Earmarks requested by Rep. Mike Simpson
Data from Fiscal Year 2008 appropriations bills supplied by Taxpayers for Common Sense.
| Amount | Earmark Description | Intended Recipient | |
| $7,615,000 | for | Training Area Railhead | |
| $7,500,000 | for | Special Olympics 2009 World Winter Games to support the educational, competitive athletic and public awareness objectives of the winter games. | |
| $4,064,000 | for | Rural Idaho | |
| $3,871,000 | for | City of Rocks Back Country Byway | |
| $3,200,000 | for | Vacuum Sampling Pathogen Collection and Concentration | Microbial-Vac Systems Inc. |
| $3,147,760 | for | Idaho Transit Coalition Buses and Bus Facilities | |
| $2,400,000 | for | 3-D Technology for Advanced Sensor Systems | |
| $2,400,000 | for | Read Out Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Improvement | |
| $2,400,000 | for | Systematic Approach to Radiation Hardened Electronics (SHARE) | American Superconductor, Inc. |
| $1,600,000 | for | Small Accelerators and Detection Systems for Homeland Defense and National Security Applications | Idaho State University |
| $1,600,000 | for | Integrated Patient Quality Program | |
| $1,593,000 | for | Logistics Readiness Center | |
| $1,500,000 | for | Survivability Program | |
| $1,470,000 | for | I-84, Curtis Road to Broadway Interchange Widening | |
| $1,222,000 | for | Idaho Department of Corrections | |
| $1,128,000 | for | Idaho State Police | |
| $1,086,000 | for | Rainbow Trout, Aberdeen, ID | |
| $986,000 | for | Tri-State predator control program in ID, MT, WY | APHIS Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming |
| $847,000 | for | Viticulture, Corvallis, OR | |
| $735,000 | for | Boise Airport, planning, design and construction to widen and lengthen Runway 9/27 | |
| $698,000 | for | Sugarbeet Research, Kimberly, ID | |
| $695,000 | for | Hagerman Fish Culture Experiment Station, for construction of this station | |
| $692,000 | for | Greater Yellowstone Interagency Brucellosis Committee, ID, MT, WY | Idaho State Department of Agriculture, Montana Department of Livestock, Wyoming Livestock Board |
| $642,000 | for | Increasing Shelf Life of Agricultural Commodities, ID | University of Idaho |
| $625,000 | for | Aquaculture Research, Aberdeen, ID | |
| $600,000 | for | Idaho Bureau of Homeland Security | |
| $547,000 | for | Barley for Rural Development, ID, MT | |
| $492,000 | for | The City of Twin Falls for the Auger Falls Wastewater Treatment Project | |
| $487,000 | for | St. Luke's Regional Medical Center for construction, renovation and equipment. | |
| $470,000 | for | Idaho State Police, Pocatello, ID, to support criminal information sharing | |
| $416,000 | for | Cool Season Legume Research, ID, ND, WA | University of Idaho, Washington Sate University, North Dakota State University |
| $394,000 | for | California Condor and Aplomado Falcon | |
| $390,000 | for | United Way of Treasure Valley, Boise, ID for a substance abuse treatment program | |
| $333,000 | for | Grass Seed Cropping for sustainable agriculture, ID, OR, WA | University of Idaho, Oregon State University, Washington State University |
| $327,000 | for | Small Fruit Research, ID, OR, WA | |
| $292,000 | for | Lee Pesky Learning Center, Boise, ID to provide educational materials for the Literacy Matters! Program | |
| $292,000 | for | Idaho Caring Foundation, Inc., for oral health services for low-income children | |
| $246,000 | for | Wolf monitoring in ID, MT, WY | |
| $246,000 | for | Idaho Sage Grouse | |
| $243,000 | for | Idaho State University, for the Advanced Clinical Simulation Laboratory, including facilities and equipment | |
| $243,000 | for | Discovery Center of Idaho, Boise, 1D for a science center | |
| $243,000 | for | Madison County Memorial Hospital, for facilities and equipment | |
| $243,000 | for | Teton Valley Hospital and Surgicenter, Driggs, ID for purchase of equipment | |
| $243,000 | for | College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, ID for the Pro-Tech program | |
| $195,000 | for | Boise State University, Boise, ID for the Idaho SySTEMic Solution program | |
| $187,000 | for | Nez Perce Bio-Control Center, ID | Nez Perce Tribe |
| $171,500 | for | Boys and Girls Club of Magic Valley, construction of Boys and Girls Club Facility | |
| $147,000 | for | Renaissance Art Center, Inc., for renovations to the historic theater | |
| $142,000 | for | Idaho One Plan | |
| $141,000 | for | Idaho State University, to investigate the effect of land management decisions on rangeland health and compare other areas to quantify the role of management decisions | |
| $98,000 | for | Custer County for acquisition of an unused middle school building | |
| $98,000 | for | Sustainable Feeds, Aberdeen, ID | |
| $96,000 | for | National Plant Germplasm Program, Aberdeen, ID | |
| $47,000 | for | Idaho Department of Corrections, Boise, ID, for a web-based offender information system | |
