The House could vote today on an over $60 billion supplemental spending bill that would funnel more money to the war in Afghanistan.  But Democrats are planning to add in a lot of extras as well.

The 110 pages of legislative text has some very interesting items in it, like $245 million for the Internal Revenue Service for "Enforcement".

Maybe this is money that would be used to add extra IRS agents to deal with the new health care reform law?

How about the Public Safety Employer Employee Cooperation Act?  That is a piece of legislation backed by Democrats and labor unions, which would force state and local governments to collectively bargain with police, fire, rescue workers.

As for extra spending items tucked into this bill, here is what I came up with last night:

$356 million for extra action on the Southwest Border with Mexico
$14 million for border security fence, etc
$32 million for unmanned aircraft
$9 million for "three forward operating bases for use by the Border Patrol"
$50 million for FEMA border readiness programs in Operation Stonegarden
$8.1 million for Border Patrol training
$10 billion for an Education Jobs Fund
$16.5 million for a soldier readiness processing facility
$50 million for emergency food assistance
$201 million for Department of Justice SW border enforcement
$300 million for Department of Defense DC BRAC
$163 million to expand military schools
$38 million for Social Security disability reviews

One thing that is very different about this bill is that there are a number of items in the bill where money is rescinded - pulled back to the Treasury from various agencies. 

Sometimes there are a few rescissions in a bill like this, but this is clearly an effort to find money to pay for various items in this bill, insulating Democrats against big-spending attacks by the GOP.

Overall, there is $11.7 billion in savings.  Here are the some of those savings provisions:

$69.9 million rescission from the Department of Agriculture
$300 million rescission from USDA Broadband Program in stimulus law
$361 million rescission from USDA WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) program
$125 million rescission from USDA WIC unobligated balances
$15 million rescission from NIST research facility construction in stimulus
$302 million rescission from NTIA Broadband program in stimulus
$300 million rescission from Defense Health Programs
$107 million rescission from Navy Shipbuilding
a series of DOD Appropriations rescissions totaling $1.72 billion
$303 million in rescission of military spending
$250 million rescission from military money in stimulus
$177 million rescission from a 2008 supplemental spending bill
$35 million rescission from a 2009 disaster funding bill for Mississippi River & Tributaries
$4.8 million unspent money from a 2006 Hurricane Rita bill for Flood Control
$5 million in unspent money from a Flood Control bill
$2.2 million unspent money from "Construction" in the 2005 Pentagon budget bill
$190 million in unspent money from the Army Corps of Engineers
$78 million in unspent money from the Department of Energy
$71 million in unspent money from funding for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
$20 million in unspent money from Nuclear Energy accounts
$18 million from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
$53.8 million from Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
$100 million rescission from the General Services Administration
$6.6 million rescission from Aviation Security accounts
$7 million in unspent money from the Coast Guard
$36 million in unspent money from FEMA
$200 million in unspent money from Customs and Border Protection
$6.4 million rescission from the Bureau of Land Management
$3.2 million in National Park Service construction money
$5 milliion rescission from the US Geological Survey
$9.8 million rescission from Bureau of Indian Affairs
$6 million rescission from Superfund cleanup programs
$9.2 million rescission from EPA Underground Storage Tank programs
$13 million rescission from EPA Environmental Programs
$20 million rescission from USDA Forest Service
$4.4 million rescission from Interior Department Working Capital Fund
$15.9 million National Park Service construction rescission                     
$13.3 million rescission in Fish & Wildlife rescission
$2 billion rescission from emergency flu pandemic funds
$300 million rescission from Department of Education
$500 million rescission in an Education Department grant program
$5 million in unspent money from the Capitol Visitor Center project
$340 million rescission in Army Military Construction projects
$110 million rescission in Navy/Marine Corps Construction
$50 million rescission from Air Force Construction
$6.1 million rescission in Veterans Department stimulus money
$150 million rescission for Millenium Challenge Corporation
$40 million in unspent money from the State Department
$30 million in unspent funds from the Agency for International Development
$40 million for "Capital Investment Fund" is rescinded
$7.8 million in unspent money from the FAA
$711 million from a Housing/Community Development fund
$2 billion in federal highway money for the states is rescinded

Other interesting provisions I found include two related to the Gulf of Mexico/BP oil spill.

Section 4148 gives the feds 90 days (instead of 30) to review plans by an oil company for environmental, safety or other reviews of offshore drilling plans.

And there is a provision on illegal aliens: "A State shall require as a condition of oil spill unemployment assistance under this section that each alien who receives such assistance must be legally authorized to work in the United States."

As usual, the stories I cover are much more interesting when you can dig down into the details.