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 TX $984,000 Biofuels development at Texas A&M (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR H ENERGY Edwards
2008 MN $1,265,424 Stillwater (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY Bachman Coleman; Klobuchar
2008 NM $246,000 Eastern New Mexico water reuse (Bureau of Reclamation: Water and Related Resources) NBR S ENERGY Domenici; Bingaman
2008 MN $3,423,000 Reservoirs at Headwaters of Mississippi River (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Coleman
2008 KS $1,546,000 Marion Lake (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 IL $750,000 Education Initiative, Benedictine University, Lisle (Small Business Administration) NBR S FINSER Obama
2008 OR $861,350 Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument (Bureau of Land Management – Land Acquisition) NBR INT Pelosi Wyden, Gordon Smith
2008 AL $1,067,089 The City of Clanton for the Water Treatment Plant Upgrade Project (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR INT Bachus Shelby
2008 NM $195,000 Sandoval County, Bernalillo, for a telemedicine initiative, including purchase of equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Wilson (NM), Heather, Udall, Tom Bingaman, Domenici
2008 MD $316,000 Towson University, for an educational partnership with the Baltimore City Public School System and the Cherry Hill community (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Ruppersberger, C.A. Mikulski, Cardin
2008 CT $121,000 Greater New Britain Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Inc., for the Pathways/Senderos Center for education and outreach (Social Services – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Murphy (CT), Christopher
2008 GA $292,000 Chatham County Safety Net Collaborative, Savannah, for purchase of equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR H LABHHS Kingston, Jack
2008 NJ $487,000 Somerset Medical Center, for electronic health records upgrades (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Frelinghuysen, Rodney Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 PA $302,000 College Misericordia, Dallas, for the NEPA Assistive Technology Research Institute (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Carney, Christopher; Specter, Casey
2008 PA $87,000 Albright College, Reading, for laboratory equipment acquisition (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Specter
2008 MA $248,000 Emmanuel College, Boston, for the procurement of educational equipment and program development (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS Kennedy, Kerry
2008 VA $117,000 Eastern Shore Rural Health System Onley Comunity Health Center, Nassawadox (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Webb, Warner
2008 AZ $6,500,000 Repair airfield pavements, phase I, Luke AFB (Air Force) NBR C MILCON Franks, Pastor Kyl
2008 SC $147,000 City of Florence, Community Activity Center to provide for a new activity center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR THUD Spratt Graham
2008 CA $11,760,000 Third Street Light Rail Transit Project-Central, San Francisco (New Starts/Fixed Guideway) NBR THUD Pelosi Feinstein
2008 NY $171,500 Downtown parking improvements (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR H THUD Lowey
2008 NV $245,000 City of Sparks, Larry D. Johnson Community Center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR THUD Heller Reid
2008 VA $490,000 Lee Highway Corridor Improvement Project (Interstate Maintenance Discretionary) NBR H THUD Davis
2008 IL $245,000 Miller Road widening, McHenry County (Transportation & Community & System Preservation) NBR H THUD Bean
2008 RI $1,341,522 Rhode Island Public Transit Authority intelligent Transportation System (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR S THUD Reed
2008 WV $4,586,400 West Virginia Statewide Airport (Airport Improvement Program) NBR S THUD Byrd
2008 Multi-State $442,878 National Farm Animal Identification and Records (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) NBR AG Walsh Leahy
2008 Multi-State $429,969 Conservation Planning [MA, WI] (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Conservation Technical Assistance Projects) NBR AG Frank Kennedy (MA), Kerry, Kohl
2008 WV $215,481 Soil Phosphorus Studies (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Conservation Technical Assistance Projects) NBR S AG Byrd
2008 NJ $357,200 Essex County for a juvenile re-entry program (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR COM Sires, Pascrell Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 NJ $94,000 The Asbury Park Enrichment and Student Success Center, Lincraft (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR H COM Pallone
2008 RI $267,900 Ocean Tides School, Narragansett, to enhance its science and computer labs to encourage the study of science and technology (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR COM Langevin Reed, Whitehouse
2008 NJ $235,000 Summit Police Department (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM Ferguson
2008 IA $339,500 Iowa Office of Drug Control, Des Moines, for coordinated regional meth task forces (Methamphetamine Enforcement and Clean Up – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Braley Harkin
2008 DC $714,400 Planning and design for new exhibits and Hoover Building rent, National Aquarium NBR S COM Mikulski
2008 NE $94,000 Heartland Family Services, Papillion, for a collaborative clinically managed treatment service for substance abuse patients (Methamphetamine Enforcement and Clean Up – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR S COM Hagel
2008 $2,500,000 Sonobuoys – all types (Other Procurement – Navy) NBR DEF Souder, Mica, Walberg Bayh, Levin, Nelson (FL) Stabenow
2008 $1,600,000 Mobile Common Data Link Gateway (Other Procurement – Air Force) NBR H DEF Murtha
2008 CA $3,000,000 Facility security using tactical surveys (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR H DEF Lewis (CA)
2008 $800,000 Biological And Chemical Warfare Online Repository of Technical Holdings System (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR DEF Hastings (WA) Murray
2008 $1,000,000 Post pathogen interaction study (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF Cramer
2008 $800,000 Integrated Power System Converter (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Altmire, Doyle, Murphy, Tim Casey, Specter
2008 $1,600,000 Distributed Maritime Surveillance System (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR S DEF Hutchison
2008 AK $3,200,000 HAARP (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR S DEF Stevens
2008 IL $492,000 Nanotechnology research internships (Department of Energy: Science) NBR H ENERGY Schakowsky
2008 CA $492,000 Hi-desert wastewater collection & reuse (Bureau of Reclamation: Water and Related Resources) NBR H ENERGY Lewis, J.
2008 TX $9,341,000 Whitney Lake (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR H ENERGY Edwards
2008 NY $1,476,000 Steel Creek (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY Arcuri Schumer; Clinton
2008 NM $492,000 Chimayo Water Plan (Bureau of Reclamation: Water and Related Resources) NBR S ENERGY Domenici; Bingaman
2008 MN $659,000 Lac Qui Parle Lakes, Minnesota River (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY

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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