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Earmark Data

2005 OMB Earmark Data cleaned by Sunlight Labs

Updated June 12, 2007

Fields cleaned or introduced by Sunlight:

Amount – Actual dollar amounts (cleaned by Sunlight to represent
actual dollar amount and not Amount divided by 1000)

Recipient – Cleaned recipient field. Sunlight added this field to aid
with our data standardization; please do not use it for sorting.

Recipient_old - Recipient field from OMB data; please do not use it for
sorting.

StandardizedRecipient – The cleaned-up recipient field standardizes
the names of companies and organizations, and links subsidiaries to
parents. Use this for any queries or aggregate functions.

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