Earmarks requested by Rep. John Conyers
Data from Fiscal Year 2008 appropriations bills supplied by Taxpayers for Common Sense.
| Amount | Earmark Description | Intended Recipient | |
| $ | for | Focus; HOPE, Detroit, MI for an experiential learning laboratory and related equipment and technology to support undergraduate education and training | |
| $7,872,000 | for | Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Second Barrier | |
| $4,239,000 | for | US Property and Fiscal Office and Readiness Center Renovation | |
| $4,000,000 | for | Manufacturing and Repair Cell | |
| $3,936,000 | for | Consortium for Plant Biomass, Inc. | |
| $1,723,000 | for | Great Lakes Fisheries Resource Office, Fish Mass Marking Equipment | |
| $1,600,000 | for | Component Optimization for Ground Systems | Component Optimization for Ground Systems; Onodi Tool and Engineering |
| $1,600,000 | for | SWORDS Safety Confirmation Testing for Accelerated Fielding and Production | National Technical Systems Corporation |
| $1,000,000 | for | Software Assurance Education and Research Institute - University of Detroit Mercy | University of Detroit-Mercy |
| $738,000 | for | Chicago Sanitary And Ship Canal Dispersal Barrier, IL | |
| $735,000 | for | Bus Maintenance Facility | |
| $634,500 | for | United Way of Southeastern Michigan Ex-Offender Reentry Program | |
| $517,000 | for | Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research | |
| $500,000 | for | Economic Development Coalition of Southeast Michigan for business accelerator | |
| $493,500 | for | Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries, Wildwood Ranch Youth Programs, MI | |
| $423,000 | for | "Missing Persons" (Locating the Ones We Love) | |
| $376,000 | for | Detroit, MI Drug Violence Enforcement | |
| $376,000 | for | Truancy Reduction Initiative, Wayne County, MI | |
| $365,000 | for | Detroit Primary Care Access, Detroit, MI for health care information technology | |
| $347,800 | for | Wayne County Department of Public Services, Detroit, MI, for a truancy intervention program | |
| $294,000 | for | City of Detroit for demolition of abandoned properties as part of a redevelopment plan | |
| $292,000 | for | Wayne County Department of Public Health, Detroit, MI for a lead poisoning assessment, prevention, and intervention program | |
| $282,000 | for | Detroit Renaissance for a business district | |
| $245,000 | for | Bus Component Overhaul | |
| $245,000 | for | Replacement Buses | |
| $245,000 | for | Greenway Path and Bridge, Southgate | |
| $211,500 | for | Wayne County, MI Radio Communications Interoperability | |
| $196,000 | for | City of Detroit, for infrastructure improvements to continue the revitalization of the Brush Park Historic District neighborhood | |
| $188,000 | for | Detroit, MI Business to Youth Mentoring Project | |
| $188,000 | for | Wayne County, MI Juvenile Reentry Initiative | |
| $188,000 | for | Ruth Ellis Center Street Outreach Program, Highland Park | |
| $178,600 | for | Ruth Ellis Center, Highland Park, MI, for an outreach program | |
| $0 | for | Advanced Mobile Microgrid System | Next Energy |
