Click  here for Congressman Smith's comments on his vote against a 2,500-page, $446.8 billion "omnibus" spending package.

The bill includes six of the seven fiscal year 2010 appropriations bills Congress has yet to pass: Transportation and Housing bill ($67.9 billion - a 21 percent increase from last year), the Commerce, Justice, and Science bill ($64.4 billion - a 6.5 percent increase), the Financial Services bill ($24 billion - a 6.3 percent increase), the Labor, Health, and Human Services bill ($163. 5 billion - a 7.4 percent increase), the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs bill ($78 billion - a 7.1 percent increase), and the State and Foreign Operations bill ($48.8 billion - a 33 percent increase).

The bill, which includes more than 5,000 earmarks, lifts long-standing restrictions on Washington, D.C.'s use of funds for needle-exchange programs and prohibits the District from using local funds for abortion.  The measure eliminates funding for abstinence-only education, instead creating a new $110 million program for "comprehensive sex education."