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 MI $350,000 City of Port Huron for revitalization (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S VAHUD
2005 TX $250,000 City of Arlington for facilities construction and land acquisition and including up to $100,000 for an economic development planning study (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H VAHUD
2005 FL $250,000 City of Boca Raton for sidewalks, street furniture and façade improvements (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H VAHUD
2005 NC $145,500 Town of Fuquay-Varina for renovation, expansion, and buildout of a community center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H VAHUD
2005 MS $4,000,000 Stennis Space Center for the commercial technology program (NASA) NBR S VAHUD
2005 $548,000 Watershed management demo program/NPPC (Conservation Operations) NBR C AG
2005 NY $241,000 Computational agriculture (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education Activities – Special Research Grants) NBR H AG
2005 DC $500,000 International Youth Service and Development Corps (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR C COM
2005 $1,000,000 International Center for Ending Violence (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR H COM
2005 AK $1,200,000 Marine debris removal (NOAA – National Ocean Service, Response and Restoration) NBR S COM
2005 WI $300,000 Sun Prairie Police Department for law enforcement technologies (Law Enforcement Technology – Community Oriented Policing Services) NBR C COM
2005 CA $250,000 Orange County Integrated Law and Justice System (Law Enforcement Technology – Community Oriented Policing Services) NBR C COM
2005 $1,300,000 Tactical Operations Center (Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard) NBR H DEF
2005 $1,000,000 Army Welding Deployment Initiative (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR C DEF
2005 $2,000,000 Secure hardware encryption device (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR DEF
2005 $2,800,000 EM gradiometer for the detection & confirmation of underground hiding places & passageways (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR DEF
2005 $1,000,000 Bio Medical DNA Program (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR H DEF
2005 $3,500,000 Seamless Data to Display System of Systems Security Integration Initiative (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF
2005 $2,000,000 Transportable Transponder Landing System (TTLS) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR H DEF
2005 $1,000,000 WR-ALC Maintenance Operations Support (MOS) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR H DEF
2005 $17,500,000 Bradley Fighting Vehicle reactive armor tiles (Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army) NBR S DEF
2005 $4,300,000 Life support for trauma and transport (Other Procurement, Army) NBR H DEF
2005 OH $475,000 Morgan County, McConnelsville, storm water project [Ohio Environmental Infrastructure] (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR H ENERGY
2005 MD $125,000 Greenbury Point [Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Projects] (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR C ENERGY
2005 VT $100,000 Burlington Harbor (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR C ENERGY
2005 PA $125,000 Town of Bloomsburg Local Flood Protection Project [planning] (Corps of Engineers: General Investigations) NBR H ENERGY
2005 CA $500,000 Project Intellicare, Roseville (Biological & Environmental Research – Department of Energy) NBR C ENERGY
2005 DC $250,000 Best Friends Foundation (Federal Payment to the Office of Chief Financial Officer) NBR C FINSER
2005 DC $2,000,000 National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs (National Foundation of the Arts and the Humanities) NBR INT
2005 NY $150,000 Ossining historic architecture protection (Historic Preservation Fund – National Park Service) NBR C INT
2005 TX $320,000 Valley Initiative for Development and Advancement, Weslaco, for a workforce training initiative (Employment and Training Administration – Department of Labor) NBR C LABHHS
2005 IL $500,000 Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Aurora, for the 21st Century Information Fluency Program (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR C LABHHS
2005 PA $100,000 Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, for equipment and wiring for a supercomputing facility (Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education) NBR C LABHHS
2005 PA $100,000 Family Communications, Inc., Pittsburgh, to develop the Girls and Math Science Pittsburgh Partnership (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR C LABHHS
2005 CA $255,000 University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, for a cross-disciplinary project (Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education) NBR C LABHHS
2005 OH $250,000 Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati (Institute of Museum & Library Sciences – Department of Education) NBR C LABHHS
2005 UT $70,000 Enterprise Valley Medical Clinic in Enterprise (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR C LABHHS
2005 MI $200,000 Port Huron Hospital in Port Huron for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR C LABHHS
2005 IA $100,000 Winneshiek County Memorial Hospital in Decorah for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR C LABHHS
2005 SD $250,000 Northern State University in Aberdeen (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR C LABHHS
2005 ID $900,000 University of Idaho, to continue and expand the Alternative Careers for Idaho Project, to assist persons dislocated from traditional resource-based Idaho careers (ETA – Dept. of Labor) NBR C LABHHS
2005 PA $25,000 Warren County Department of Human Services, Warren, for outreach and training for substance abuse prevention programs (Center for Substance Abuse Prevention – SAMHSA) NBR C LABHHS
2005 MO $7,600,000 Whiteman Air Force Base Child Development Center (Air Force) NBR H MILCON
2005 GA $450,000 Southern Fuel Cell Coalition – Center for Transportation and the Environment (Transit Planning and Research – Federal Transit Administration) NBR THUD
2005 CA $1,000,000 Ferry Boat for San Francisco Water Transit Authority (Ferry Boats and Ferry Terminal Facilities – Federal Highway Administration) NBR C THUD
2005 AL $1,500,000 Balch Road, Madison (Federal-Aid Highways – Federal Highway Administration) NBR C THUD
2005 CO $1,500,000 I-76 Northeast Gateway (Interstate Maintenance Discretionary – Federal Highway Administration) NBR C THUD
2005 OR $2,300,000 Portland Regional JARC (Job Access and Reverse Commute Grants – Federal Transit Adminstration) NBR C THUD
2005 $200,000 Study the correlation between driver history and future safety violations (Research and Technology – Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) NBR S THUD
2005 IN $2,000,000 Lloyd Expressway upgrade, Evansville (Federal-Aid Highways – Federal Highway Administration) NBR C THUD

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