The Senate passed an emergency spending bill in response to the damage caused by Superstorm Sandy. The bill authorizes $60 billion in emergency spending with no offsets and includes many provisions for long-term projects and unconnected programs such as EPA Global Warming studies, Amtrak subsidies and fishery projects in Alaska. ACU opposes these pork-filled bills that spend taxpayer money with little oversight and opposes this bill. The bill passed the Senate on December 28, 2012, by a vote of 62-32.