steps in picking a committee that will talk about the future of federal spending and the debt and hopefully craft a plan to take the federal government through the next year. >> for more on what is in the bill, let's turn to cnn's athena jones. she is live with us in washington this morning. there's actually some stuff in there that is quite a surprise to a lot of people and outrage to a few people too. >> reporter: good morning, john. some people may call it pork. the bill is 35 pages and our folks are pored through it and here are some of the other things addressed in this bill. one is 2.2 billion for an ohio river dam project between kentucky and illinois. there's 636 million dollars for firefighting for the interior