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 $294,000 Fort Worth Transportation Authority (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR H THUD Barton
2008 VT $196,000 Vans for Vermont Senior Centers (Buses & Bus Facilities) NBR S THUD Sanders
2008 NE $656,600 Airport Authority of the County of Scotts Bluff (Airport Improvement Program) NBR S THUD Nelson
2008 CA $211,509 Olive Fruit Fly, Montpelier, France (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses) NBR H AG Thompson (CA)
2008 NE $372,375 Drought Mitigation (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education Activities – Special Research Grants) NBR AG Fortenberry Hagel, Nelson (NE)
2008 NJ $251,229 Conservation Technical Assistance (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Conservation Technical Assistance Projects) NBR S AG Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 ID $470,000 Idaho State Police, Pocatello, to support criminal information sharing (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR COM Simpson (Mike) Craig
2008 TX $188,000 Adjudicated Youth Program at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR H COM Ortiz
2008 IL $846,000 Logan County Sheriff's Department (Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR H COM LaHood
2008 PA $329,000 Mentoring Incarcerated Parents (MIP), Philadelphia (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM Fattah, Brady (Robert)
2008 PA $446,500 Greater Philadelphia Boyz to Men Fatherhood Initiative (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM Brady (Robert)
2008 WY $94,000 Radar technology study to determine the applicability of advanced radar technologies to cover the radar hole in northeastern Wyoming with low level radar coverage Adv. Radar Tech. (NOAA) NBR S COM Cantwell, Enzi
2008 CO $89,300 Eagle County Sheriff's Office for anti-meth operations (Methamphetamine Enforcement and Clean Up – Community Oriented Policing Service) NBR S COM Salazar (Ken)
2008 $1,600,000 Inductive thermography systems inspections (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR DEF Smith (WA) Cantwell, Murray
2008 $1,600,000 First Link (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR H DEF Murtha
2008 MI $1,000,000 Vehicle Armor Structure Development & Testing for Future Combat Systems & Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Levin Levin, Stabenow
2008 $1,600,000 Modular Advanced Helmet Vision System (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF Hastert Durbin
2008 $1,200,000 Laboratory for High Performance Computational Systems/MSC (Intelligence) NBR H DEF Cramer
2008 $1,360,000 CZT-based liquid explosives detections systems (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR DEF Altmire Casey
2008 $1,600,000 Joint Biological Agent Identification and Diagnostic System (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR S DEF Bennett
2008 $3,200,000 Deep Water Acoustic Detection System (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR S DEF Lautenberg, Menendez
2008 CO $220,416 Arkansas River Habitat Restoration Project (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR ENERGY Salazar Allard; Salazar
2008 OH $246,000 City of Stowe (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR H ENERGY LaTourette
2008 CA $984,000 Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle demonstration (Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) NBR H ENERGY Dreier; Lewis, Jerry
2008 PA $2,460,000 Upper Ohio Navigation Study (Corps of Engineers: General Investigation) NBR ENERGY Altmire; Doyle Specter; Casey
2008 MN $93,480 Harriet Island Lower Harbor dredging (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Coleman; Klobuchar
2008 MN $123,000 Red Lake Reservoir (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY
2008 IL $24,660,000 Mississippi River between Missouri River and Minneapolis (MVS Portion) (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR S ENERGY Grassley
2008 MO $500,000 Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan St. Louis to open and equip a business technology research center (Small Business Administration) NBR S FINSER Bond
2008 MA $1,378,160 The City of West Springfield, Pioneer Valley Planning Commission for the Connecticut River Combined Sewer Overflow Clean-up (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR INT Olver, Neal Edward Kennedy, Kerry
2008 AL $492,200 The City of Glencoe for Storm Drainage and Sewer Repairs (EPA – State and Tribal Assistance Grants) NBR H INT Aderholt
2008 FL $438,000 School Board of Broward County, Fort Lauderdale, for teacher support and development (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Wexler, Robert
2008 CA $121,000 Bienestar Human Services, Inc., Los Angeles, to expand a mobile HIV rapid testing program in East Los Angeles (Centers for Disease Control – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Roybal Allard, Lucille Boxer
2008 VA $146,000 Northern Va. Urban League, Alexandria for serv. and equip. to promote healthy pregnancy outcomes (HRSA – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS Moran (VA), James Warner, Webb
2008 IA $97,000 Western Iowa Tech Community College, Sioux City, for equipment (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS King (IA), Steve Harkin, Grassley
2008 NC $97,000 NC Tech Assc. Education Foundation, Raleigh, for school technology demonstration projects, including subgrants (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS Foxx, Virginia Dole, Burr
2008 PA $48,000 Northern Tier Industry & Education Consortium, Dimock for the activities of its advisory and assessment committees (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR H LABHHS Carney, Christopher
2008 VT $73,000 Lamoille Community Health Services, for rural outreach activities (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Sanders
2008 WI $82,000 Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture, Trans., and Consumer Protection, Madison, to provide mental health service for farmers (Center for Mental Health Services – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Kohl
2008 UT $82,000 Garfield Memorial Hospital, Panguitch, for the emergency room and adjacent clinic (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS Hatch
2008 MO $7,000,000 Child development center, Fort Leonard Wood (Army) NBR MILCON Emerson Bond
2008 OH $294,000 Caroll County Community Center in Carrollton for planning, design and construction of a community center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H THUD Space
2008 NJ $196,000 Goodwill Rescue Mission, Newark, for the renovation of transitional living facilities (Economic Development Initiative) NBR THUD Payne Lautenberg
2008 CA $490,000 Blossom Hill/Monterey Highway Crossing, San Jose (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR THUD Lofgren Feinstein
2008 NC $490,000 City of Monroe for renovation of the Old Armory Building site into a community center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR THUD Hayes Burr
2008 AL $196,000 Tuscaloosa Regional Airport masterplan (Airport Improvement Program) NBR H THUD Davis
2008 TX $490,000 US 287 Ennis Bypass from BU 287 to south of SH 34 (Interstate Maintenance Discretionary) NBR H THUD Barton
2008 UT $588,000 500 South, I-15 to Redwood Road (Surface Transportation Priorities) NBR S THUD Bennett, Hatch
2008 WV $764,400 WVU Exhaust Emission Testing Initiative (Research [FTA]) NBR S THUD Byrd
2008 CA $3,331,515 Pierce's Disease/Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter, Parlier and Davis (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses) NBR AG Thompson (CA) Feinstein

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