If you're lost as to why the stimulus bill has a passage dealing with this, that, or the other thing, or why it's thousands of pages long if it was just written at the last minute: it's not a stimulus bill. It's an a must-pass spending bill the stimulus was folded into.
I just saw somebody asking how they call it a "consolidated" bill when it's so long and this is the answer: it's long *because* it's consolidated. They consolidated a bunch of funding and other priorities into one giant bill.
I think this is an area where Congress needs to be better at explaining itself and its doings, because every once in a while the whole country pays attention and doesn't know what's normal or how things work.
So now there are people on every side of the aisle going, "Why are we talking about Tibetan Buddhism in our stimulus package?" and "Why is Pakistan getting more money than I am in our stimulus package?" and none of those things are part of the stimulus package.
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