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
2003 $3,330,000 Commercial Space Centers (NASA) NBR C VAHUD
2003 ME $450,000 Augusta for its sewer system (State and Tribal Assistance Grants – EPA) NBR S VAHUD
2003 RI $180,000 Tides Family Services in Providence and Pawtucket to acquire and renovate two new buildings (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S VAHUD
2003 MA $450,000 Boston Metro Area Planning Council in coop. with the Mass. Technology Collaborative for a Comp. Water Res. Strategy for I-495 (Environmental Programs and Management – EPA) NBR VAHUD
2003 MA $425,000 Seafood safety (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education Activities: Special Research Grants) NBR AG
2003 WV $300,000 Potomac and Ohio River Basin soil nutrient project (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Conservation Operations) NBR AG
2003 UT $500,000 Ogden City Police Department for an automatic finger print identification system NBR S COM
2003 CA $500,000 Imperial County for the development of an inter-agency emergency communications system (Technology Program – Community Oriented Policing Services) NBR C COM
2003 $300,000 National Association of Town Watch's National Night Out crime prevention program (Edward Byrne Grants to States – Office of Justice Programs) NBR C COM
2003 $7,700,000 PIPES (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR S DEF
2003 $4,000,000 Rapid Target Acquisition Tracking System (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF
2003 $1,500,000 Facial Recognition Access Control and Surveillance (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR H DEF
2003 $2,200,000 Sanitation Center, Field Feeding System for Army Reserve (Other Procurement – Army) NBR H DEF
2003 $5,300,000 Smart Micro Sensor Arrays for Shipboard Damage Control (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Navy) NBR H DEF
2003 $5,100,000 Oceanographic Sensors for Mine Countermeasures (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Navy) NBR H DEF
2003 $9,300,000 120 MM HEAT MP-T M830A1 (Procurement of Ammo – Navy and Marine Corps) NBR S DEF
2003 VA $1,000,000 Appomattox River (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance) NBR H ENERGY
2003 AL $500,000 Duck River, Cullman (Corps of Engineers: Construction General) NBR H ENERGY
2003 AZ $2,320,000 Saguaro National Park (Land Acquisition – National Park Service) H INT
2003 UT $200,000 Ogden Union Station (Historic Preservation Fund – National Park Service) NBR C INT
2003 WY $1,700,000 University of Wyoming for acquisition of technology and equipment (Fund for the improvement of Postsecondary Education – Dept. of Education) NBR C LABHHS
2003 VT $250,000 World Learning, School for International Training, Brattleboro to enhance studies programs at historically black colleges (Institute of Museum and Library Services – Department of Education) NBR C LABHHS
2003 WA $100,000 Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery to create a national demonstration program, Spokane (Child Abuse – Administration for Children and Families) NBR C LABHHS
2003 ME $400,000 University of Maine, Coaching Education Initiative to support a research-based curriculum development and community awareness program (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Dept. of Education) NBR C LABHHS
2003 IA $2,000,000 Continuation and expansion of the Iowa Communications Network statewide fiber optic demonstration (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) NBR C LABHHS
2003 FL $500,000 Florida Emergency Medicine Foundation, Orange County (Health Resources & Services Administration – Health & Human Services) NBR C LABHHS
2003 IL $225,000 Safer Foundation for the Workplace Acclimation Program for Ex-Offenders, Harvey (Training & Employment Services – Employment & Training Administration) NBR C LABHHS
2003 AZ $13,000,000 Land acquisistion, Luke Air Force Base NBR C MILCON
2003 FL $1,000,000 Englewood Interstate Connector – Sarasota County (Surface Transportation Projects – Secretary of Transportation) NBR C THUD
2003 MS $500,000 Northside Drive Corridor Design, Clinton (Transportation and Community and System Pilot Preservation Program – Federal Highway Administration) NBR S THUD
2003 NJ $250,000 Harrison PATH Station Rehabilitation (Bus and Bus Facilities – Federal Transit Administration) NBR H THUD
2003 TX $1,750,000 Laredo, Administrative/Operations/Maintenance Facility (Bus and Bus Facilities – Federal Transit Administration) NBR H THUD
2003 KY $1,425,000 Kentucky Scenic Byways (Scenic Byways – Federal Highway Administration) NBR H THUD
2003 CA $300,000 City of Sierra Madre Buses and Natural Gas Vehicle Fueling Station (Bus and Bus Facilities – Federal Transit Administration) NBR THUD
2003 NY $270,000 Armory Foundation in New York for conversion of the Washington Heights Armory into a community center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H VAHUD
2003 FL $202,500 MainStreet Deland Association, Inc. for restoration of the Athens Theatre (Economic Development Initiative) NBR H VAHUD
2003 KY $450,000 Upgrades to the ADAS satellite tracking facility at Morehead State University (NASA) NBR H VAHUD
2003 MI $900,000 City of Port Huron for sewer infrastructure improvements (State and Tribal Assistance Grants – EPA) NBR S VAHUD
2003 NV $900,000 City of Reno for the rehabilitation of a building for a senior center (Economic Development Initiative) NBR S VAHUD
2003 KS $180,000 Equus Beds Water Quality Protection project in Wichita (Environmental Programs and Management – EPA) NBR H VAHUD
2003 Multi-State $400,000 Small fruit research [ID, OR, WA] (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education Activities: Special Research Grants) NBR AG
2003 NY $250,000 Address non-point pollution in Onondaga Lake Watershed (Natural Resources Conservation Service: Conservation Operations) NBR H AG
2003 AR $1,000,000 Arkansas State Police for an automated fingerprint identification system NBR S COM
2003 VA $1,000,000 Chesapeake public safety departments for a computer aided dispatch system (Technology Program – Community Oriented Policing Services) NBR C COM
2003 $750,000 Kristen's Act (Edward Byrne Grants to States – Office of Justice Programs) NBR C COM
2003 $2,800,000 BRITE (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR S DEF
2003 $4,250,000 MEMS for Defense Applications (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF
2003 $2,100,000 Deep Digger (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR S DEF
2003 $3,500,000 Handheld Standoff Mine Detection System (Other Procurement – Army) NBR H DEF
2003 $5,000,000 High Temperature Superconducting AC Propulsion Motor and Generator (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Navy) NBR 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