CAGW Uploads Database of Labor HHS Earmarks

CAGW* | December 9, 2007

CAGW made public this week a comprehensive, searchable database of the 2,243 earmarks worth $1 billion in the Fiscal 2008 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (Labor-HHS) Appropriations Act. President Bush vetoed the Labor-HHS bill on November 13, complaining it had too many earmarks, most of which appeared in obscure report language, rather than in bill text. “CAGW provides taxpayers with the information that Congress wants to keep under wraps: a convenient, searchable database of earmarked spending,” announced CAGW President Tom Schatz. “With our more transparent format, pork gems such as $882,025 for 25 ‘abstinence education’ programs in Pennsylvania, $500,000 for the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas, and $400,000 for Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York are more easily found.” Search the Labor-HHS database.

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