 spending on steroids during the first week of the new year it s clear that the congress has not turned over a new leaf no resolutions to hold the line on spending for this group spend spend spend at any opportunity first there was the fiscal cliff deal that ended up being a tax hike on the rich and a bunch of pork projects that actually spends more than the tax hike brings in for the year and next came the hurricane sandy relief bill actual emergency relief made up a small percentage of the 60 billion the bill entailed and after more than two months since the hurricane speaker boehner was literally crucified for holding up the vote not to mention that fema reports it will not run out of funds for several weeks for further details on who got the handouts in the fiscal cliff deal see  abcnewsgocom blogs politics 201301 fiscalcliffdealalsodolesoutmillionsforhollywoodrai  and for a partial list of the potential winners in the sandy relief bill check out  townhallcom tipsheet katiepavlich 20130102 theporkfilledandexpensivenonreliefsandyreliefbilln  spending steroids  