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 CA $3,200,000 Unattended SIGINT Node (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR H DEF Lewis (CA)
2008 $2,700,000 Partnership for Defense Innovation Wi-Fi Test Laboratory (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR H DEF Hayes
2008 $1,600,000 Remote Explosive Analysis & Detection System (READS) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Cramer
2008 $4,000,000 Vectored Thrust Propeller (VTDP) compound helicopter advanced technology demonstration (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Andrews, Murphy, Patrick, Sestak Casey, Specter
2008 $1,600,000 Advanced thermal and oil management controls (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF Levin
2008 $3,200,000 Multi-colored infrared sensors (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR S DEF Gregg, Sununu
2008 OH $393,600 Williamsburg Water Treatment Plant (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR H ENERGY Schmidt
2008 CA $295,200 Santa Ana River & Tributaries ecosystem restoration (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR H ENERGY Lewis, Jerry
2008 TX $1,968,000 Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute, Texas A&M (Department of Energy: Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation) NBR H ENERGY Edwards
2008 Multi-State $14,583,000 Columbia River at the Mouth [OR, WA] (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR ENERGY Baird Murray; Smith; Wyden
2008 OR $147,600 Burnt, Malheur, Owyhee, and Power Basin Water Opt. Feas. (Bureau of Reclamation: Water and Related Resources) NBR S ENERGY Wyden; Smith
2008 Multi-State $224,000 Bigstone Lake Whetstone River [MN, SD] (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 KS $2,083,000 Perry Lake (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 LA $250,000 Grambling State University Expanding Minority Entrepreneurship Regionally Across the Louisiana Delta [EMERALD] Program (Lincoln Parish) (Small Business Administration) NBR S FINSER Landrieu
2008 NY $147,660 DeSeversky Center Building (National Park Service – Save America's Treasures) NBR H INT Peter King
2008 WA $492,200 The City of Longview for a water treatment facility (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR INT Baird Cantwell
2008 OH $234,000 NewLife Academy of Information Technology, East Liverpool, for training for information technology careers (Employment and Training Administration – Department of Labor) NBR H LABHHS Wilson (OH), Charles
2008 IL $234,000 Metropolitan Library System, Chicago, for educational programming and materials (Institute of Museum and Library Services – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Rush, Bobby
2008 CT $121,000 Prime Time House, Inc., Tarrington, for mental health services (Center for Mental Health Services – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Murphy (CT), Christopher
2008 GA $277,000 Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, for the BA degree in Cyber Security and Investigation Technology (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Kingston, Jack; Chambliss, Isakson
2008 NJ $487,000 United Jewish Communities of MetroWest, for the Lifelong Involvement for Vital Elders Initiative (Administration on Aging – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Frelinghuysen, Rodney Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 IN $238,000 Children's Museum of Indianapolis, for exhibits and equipment (Institute of Museum and Library Services – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Carson, Julia Bayh, Lugar
2008 PA $87,000 Potter County Human Services, Roulette, for the rural and underserved cancer outreach project (Centers for Disease Control – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Specter
2008 PA $87,000 Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, Darby, for equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Specter
2008 IA $97,000 Creative Visions in Des Moines, for outreach to at-risk youth (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Harkin
2008 AZ $1,964,000 Fire station (Silver Bell Army Heliport), Marana (Army National Guard) NBR C MILCON Giffords
2008 CA $392,000 Union City Intermodal Station, Union City (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR H THUD Stark
2008 CA $1,470,000 South Access to Golden Gate Bridge, Doyle Drive Federal Lands (Public Lands Highways) NBR H THUD Pelosi
2008 NY $171,500 Main Street Streetscape, Haverstraw (Transportation & Community & System Preservation) NBR H THUD Lowey
2008 NV $735,000 Meadowood Interchange Complex, Reno (Transportation & Community & System Preservation) NBR THUD Heller Reid
2008 TN $73,500 Of One Accord, Inc., Ministry in Rogersville for renovation and expansion of Food Pantry in Hawkins and Hancock Counties (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Davis (David)
2008 IL $7,227,500 METRA, Union Pacific Northwest Line, Northeastern (New Starts/Fixed Guideway) NBR THUD Bean, Emanuel, Kirk Durbin, Obama
2008 PA $656,600 SEPTA Interoperability Communications Initiative (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR S THUD Casey
2008 CT $1,313,200 Southeastern Connecticut Bus Rapid Transit System (Alternatives Analysis) NBR S THUD Dodd, Lieberman
2008 NY $402,165 Human Nutrition (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Special Research Grants) NBR AG Walsh Clinton, Schumer
2008 PA $44,685 Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (Rodale Inst.), Wyndmoor (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses) NBR H AG Gerlach
2008 AK $132,069 U.S. Cold Regions Botanical Research Network (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Conservation Technical Assistance Projects) NBR S AG Stevens
2008 MO $1,269,000 Central Missouri Regional Justice Information System (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Skelton, Hulshof
2008 NJ $564,000 180 Turning Lives Around Child and Teen Violence Reduction and Treatment Program, Hazlet (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR COM Pallone, Smith (Christopher) Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 CA $916,500 San Mateo County Sheriff's Office Jail Management System (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Lantos, Eshoo
2008 NJ $235,000 Cranford Police Department (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Ferguson
2008 IA $94,000 Scott County for equipment and software for the consolidated dispatch center (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Braley Grassley
2008 MS $7,332,000 Biotech Res. Park const. close to an academic med. ctr. offering opportunities for scientific and comm. synergies in Jackson, Univ. of Miss. (National Institute of Standards and Technology) NBR S COM Cochran
2008 IL $200,000 Illinois Sheriffs Association, Springfield, for law enforcement and clean-up of meth production and abuse (Methamphetamine Enforcement and Clean Up – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR S COM Durbin
2008 $3,000,000 Vanadium safety readiness (Defense Health Program) NBR DEF Space, English, Murphy (CT), Paul Casey, Dodd, Lincoln, Pryor, Specter
2008 CO $2,000,000 Geosciences/atmospheric research (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Musgrave Allard, Salazar
2008 CA $3,200,000 Magneto Inductive Remote Activation Munition Systems MI-RAMS (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Lewis (CA)
2008 $3,200,000 Retrograde tracking, monitoring and security of U.S. military material (Operation and Maintenance – Army) NBR DEF Hayes Feinstein
2008 $2,400,000 Enhanced foreign system signature prediction/MSIC (Intelligence) NBR H DEF Cramer
2008 $4,000,000 Distributed Mission Interoperability Toolkit (DMIT) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR H DEF Andrews, LoBiondo, Sestak

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