On March 12, 2010

• Added FY 2009 estimates for Conference action on the following bills: Defense and Energy and Water Development.

On March 9, 2010

• Added FY 2009 estimates for Conference action on the following bills: Agriculture and Rural Development; Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies; Financial Services and General Government; Homeland Security; Interior and Environment; Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education; Military Construction and Veterans Affairs; State and Foreign Operations; and Transportation and Housing and Urban Development.

On September 4, 2009

• Updated FY 2008 earmarks for recipients/beneficiaries.

On September 12, 2008

• Added FY 2009 estimates for Senate Committee action on the Energy and Water Development and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs bills; and added FY 2009 estimates of House Committee and Floor action for the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs bill.

On September 5, 2008

• Added FY 2009 estimates for Senate Committee action on the following bills: Agriculture and Rural Development; Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies; Financial Services and General Government; Homeland Security; Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education; State and Foreign Operations; and Transportation and Housing and Urban Development.
• Adjusted 2008 earmark and baseline data for comparability to 2009 estimates for Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies; Energy and Water Development; Homeland Security; and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.

On July 7, 2008

• Updated site to include earmarks in the FY 2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act; these are updates to the estimates published in January 2008.
• Added search capability for FY 2008 Appropriations; by Agency and State.
• Updated Totals for FY 2008 Appropriations Earmarks/Benchmark PDF for "Cut in Half" Goal.
• Updated individual earmarks view page with new fields including Sponsor, and Congressional District or State.
• Reflects FY 2008 mid-year information on recipients/beneficiaries, where available.

On January 28, 2008

• Updated site to include a summary page of FY 2008 Appropriations earmarks.

On January 18, 2008

• Updated the FY 2008 Appropriations bill earmark estimates to include Conference action for all bills as specified in the Department of Defense and Consolidated Appropriations Acts.
• Made minor corrections in number and dollar amount of earmarks in previous stages of FY 2008 appropriations bills for Defense, Labor, HHS, Education, and Transportation and HUD.

On November 5, 2007

• Updated the FY 2008 Appropriations bill earmark estimates to include Senate floor action for the Labor, HHS, Education bill.

On October 30, 2007

• Updated the FY 2008 Appropriations bill earmark estimates to include Senate floor action for the Defense and Commerce, Justice, Science bills.

On October 10, 2007

• Updated the FY 2008 Appropriations bill earmark estimates to include Senate Committee action for the Defense bill.
• Corrected dollar amount errors in the FY 2005 data for the Department of Labor, resulting in a $5.67 million increase to the total. The total number of earmarks in the FY 2005 baseline remains the same.

On October 5, 2007

• Updated the FY 2008 Appropriations bill earmark estimates to include Senate floor action through September 12, 2007.
• Made minor corrections in number and dollar amount of earmarks in FY 2008 appropriations bills for Agriculture, Defense, Energy and Water Development, and Military Construction and VA.

On August 21, 2007

• Updated the FY 2008 Appropriations bill earmark estimates to include all Congressional action through August 3, 2007 (the beginning of Congress' August recess).
• Made minor corrections to contact information for FY 2005 Authorization earmarks.

On August 8, 2007

• Updated the FY 2008 Appropriations bill earmark estimates.
• Corrected the number and dollar amount of earmarks in the Labor, HHS, and Education and Related Agencies bill, resulting in an increase in both.

On August 1, 2007

• Updated the FY 2008 Appropriations bill earmark estimates.
• Corrected the number and amount of earmarks for the Army Corps of Engineers, resulting increases at all stages currently published.

On July 24, 2007

• Updated the FY 2008 Appropriations bill earmark estimates.
• Made a minor correction to the total number of FY 2005 Authorization Earmarks.

On July 10, 2007

• Added earmarks contained in selected authorization bills resulting in expenditures in FY 2005.
• Added estimates on the number and cost of earmarks in the individual FY 2008 Appropriations bills as they move through the legislative process.

On May 09, 2007

• Added capability for searching the full text of earmark entries by key word.
• Added additional information on recipients for Army Corps of Engineers.
• Reviewed whether certain entries met the earmark definition.
• Changed citation of certain earmarks in the Department of Education from 2005 appropriations to the underlying authorization statute.
• Corrected citation source for earmarks in U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Transportation to reflect their mention in authorization report language.
• Removed reference to authorization bills on agency pages in the 2005 appropriation data. Earmarks in authorization bills and reports will be added to the website at a later time.

On April 15, 2007

• Removed double counts from Department of Defense earmarks, resulting in a $108 million decrease to the total tabulated monetary value.
• Added new information for recipients previously labeled "not yet available" for Army Corps of Engineers and Department of Transportation.
• Corrected amounts for across-the-board rescissions in Department of Energy.
• Made minor corrections to Department of Commerce, Department of Justice, Environmental Protection Agency.

Please note that for some earmarks with multiple recipients, the amount has not yet been allocated among the intended recipients. In these cases, the aggregate amount is listed under one (usually the primary) recipient. The "amount" column for the other recipients is left blank in order to calculate the correct total amount of earmarked funds.

On April 12, 2007

• Added a new CSV (comma space delimited) with improved formatting and updated instructions on CSV file page.