Here's what a trillion-dollar spending bill looks like

Late Monday, legislators delivered a 1,582-page, $1.012 trillion spending bill to fund the government for fiscal year 2014. The Heritage Foundation stacked up sheets of paper to show the size of the bill, and it also posted the entire bill online.

Better still, the people of Heritage decided to find out what was in it by splitting up the workload and reading it.

Members of Congress might not read the 1,582-page #omnibus, but our team is on it. pic.twitter.com/OUNZ4rR7c5

— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) January 14, 2014

So, what’s in it? Here’s a sample.

Diesel Emissions Reduction grants pay for retrofitted tractors, electrified parking spaces, 1950s locomotive http://t.co/oMqe39w86z #omnibus

— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) January 14, 2014

#Omnibus spends your money on @UNFPA –> organization with ties to China's coercive family planning regime http://t.co/oMqe39w86z

— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) January 14, 2014

Congress blocks postal reform, won't let @USPS discontinue Saturday deliveries or close rural post offices. http://t.co/oMqe39w86z #omnibus

— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) January 14, 2014

Do you think Congress should spend $16 million on a 6-mile pedestrian mall in Fresno, CA? http://t.co/oMqe39w86z #omnibus

— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) January 14, 2014

Did you know your tax dollars are paying for a $20 million trolley car in Kansas City, MO? http://t.co/oMqe39w86z #omnibus

— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) January 14, 2014

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Obama Administration study found Head Start ineffective. So why is #omnibus increasing spending by $612 million? http://t.co/oMqe39w86z

— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) January 14, 2014

Congress rewards Amtrak for its poor performance, offers $1.39 billion subsidy in #omnibus. http://t.co/OIcBAGLZiT

— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) January 14, 2014

Lawmakers stuff #omnibus with at least $1.5 billion green handouts: http://t.co/OIcBAGLZiT

— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) January 14, 2014

Heritage notes that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) are receiving $146 million each. Ten thousand of those dollars will go to fund “dance choreography that explores life in a ‘1961 Oasis trailer,’ to be performed in parking lots and community parks with ‘audience participation.'”