$1.01T Spending Bill...

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A donor who gave the maximum $32,400 this year to the Democratic National Committee or Republican National Committee would be able to donate another $291,600 on top of that to the party’s additional arms -- a total of $324,000, ten times the current limit. Read more on this here.

Well, kind of. The former House majority leader stunned the political world by losing in a GOP primary last summer. But Congress agreed to provide $12.6 million for his signature legislative achievement -- the Gabriella Miller Kids First Act, which authorizes new federally-funded pediatric research. The bill was paid for by slashing federal funding for political conventions.

One of the GOP's favorite targets will see its budget slashed by $345.6 million. The nation’s tax agency also would be banned from targeting organizations seeking tax-exempt status based on their ideological beliefs.

The legislation once again enacts a pay freeze for the vice president "and senior political appointees."

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The bill bans taxpayer funding for official portraits of any Executive Branch employees, lawmakers and heads of legislative agencies.

For the first time, the benefits of current retirees could be severely cut, part of an effort to save some of the nation’s most distressed pension plans. The change would alter 40 years of federal law and could affect millions of workers, many of them part of a shrinking corps of middle-income employees in businesses such as trucking, construction and supermarkets.

The perennial ban on providing money for the ongoing renovation of U.N. Headquarters in New York remains intact.

There's $1 million in the bill "to compensate ranchers for livestock killed by wolves."

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There's $1 million in the bill "to compensate ranchers for livestock killed by wolves."

You know, instead of having ranchers being RESPONSIBLE for their own livestock and invest in fenc....

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