civil air patrol program of $7 million, unrequested, unauthorized. $273 million in unrequested, unauthorized research on everything from parkinson's disease and h.i.v. to alternative energy and nanotechnology. speaking of although -- alternative energy, the appropriators took unrequested, unauthorized funding throughout a certain division of the bill. $130 billion ambiguously named -- quote -- "alternative energy resource" is scattered for the same sort of programs that brought us the recent achievement of the department of the navy which proudly announced the purchase of 450,000 gallons of alternative fuels for $12 million. my friends, that equates to $26 a gallon. you'll be glad to know your taxpayers' dollars is now paying $26 a gallon for aviation fuel. but, no. no, they need more money. $262 million in unauthorized navy research programs, the list the navy adds is eerily similar to the army's. and as you would expect, it covers a familiar set of member items, nanotechnology, alternative energies and giveaway to home state interests. $53 million increase for space situational awareness.

we've just billions and billions of taxpayer money on projects that are either unneeded, unwanted, unrequestedis system is broken. this system is broken. >> well said. but what do we do, maria? because we told the american people, getting close to a shutdown, there's a deal, a crisis averted. no government shutdown, but we're in the same displays with the bill that has waste in it. what do we do, maria? >> and that's a question i would ask senator mccain. would he rather shut the government down? what's interesting, he talks about projects in there that either weren't needed or the air force didn't want when he was one of the senators who went to bat for a project that the defense department said was absolutely unnecessary in the last go-around. so i think both sides are guilty of this, t.j. i'm putting it at the republicans' seat. they have been working with the president and working with democrats on what needs to be done to create jobs to avert these government shutdowns and to work together in a bipartisan manner to find solutions for the american people. >> go ahead, lenny. i was trying t

and billions and billions of the taxpayers' money on projects that are either unneeded, unwanted, unrequested, and this system is broken. this system is broken. >> some strong words from senator john mccain there. the final vote on the spending bill with 67 for, 32 against. >> reporter: in a rare saturday session, the senate wrapped up their session with a massive bill. >> the conference report is agreed to. >> reporter: a vote to extends the payroll tax cut and extend unemployment assistance as well as other measures, but only for two months. that's because congressional leaders could not reach agreement around a more comprehensive deal to extend these measures that they wanted to accomplish and they were negotiating to extend the measures for up to a year. this short-term extension also includes the key pipeline, but many democrats and the president had stood opposed to. the house still needs to vote on the short-term tax cut extension. they could come back in as early as monday. with these final votes, senators head out of town to begin their holiday break only to return into the new year

billions and billions of the taxpayers' money on projects that are neither unneeded, unwanted, unrequestedtem is broken. we should have taken up these bills one-by-one with amendments, with debate and discussion. >> reporter: still the bill passed the house and senate so it's on the way to the president's desk to be signed to keep the government up and running through september. >> heather: strong words, unneeded, unwanted, unnecessary. they approved a two-month extension of the payroll tax holiday, so they will be battling over this again soon, right? >> yes, the drama may not be over yet. the house has not approved the two-month extension. in a conference call we understand there was opposition. people were unhappy with the two-month extension. they want a full year extension if it was going to go forward. if the deal gets done, when it comes up again, the two-month extension in february, middle of a presidential election. here is a leading senate democrat on the fight ahead. >> we come in to fight the battle in the month of february. i believe we will be in the driver's seat. we will lo

examples of unrequested funding include, $255 million for additional m-1 tank upgrades the army didn't want in order to keep the m-1 production line hot despite no compelling need to upgrade more tanks at this time. $325 million was added for the army national guard and reserve equipment not requested by the army. $8.5 million for air force r&d program called "the medals affordability initiative" the air force didn't consider a high enough priority to fund. $30 million for an industrial base innovation fund that the pentagon didn't ask for. $200 million for the rapid innovation program created by congress in last year's defense authorization bill that the pentagon never asked for. and which has about $439 million in funds left over from last year it hasn't figured out how to spend. the bottom line is this: congress will pump over $1.4 billion into things the pentagon never requested and didn't think were a priority. the american taxpayers are not fooled by this exercise and they have long ago lost patience with it. for all the many good things this conference report did, we still fell

1,221 pages long, representing $915 billion of the taxpayers' money, filled with unauthorized, unrequested money. i haven't had a chance, like the rest of my colleagues, to look at all of this 1,200 page bill, but we have looked at the defense -- there's $3.5 billion of unrequested, unauthorized by the authorizing committee, projects. projects like for guam. you thought the bridge to nowhere was bad? this is 53 civilian school buses and 53 repair kits for $10.7 million. $12.7 million for a cultural artifacts repository. that's in the name of defense. that's in the name of defense. school buses, repository, cultural artifact repository, $100 million for the next-generation bomber which the air force says they don't want and they don't need. some cockamamie outfit like the combat dragon which will be crop-dustingers equipped with weapons. c-17's, $225 million, additional c-17's that long ago the military said they did not need. $3.5 billion just in the d.o.d. provisions alone. it's outrageous. it's outrageous. i have amendments to save the taxpayers billions of dollars as associated with thi