No wonder congress didn’t bring this budget up prior to the elections

New spending bill totals $1.1 TRILLION!

• Defying the political odds, Senate Democrats rolled out a year-end, governmentwide spending bill Tuesday that cuts more than $26 billion from President Barack Obama’s 2011 requests even as it holds firm to thousands of the appropriations earmarks so adamantly opposed by critics of Congress
• $575 million PER PAGE
  6,488 earmarks...

McConnell fumes: 'No one has seen it'

• Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says Democrats have not shown Republicans the almost 2000-page omnibus bill.
  …says should pass a short-term budget and not the current $1.1 trillion bill.