**First posted Feb. 14, 2008**

Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) staff and interns have devoted thousands of hours to researching, reconciling, and double-checking every earmark identified by Congress and every spending item that meets our definition of an earmark.  We have created a comprehensive database of all of the earmarks in the final Fiscal Year 2008 spending bills and, for the first time, connected almost every earmark with a political sponsor.  The analysis below and accompanying database is the culmination of that work.

TCS Analysis, Ending the Earmark ATM – Despite Reforms, Earmarks Continue to Thrive
 

Download the Complete TCS FY2008 Earmark Database

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