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
1997 $3,000,000 Computer Aided Diagnostic Research (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) NBR C DEF
1997 NV $100,000 Walker River Basin Restoration (Army Corps of Engineers – General Investigation) NBR C ENERGY
1997 $100,000,000 Tech-Prep Education (Vocational and Adult Education – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS
1997 OK $2,000,000 Oklahoma City MAPS Corridor Transit System (Federal Transit Administration – New Fixed Guideways) NBR S THUD
1997 $12,000,000 Radar Satellite (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) NBR S VAHUD
1997 NM $127,000 Phytophthora Root Rot (Cooperative State Research Service – Special Research Grants) NBR AG
1997 $300,000 Wavelength Converting Devices Applied to WDM Lightpath Channels (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR S DEF
1997 $3,500,000 Advanced Cancer Detection Center for Military (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) NBR C DEF
1997 MO $50,000 Kimmswick (Army Corps of Engineers – General Investigation) NBR H ENERGY
1997 $7,441,000 High School Equivalency Program (Migrant Education – Department of Education) NBR C LABHHS
1997 IN $500,000 Northern Indiana Commuter Rail Project (Federal Transit Administration – New Fixed Guideways) NBR H THUD
1997 HI $2,000,000 Development, replication and distribution of a national prototype space education curriculum to be developed by the Bishop Museum in Honolulu (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) NBR C VAHUD
1997 $338,000 Southwest Consortium for Plant Genetics and Water Resources (Cooperative State Research Service – Special Research Grants) NBR AG
1997 $1,000,000 Holographic Storage Technology (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR S DEF
1997 $10,000,000 Bone Disease Research Program (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF
1997 MO $650,000 St. Louis Harbor (Army Corps of Engineers – General Investigation) NBR S ENERGY
1997 $2,028,000 College Assistance Migrant Program (Migrant Education – Department of Education) NBR C LABHHS
1997 LA $2,000,000 New Orleans Desire Streetcar Project (Federal Transit Administration – New Fixed Guideways) NBR H THUD
1997 $10,000,000 TIMED program (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) NBR C VAHUD
1997 Multi-State $212,000 Small Fruit Research [ID, OR, WA] (Cooperative State Research Service – Special Research Grants) NBR AG
1997 $17,000,000 DEPSCOR (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR DEF
1997 $25,000,000 Neurotoxin Exposure Therapies (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF
1997 $4,620,000 Loss Prevention Upgrades (Environment, Safety, and Health – Construction) NBR ENERGY
1997 $12,000,000 National Youth Sports (Children and Families Services Programs – Health and Human Services) NBR LABHHS
1997 NJ $500,000 New Jersey West Trenton Commuter Rail Project (Federal Transit Administration – New Fixed Guideways) NBR H THUD
1997 $12,000,000 Advanced Space Transportation (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) NBR C VAHUD
1997 MS $305,000 Seafood and Aquaculture Harvesting, Processing, and Marketing (Cooperative State Research Service – Special Research Grants) NBR AG
1997 $1,000,000 Cold Climate Energy Generating/Conserving Tech Dev (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR S DEF
1997 $2,300,000 Calcium Signaling Cancer Cell Proliferation (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) NBR H DEF
1997 $7,424,000 Multiprogram Energy Laboratories Upgrades, Various Locations (Environment, Safety, and Health – Construction) NBR ENERGY
1997 $100,636,000 Services (Libraries – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS
1997 WV $4,240,000 Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit System (Federal Transit Administration – New Fixed Guideways) NBR S THUD
1997 $5,000,000 WindSat program (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) NBR S VAHUD
1997 Multi-State $644,000 Rural Policies Institute [MO, NE] (Cooperative State Research Service – Special Research Grants) NBR AG
1997 $3,000,000 Southern Observatory for Astronomical Research (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR S DEF
1997 $7,000,000 Prostate Cancer Research [Walter Reed] (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF
1997 $1,032,000 Sanitary System Mods. (Environment, Safety, and Health – Construction) NBR ENERGY
1997 $16,369,000 Construction (Libraries – Department of Education) NBR S LABHHS
1997 OR $6,000,000 Portland South/North Light Rail Transit Project (Federal Transit Administration – New Fixed Guideways) NBR S THUD
1997 OR $1,700,000 Earthquake Hazard Mitigation Program with the City of Portland and the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (Federal Emergency Management Agency) NBR S VAHUD
1997 AR $395,000 Rice Modeling (Cooperative State Research Service – Special Research Grants) NBR AG
1997 $4,000,000 Safeguard (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR S DEF
1997 $8,000,000 M1A2 Next Generation Tank Upgrade (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF
1997 $224,000 Fire and Safety Improvements, Phase II (Environment, Safety, and Health – Construction) NBR ENERGY
1997 $11,864,000 Interlibrary Cooperation (Libraries – Department of Education) NBR LABHHS
1997 WA $3,000,000 Seattle-Renton-Tacoma Light Rail Project (Federal Transit Administration – New Fixed Guideways) NBR S THUD
1997 Multi-State $294,000 Regionalized Implications of Farm Programs [MO, TX] (Cooperative State Research Service – Special Research Grants) NBR AG
1997 $2,500,000 Ship System Automation (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Defense Wide) NBR H DEF
1997 $2,400,000 Nutrition Research (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation – Army) NBR S DEF
1997 $1,000,000 Fire Safety Imp. (Environment, Safety, and Health – Construction) NBR ENERGY

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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