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
2005 TX $250,000 Lower Colorado River Basin (Corps of Engineers: General Investigations) NBR H ENERGY
2005 OH $125,000 Ohio Northern University, Ada, Science and Pharmacy Building (Biological & Environmental Research – Department of Energy) NBR C ENERGY
2005 DC $400,000 Children's Hospital/capital development lab (Federal Payment to the Office of Chief Financial Officer) NBR C FINSER
2005 IN $306,000 Rehab of Porter Beach restrooms at Indiana Dunes NL (Operation of the National Park System – National Park Service) NBR H INT
2005 MT $500,000 Montana Water Center Wild Fish Habitat Initiative (Resource Management – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) NBR S INT
2005 TX $360,000 Memorial Hermann Health System, Houston, for facilities and equipment for neighborhood health centers (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR C LABHHS
2005 NY $900,000 Institute for Student Achievement, Lake Success, to implement school reform activities in certain school districts in New York (Fund for the Improvement of Education) NBR C LABHHS
2005 MN $240,000 Augsburg College, Minneapolis, for a post baccalaureate program for underrepresented students, including student stipends (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education) NBR C LABHHS
2005 AK $300,000 Alaska Native Heritage Center, Anchorage, in cooperation with the Koahnic Broadcasting Corporation for its Elders Oral History Project (Institute of Museum & Library Sciences) NBR C LABHHS
2005 FL $100,000 University of Florida, Gainesville, for equipment for the Norman Hall project (Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education) NBR C LABHHS
2005 NE $1,000,000 Omaha Performing Arts Center in Nebraska for telecommunications systems (Institute of Museum & Library Sciences – Department of Education) NBR C LABHHS
2005 IA $333,000 Des Moines University, for facilities and equipment for the Iowa Chronic Care Consortium (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR C LABHHS
2005 OR $95,000 Umatilla County in Pendleton for construction of a public health facility (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR C LABHHS
2005 WV $4,000,000 West Virginia Wesleyan College for the construction of an expansion of the Christopher Health Science Center (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR C LABHHS
2005 NM $250,000 New Mexico Primary Health Care Association to fund a community health worker demonstration project statewide (Health Resources and Services Administration – HHS) NBR C LABHHS
2005 VT $450,000 Vermont Department of Employment and Training for a statewide career development system (Employment and Training Administration – Department of Labor) NBR C LABHHS
2005 PA $50,000 Boys and Girls Club of Erie, to implement the SMART Moves Prevention Program (Center for Substance Abuse Prevention – SAMHSA) NBR C LABHHS
2005 OR $4,917,000 Salem, Army Aviation Support Facility (Army National Guard) NBR H MILCON
2005 GA $750,000 Macon Terminal Station (Bus & bus facilities – Federal Transit Administration) NBR H THUD
2005 $500,000 101st Street corridor widening (Federal-Aid Highways – Federal Highway Administration) NBR C THUD
2005 IL $650,000 ITS-Springfield (Intelligent Transportation Systems – Federal Highway Administration) NBR C THUD
2005 UT $500,000 I-15, 24th Street Interchange, Ogden (Interstate Maintenance Discretionary – Federal Highway Administration) NBR S THUD
2005 MO $5,500,000 Missouri Statewide JARC (Job Access and Reverse Commute Grants – Federal Transit Adminstration) NBR C THUD
2005 PA $125,000 Chester County Transit Security Training Facility (Transit Planning and Research – Federal Transit Administration) NBR S THUD
2005 NY $250,000 Maspeth Chamber of Commerce's truck traffic impact (Federal-Aid Highways – Federal Highway Administration) NBR C THUD
2005 PA $900,000 Fayette Area Coordinated Transportation (FACT) buses and bus facilities (Bus & bus facilities – Federal Transit Administration) NBR C THUD
2005 PA $2,000,000 Union Station Intermodal Trade and Transit Center, Schuylkill County (Bus & bus facilities – Federal Transit Administration) NBR C THUD
2005 NY $250,000 Town of Cheektowaga for the Plant No. 3 overflow retention facility (State and Tribal Assistance Grants – EPA) NBR H VAHUD
2005 WA $500,000 City of Kennewick for drinking water infrastructure improvements (State and Tribal Assistance Grants – EPA) NBR S VAHUD
2005 CA $100,000 Sweetwater Authority for the water quality monitoring in Chula Vista (State and Tribal Assistance Grants – EPA) NBR H VAHUD
2005 MS $1,850,000 Mississippi State University for renovation of the Lloyd-Ricks building in Starkville, Mississippi (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S VAHUD
2005 IL $275,000 Glen Oak Zoo in Peoria for facilities construction and renovation of a new Africa exhibit (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H VAHUD
2005 FL $375,000 City of Palm Harbor for the downtown revitalization project (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H VAHUD
2005 NJ $72,750 Fort Lee Senior Center in Fort Lee for expansion (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H VAHUD
2005 OH $400,000 Glennan Microsystems Commercialization Initiative (NASA) NBR H VAHUD
2005 UT $1,125,000 Washington fields (Conservation Operations) NBR S AG
2005 ND $178,000 Biobased nanocomposite research (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education Activities – Special Research Grants) NBR S AG
2005 IL $100,000 Village of Riverdale programs for youth (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR C COM
2005 NY $400,000 Urban Justice Center (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM
2005 $500,000 Halibut data collection (NOAA – National Marine Fisheries Service, Fish) NBR S COM
2005 CA $200,000 Salinas for the Mobile Automated Fingerprint and Facial Recognition System (Law Enforcement Technology – Community Oriented Policing Services) NBR H COM
2005 VA $60,000 Orange County Sheriff's Office for law enforcement technologies (Law Enforcement Technology – Community Oriented Policing Services) NBR C COM
2005 CA $2,000,000 Angel Gate Academy (Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard) NBR C DEF
2005 $3,250,000 Anti-material sniper rifle (AMSR) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF
2005 $1,600,000 Titanium matrix composites (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR S DEF
2005 CA $1,000,000 Advanced aerospace vehicle cooling technologies (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR H DEF
2005 $2,000,000 SOF technology integration (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR S DEF
2005 $1,000,000 Advanced Simplified Hybrid Fuel Cell/LiON Battery Program for the Objective Force Warrior (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF
2005 $1,000,000 Littoral AWS Mission for Rigid Hull-Inflatable Boat (RHIB) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR H DEF
2005 $1,500,000 Affordable multi-junction solar cells (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR H DEF

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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