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 NJ $100,000 Public Health Research Institute, Newark, to implement Phase III Deployment of an electronic surveillance and alert system to produce real-time local and regional data (PHIL – HHS) NBR C LABHHS
2005 CO $250,000 City of Denver, Department of Health and Human Services, for mental health services to homeless and at-risk youth (CMHS – SAMHSA) NBR C LABHHS
2005 $300,000 Workforce planning efforts (Safety & Operations – Federal Railroad Administration) C THUD
2005 AZ $1,300,000 Chandler Municipal Airport, heliport relocation (Grants in Aid for Airports – Federal Aviation Administration) NBR THUD
2005 KS $2,000,000 Interchange at K-7 & 55th Street/Johnson Dr., Shawnee (National Corridor Planning and Border Development Program – Federal Highway Administration) NBR C THUD
2005 WA $230,000 Des Moines Beach Park and North Marina Entrances improvements (Federal-Aid Highways – Federal Highway Administration) NBR C THUD
2005 $375,000 Runway Obstruction Warning System (Advanced Technology Development and Prototyping – Federal Aviation Administration) NBR S THUD
2005 MO $1,000,000 Nash Road Extension (Federal-Aid Highways – Federal Highway Administration) NBR C THUD
2005 NY $800,000 Walton Street Bridge (Federal-Aid Highways – Federal Highway Administration) NBR C THUD
2005 LA $5,000,000 I-69, Louisiana sections (Federal-Aid Highways – Federal Highway Administration) NBR C THUD
2005 MO $1,250,000 Metro St. Louis (Bus & bus facilities – Federal Transit Administration) NBR C THUD
2005 AL $800,000 Coosa Valley Water Supply District for development of a surface water supply in St. Clair County (State and Tribal Assistance Grants – EPA) NBR S VAHUD
2005 ID $150,000 Spokane Region Chamber of Commerce for the Rathdrum Prairie/Spokane Valley Aquifer Study in Spokane County (Environmental Programs and Management – EPA) NBR H VAHUD
2005 IL $250,000 City of Shelbyville for wastewater infrastructure improvements (State and Tribal Assistance Grants – EPA) NBR H VAHUD
2005 AL $300,000 Auburn University to develop a Mobile Delta Initiative (Environmental Programs and Management – EPA) NBR C VAHUD
2005 SD $250,000 City of Sioux Falls for a day care center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S VAHUD
2005 NY $150,000 Yeled V'Yalda for construction of the Yeled V'Yalda Treatment Center for Children with Disabilities in Brooklyn (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H VAHUD
2005 NY $121,250 Rural Ulster Preservation Company in Kingston for renovations to the Kirkland Hotel (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H VAHUD
2005 CT $500,000 Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford for costs associated with restoration and development (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S VAHUD
2005 Multi-State $6,285,000 Wood utilization [AK, ID, ME, MI, MN, MS, NC, OR, TN, WV] (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education Activities – Special Research Grants) NBR AG
2005 WA $175,000 Tree fruit quality research, Wenatchee (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses) NBR H AG
2005 KY $600,000 Western Kentucky University Spotlight Youth Program (Discretionary Grants – Juvenile Justice Programs) NBR S COM
2005 SD $425,000 Oglala Sioux Tribe Judicial System operations (State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Byrne Discretionary Grant) NBR S COM
2005 HI $1,500,000 BWET Hawaii (NOAA – NOAA-Wide Program Support, Education Program) NBR COM
2005 HI $1,000,000 Honolulu Police Department Crime Lab (Crime Identification Technology Act – Community Oriented Policing Services) NBR C COM
2005 OH $1,500,000 Toledo Shipyard Improvement Plan (Operation and Maintenance, Navy) NBR H DEF
2005 $300,000 Veterinary manpower evelopment (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF
2005 $1,200,000 Secure group communications (Research, De velopment, Test and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR S DEF
2005 $3,500,000 CAV technology transition (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF
2005 $500,000 Life Sciences Research Initiative (Defense Health Program) NBR C DEF
2005 $2,100,000 Integrated Marine Mammal Monitoring and Protection System (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR S DEF
2005 $4,000,000 Precision Terrain Aided Navigation (PTAN) Titanium Matrix Composites (TMC) for warhead applications (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF
2005 $4,000,000 Anti-torpedo torpedo (ATT) (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF
2005 $1,000,000 Guardian Angel (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF
2005 $2,800,000 Micro-detonics for miniature weapons (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Navy) NBR DEF
2005 $2,250,000 Strategic Materials/Strategic Manufacturing Initiative (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF
2005 IL $500,000 Deer Creek Reservoir, Ford Heights [Small Flood Control Projects] (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR H ENERGY
2005 IL $4,200,000 Chicago shoreline (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR H ENERGY
2005 MD $500,000 Atlantic Coast of Maryland (Corps of Engineers: Construction) NBR C ENERGY
2005 ID $50,000 Little Wood River [Planning] (Corp of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR C ENERGY
2005 AL $500,000 Alternative fuel source study (Renewable Energy Resources – Department of Energy) NBR C ENERGY
2005 $104,000,000 Port security grants (State and Local Programs – Office for State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness) NBR HS
2005 $500,000 Traditional Challenge Cost Share Program (Operation of the National Park System – National Park Service) NBR C INT
2005 $1,000,000 Continue and expand research on coal bed methane, including produced water research (Fossil Energy Research & Development – Department of Energy) NBR S INT
2005 VA $600,000 Ready to Learn Television Program (Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS
2005 OH $50,000 Toledo Zoo, for Thinking Works (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR C LABHHS
2005 IL $300,000 Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, to implement an English language instructional program (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR C LABHHS
2005 Multi-State $100,000 Ballet Theater Foundation, Inc., New York City, for the Make a Ballet program at the Waterside School, Stamford, CT (Fund for the Improvement of Education – DoED) NBR C LABHHS
2005 OK $50,000 Seminole State College, Seminole, for the Excel-erated Transitional Nursing program (Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education) NBR C LABHHS
2005 IL $750,000 Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital, Dixon, for facilities and equipment (Health Resources and Services Administration – Department of Health and Human Services) NBR C LABHHS

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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