008 TX $4,922,000 EI Paso / Brownsville set aside from Mexico Border funds (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR C INT Reyes Cornyn, Hutchison
2008 AR $492,200 The City of Rogers, Northwest Arkansas Conservation Authority for Water and Wastewater Infrastructure and Watershed Management (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR H INT Boozman
2008 OR $82,000 Providence Multiple Sclerosis Center, Portland, to develop a registry for multiple sclerosis (Centers for Disease Control – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Wu, David; Walden, Greg Wyden, Smith
2008 CA $146,000 Community Devel. Commission of the County of LA, Monterey Park, for the S. Whitter Community Ed and Computer Center (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Sanchez, Linda
2008 PA $341,000 Excela Health, Mount Pleasant, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Murtha, John
2008 NY $438,000 Monroe Community College, Rochester, for a special needs prepardness training program (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Kuhl (NY), John Clinton, Schumer
2008 NY $97,000 Hudson Headwaters Health Network, Inc., Glens Falls, for health information systems (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Gillibrand, Kirsten Clinton, Schumer
2008 FL $121,000 Tampa Metropolitan YMCA, for after-school programs (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Castor, Kathy
2008 CT $234,000 Save the Children, Westport, to implement supplemental literacy programs for children in grades K-8 in rural Nevada schools (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Reid
2008 RI $204,000 Samaritans of Rhode Island, Providence, to enhance the Suicide Crisis Hotline (Center for Mental Health Services – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Reed
2008 PA $87,000 Ephrata Community Hospital, for equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Specter
2008 SD $7,900,000 Base civil engineer maintenance complex, Joe Foss Field (Air National Guard) NBR MILCON Herseth Sandlin Johnson, Thune
2008 OH $490,000 Excursion Vessel Project (Ferry Boats and Terminal Facilities) NBR H THUD Sutton
2008 PA $196,000 The Hunting & Fishing Museum of PA in Tionesta for development and to create interactive, educational, and historical exhibits for the main museum building (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Peterson (PA)
2008 FL $980,000 Indian Street Bridge, Martin County (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR H THUD Mahoney

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