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 WI $379,000 Potato pest management (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Extension Activities) NBR AG
2005 ME $3,000,000 Northeast Marine Cold Water Aquaculture Research Center in Orono/Franklin (Agricultural Research Service – Buildings and Facilities) NBR S AG
2005 NH $1,000,000 Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR S COM
2005 UT $200,000 Weber State University's Criminal Justice Program (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR C COM
2005 IA $900,000 Institute for Science Technology and Public Policy (NOAA – Research, Other Partnership Programs) NBR S COM
2005 NM $125,000 New Mexico Department of Public Safety for law enforcement technologies (Law Enforcement Technology – Community Oriented Policing Services) NBR C COM
2005 $2,400,000 Sense and respond logistics 2 (Operation and Maintenance, Army) NBR H DEF
2005 AK $3,200,000 Alaska Land Mobile Radio (Operation and Maintenance – Air Force) NBR S DEF
2005 $1,000,000 Advanced image processing techniques for biomedical informatics (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF
2005 MD $1,200,000 Aberdeen Proving Ground Asbestos Conversion Facility (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF
2005 HI $1,000,000 Haleakala laser communications testbed (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR S DEF
2005 $1,700,000 Total Fleet Support (TFS) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR H DEF
2005 $400,000 Odor Signature Reduction Baselayer Garment evaluation (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR H DEF
2005 $3,000,000 Shipboard Wireless Maintenance Assistant (SWMA) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR S DEF
2005 $1,500,000 LEAN Munitions Program (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF
2005 $2,000,000 Procurement of 25-persion life rafts (Other Procurement, Navy) NBR H DEF
2005 $1,300,000 Joint High Power Solid State Laser Program (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Air Force) NBR H DEF
2005 NJ $60,000 Elizabeth River Valleyview Road, Hillside [Streambank & Shoreline Protection for Public Facilities] (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR C ENERGY
2005 MN $125,000 Upper Mississippi Place (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR C ENERGY
2005 KS $75,000 Wilson Lake (Corp of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR C ENERGY
2005 CA $425,000 Cambria seawater desalinization infrastructure (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR H ENERGY
2005 AK $1,500,000 Alaska Wind Energy Project [Wind] (Renewable Energy Resources – Department of Energy) NBR C ENERGY
2005 $14,000,000 Covert surveillance aircraft (Deepwater Aircraft – United States Coast Guard) NBR H HS
2005 Multi-State $400,000 Upper MS River NFWR [IA, IL MN, WI] (Land Acquisition – Fish and Wildlife Services) NBR S INT
2005 MD $200,000 Baltimore urban watershed (Forest and Rangeland Research – Department of Agriculture) NBR S INT
2005 $1,000,000 Embryo adoption awareness campaign (Office of the Secretary – Health and Human Services) NBR S LABHHS
2005 PA $100,000 Mann Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, to support arts education (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR C LABHHS
2005 PA $50,000 WQED Multimedia Pittsburgh, to develop educational programming for adolescents focusing on career literacy (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR C LABHHS
2005 CA $75,000 Bass Lake School District, for music and art education programs (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR C LABHHS
2005 AZ $250,000 Maricopa County Community College District, Tempe, for its Bilingual Nursing Fellow Program (Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education) NBR C LABHHS
2005 OH $200,000 Canton Museum of Art, to develop and implement the HeARTland Program (Institute of Museum & Library Sciences – Department of Education) NBR C LABHHS
2005 RI $400,000 Kent County Memorial Hospital, Warwick, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR C LABHHS
2005 FL $2,000,000 Saint Anthony's Health Care Foundation in St. Petersburg for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR C LABHHS
2005 NY $50,000 ICAN/Kids Oneida, Utica (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR C LABHHS
2005 PR $600,000 Puerto Rico Administration for Children and Families, San Juan, for implementation of automated information systems for child welfare and other programs (Social Services & Income Maintenance) NBR C LABHHS
2005 PA $50,000 Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition, Ephrata, to expand and enhance their breast cancer guide book (Public Health Improvement and Leadership – Health and Human Services) NBR C LABHHS
2005 PA $100,000 Family Communications, Inc., Pittsburgh, for an antiviolence program entitled the National Project Managing Anger, Promoting Safety (CMHS – SAMHSA) NBR C LABHHS
2005 SD $7,000,000 Joe Foss Field, Squadron Operations Facility (Air National Guard) NBR S MILCON
2005 MI $1,000,000 Manistee County Blacker Airport, terminal project (Grants in Aid for Airports – Federal Aviation Administration) NBR THUD
2005 AL $250,000 Clayton Core Area Revitalization and Enhancement Program (Transportation and Community and System Preservation Program – Federal Highway Administration) NBR C THUD
2005 ID $530,000 College of Southern Idaho Student Safety Initiative (Federal-Aid Highways – Federal Highway Administration) NBR C THUD
2005 SD $1,000,000 Research into aviation grade ethanol fuels at South Dakota State University (Improve Commercial Aviation Safety – Federal Aviation Administration) NBR S THUD
2005 SC $1,000,000 North Augusta Riverfront road extensions (Federal-Aid Highways – Federal Highway Administration) NBR C THUD
2005 AL $1,000,000 US-231/I-10 Freeway Connector (Federal-Aid Highways – Federal Highway Administration) NBR C THUD
2005 AR $1,696,000 I-540 and Perry Road Interchange, Rogers (Federal-Aid Highways – Federal Highway Administration) NBR C THUD
2005 PA $220,000 Mid-County Transit Authority Kittanning (Bus & bus facilities – Federal Transit Administration) NBR C THUD
2005 CT $300,000 Town of East Hampton for drinking water infrastructure improvements (State and Tribal Assistance Grants – EPA) NBR S VAHUD
2005 SC $150,000 Mount Pleasant Waterworks for the Mount Pleasant Waterworks Rural Roads Gravity Wastewater Extension Project (State and Tribal Assistance Grants – EPA) NBR H VAHUD
2005 IA $250,000 City of Storm Lake for water infrastructure improvements (State and Tribal Assistance Grants – EPA) NBR H VAHUD
2005 NY $1,500,000 Onondaga County's Metropolitan Water Board to determine the feasibility of bringing naturally chilled water form Lake Ontario to Onondaga and Oswego County (Science and Technology – EPA) NBR H VAHUD

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