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 NY $139,020 Wood Biomass as an Alternative Farm Product (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Extension Activities) NBR AG Walsh Clinton, Schumer
2008 TX $329,676 Attoyac Bayou site 23-A (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations) NBR H AG Gohmert
2008 MS $1,182,663 MS Conservation Initiative (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Conservation Technical Assistance Projects) NBR S AG Cochran
2008 NY $535,800 City of Buffalo for a camera system (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Slaughter Schumer, Clinton
2008 NJ $446,500 Paterson Police Department security upgrades (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Pascrell Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 WA $223,250 Whatcom County for an information sharing and exchange system (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Larsen Murray, Cantwell
2008 VA $126,900 Chesterfield County (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Forbes
2008 FL $305,500 Sexual Trauma Recovery Center, Orlando (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR COM Brown (Corrine) Martinez
2008 MS $7,332,000 Expansion of the Research Technology and Economic Development to generate high technology jobs and enhance the overall economic development of the region MS State Univ. (National Institute of Standards and Technology) NBR S COM Cochran
2008 AL $235,000 City of Andalusia for anti-methamphetamine programs (Methamphetamine Enforcement and Clean Up – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR S COM Shelby
2008 SC $1,600,000 Combat Casualty Care Equipment Upgrade Program (Operation and Maintenance – Marine Corps) NBR DEF Spratt Graham
2008 NY $1,600,000 Parsons Institute for Information Mapping for Defense Health Program's TRICARE System and the AHLTA (Defense Health Program) NBR DEF Nadler Clinton, Schumer
2008 $3,200,000 Airborne commercial radar mapping (Intelligence) NBR H DEF Lewis (CA)
2008 $800,000 Experimental technologies for urban warfare and disaster response (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Hayes, McIntyre, Price (NC) Burr
2008 $400,000 Rapid Missile All Source Analysis (Intelligence) NBR DEF Cramer, Everett Bond
2008 $1,600,000 MK-48 Torpedo Post-Launch Communication System (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Arcuri Clinton, Schumer
2008 $1,440,000 Self-sensing Array Container Pre-screening Sensor System (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR S DEF Reid
2008 $3,200,000 Joint Biological Stand-off Detection System (JBSDS) (Procurement – Defense Wide) NBR S DEF Shelby
2008 PA $236,160 Borough of Hatfield (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR H ENERGY Schwartz
2008 CA $123,000 Upper Mojave River Well Field (Bureau of Reclamation: Water and Related Resources) NBR H ENERGY Lewis, Jerry
2008 TX $492,000 Raymondville Drain (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR ENERGY Edwards; Hinojosa; Ortiz Hutchison, Cornyn
2008 WA $2,952,000 Puget Sound and adjacent waters restoration (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY Baird; Dicks; Inslee; Larsen; McDermott; Reichert; Smith, A. Murray; Cantwell
2008 HI $492,000 Southeast Oahu regional sediment management (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Inouye
2008 MO $724,000 New Madrid Harbor (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Bond
2008 KS $2,376,000 Milford Lake (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 NY $275,000 Northern Manhattan Coalition for Economic Development for business outreach center, New York (Small Business Administration) NBR S FINSER Schumer, Clinton
2008 ND $3,937,600 United Tribes Tech College, Operations (Bureau of Indian Affairs – Education) NBR INT Pomeroy Dorgan, Conrad
2008 Multi-State $516,810 Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research (EPA – Science and Technology) NBR INT Banning, Conyers, Etheridge, John Lewis, David Price, Towns, Herseth Sandlin, Inslee Bayh, Lugar, Bond, Inouye, Sherrod Brown, Chambliss, Klobuchar, McConnell, Kohl, Carl Levin, Stabenow
2008 VA $292,000 Fairfax County Public Schools, for Franklin Sherman Elementary School and Chesterbrook Elementary School (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Wolf, Frank
2008 OH $243,000 Kent State University/Trunbull County, Warren, for regional training through the Northeast Ohio Advanced Manufacturing Institute (Employment and Training Administration – Department of Labor) NBR H LABHHS Ryan (OH), Tim
2008 PA $97,000 James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, for equipment, salaries and supplies (Institute of Museum and Library Services – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Murphy, Patrick
2008 IL $341,000 College of Lake County, Grayslake, for curriculum development (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Kirk, Mark
2008 NJ $146,000 Newton Memorial Hospital, for purchase of equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Garrett (NJ), Scott Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 IN $614,000 Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis, for a naturally occurring retirement community (Administration on Aging – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Carson, Julia Bayh, Lugar
2008 PA $87,000 Magee Rehabilitation Hospital, for equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Specter
2008 MA $331,000 Emerson College, Boston, for educational equipment and program development (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Kennedy, Kerry
2008 TX $195,000 Dallas, for the Women's Museum to expand outreach and programming efforts (Institute of Museum and Library Services – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Hutchison
2008 TX $130,000 Wilford Hall Medical Center, ambulatory care center, Lackland AFB (Air Force) NBR C MILCON Gonzalez
2008 FL $196,000 Suntran Bus acquisition, Marion County (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR H THUD Stearns
2008 CA $1,470,000 San Francisco Control Tower Replacement (Facilities and Equipment) NBR H THUD Pelosi, Lantos, Tauscher
2008 OK $98,000 Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid for renovation and construction (Economic Development Initiative) NBR THUD Lucas Inhofe
2008 CA $980,000 Forest Highway 171 Widening, Butte County Federal Lands (Public Lands Highways) NBR H THUD Herger
2008 KY $245,000 Bus Replacement Program, TANK, Ft. Wright (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR H THUD Davis (KY)
2008 MS $490,000 Byram-Clinton Norrell Corridor Project (Interstate Maintenance Discretionary) NBR THUD Bennie Thompson Cochran
2008 TX $411,600 East Loop (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR S THUD Hutchison
2008 FL $686,000 Downtown Orlando East-West Circulator System (Alternatives Analysis) NBR S THUD Martinez, Nelson
2008 NY $354,501 Non-Point Pollution in Onondaga and Oneida Late Watersheds (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Conservation Technical Assistance Projects) NBR H AG Walsh
2008 AZ $628,569 Quantity basin water budget components in the Southwest, Tucson (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses) NBR H AG Giffords, Pastor
2008 UT $251,229 Water quality (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Conservation Technical Assistance Projects) NBR S AG Bennett
2008 NY $625,100 Monroe County Crime Lab Computer and Document Forensic and Digital Evidence Module (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR COM Slaughter Schumer, Clinton

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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