Earmark Watch

Bringing Citizen Oversight to Congressional Spending

PLEASE NOTE: EarmarkWatch is an experimental distributed research project that contains data for Fiscal Year 2008 earmarks from the House and Senate Labor-HHS-Education bills and the 2008 House Defense Bill.

It does not contain 2009 earmarks. Congress released earmark disclosures for an omnibus bill that included three of the twelve regular appropriations bills—Defense, Homeland Security, and Military Construction/Veterans Affairs—for fiscal year 2009.

A downloadable spreadsheet listing those earmarks is available from Taxpayers for Common Sense (xls).

Recently Researched Earmarks

House Defense Appropriations, FY2008

“$1,500,000 to MTS Systems Corporation for Rotocraft Survivability Assessment Facility”

Sponsors:

(0 Comments, 100% Complete)

House Defense Appropriations, FY2008

“$1,000,000 to Northrop Grumman for Maritime Intelligence Integration for Shared Situational Awareness”

Sponsor:

(0 Comments, 100% Complete)

House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations, FY2008

“$300,000 for Towson University, Towson, MD for an education partnership with the City of Baltimore, Baltimore City Public School System and the Cherry Hill community”

Sponsor:

(0 Comments, 100% Complete)

Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations, FY2008

“$550,000 for Illinois Primary Health Care Association to develop an electronic medical record system”

Sponsors:

(0 Comments, 19% Complete)

House Defense Appropriations, FY2008

“$2,000,000 to Concurrent Technologies Corporation for Advanced Combatant Materials Research”

Sponsor:

(0 Comments, 75% Complete)

House Defense Appropriations, FY2008

“$3,000,000 to DRS, Inc. for Aegis CIC Virtualization / Common Presentation Layer Integration”

Sponsor:

(1 Comments, 56% Complete)

House Defense Appropriations, FY2008

“$3,000,000 to Concurrent Technologies Corporation for Transformation and Modernization of Air Force Weapons Systems”

Sponsor:

(3 Comments, 94% Complete)

House Defense Appropriations, FY2008

“$3,000,000 to Mountain Top Technologies for Virtual Medical Trainer”

Sponsor:

(1 Comments, 100% Complete)

House Defense Appropriations, FY2008

“$15,000,000 to Windber Research Institute for Military Molecular Medicine Initiative (M3I)”

Sponsor:

(2 Comments, 100% Complete)

House Defense Appropriations, FY2008

“$8,500,000 to Applied Enterprise Solutions, LLC for Unique Identification of Tangible Items”

Sponsor:

(6 Comments, 100% Complete)

House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations, FY2008

“$200,000 for Friends of the Children National, Portland, OR for mentoring programs”

Sponsor:

(0 Comments, 100% Complete)

House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations, FY2008

“$275,000 for Whidden Memorial Hospital, Everett, MA for facilities and equipment”

Sponsor:

(0 Comments, 100% Complete)

House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations, FY2008

“$50,000 for Thurston-Mason County Medical Society, Olympia, WA for a demonstration project to increase care for non-English speaking patients”

Sponsor:

(1 Comments, 100% Complete)

House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations, FY2008

“$500,000 for HealthEast Care System, S1. Paul, MN for health information systems”

Sponsors:

(0 Comments, 100% Complete)

House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations, FY2008

“$150,000 for Texas A&M University - Kingsville, Kingsville, TX for facilities and equipment for a research facility”

Sponsor:

(0 Comments, 100% Complete)

House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations, FY2008

“$200,000 for People, Inc., Williamsville, NY for electronic health records upgrades”

Sponsors:

(0 Comments, 100% Complete)

House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations, FY2008

“$250,000 for United Jewish Communities of MetroWest, NJ, Parsippany, NJ for the Lifelong Involvement for Vital Elders Aging in Place initiative”

Sponsor:

(0 Comments, 100% Complete)

House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations, FY2008

“$200,000 for Madison County Memorial Hospital, Rexburg, 10 for facilities and equipment”

Sponsor:

(1 Comments, 100% Complete)

House Defense Appropriations, FY2008

“$4,000,000 to General Dynamics for Super High Accuracy Range Kit - 105mm Artillery Technology”

Sponsor:

(0 Comments, 94% Complete)

House Defense Appropriations, FY2008

“$3,000,000 to ATK for Mortar Anti- Personnel Anti-Material (MAPAM) Technology”

Sponsors:

(0 Comments, 19% Complete)

House Defense Appropriations, FY2008

“$3,500,000 to Intergraph for Strategic Airlift Aircraft Availability Improvements”

Sponsor:

(2 Comments, 56% Complete)

Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations, FY2008

“$450,000 for Washington, Ozaukee, Waukesha Workforce Development Inc., for advanced manufacturing and technology training”

Sponsor:

(0 Comments, 81% Complete)

Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations, FY2008

“$250,000 for Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin, Inc., to provide training, employment and supportive services, including for individuals with disabilities”

Sponsor:

(1 Comments, 94% Complete)

House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations, FY2008

“$150,000 for Beloit College, Beloit, WI for equipment and technology”

Sponsor:

(1 Comments, 75% Complete)

House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations, FY2008

“$150,000 for St. Mary's Hospital, Madison, WI for facilities and equipment”

Sponsor:

(1 Comments, 81% Complete)

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