Posted on 12/16/2010 4:14:11 PM PST by devane617
Senate Democrats rolled out a bill Wednesday providing more than one trillion dollars to keep the government running.
It also includes a few other things such as $400,000 to commemorate the1959 visit of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to Iowa. The money would be used to build the Khrushchev in Iowa trail for bikers and hikers.
It's just one of $8 billion worth of earmarks in the bill, CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports.
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