As they re prepared today to pass, debate and knock around an omnibus bill that would cost $1.1 trillion. catch all. this is a gigantic bill. keep in mind, this is on the senate side and it s $1.2 trillion like brian said. this bill is 1,924 pages long. in it, republicans have been pouring over it and they have found at least 6,000 earmarks totalling $8 billion for really important stuff like this. stuff we can t live without. $84 million for pacific salmon preservation from senator patty murray. 3,094,000 for subterranean termite research. thank you. and there s other you know, we ve got $this one $500,000 for obesity research. i ll tell you for free, people eat too much. keep $499,000 for yourself.
You have some new early voting numbers, mark. what do you have? brooke, the last time we talked it was about 24.4 million people voted early. look where we are now. new data that just came in in the last hour, 31 million people have cast ballots in 38 states. but i want to look at four different states right now. two in the midwest. two out west. let s look at iowa right now. almost 499,000, 500,000 people have cast their votes in iowa. let s dig deeper. we look at 2016 and right now documents have a 41,000-vote edge. but if you go back to 2012, they had a 60,000 ballot edge in return ballots so not necessarily good news for democrats in the state of iowa, public polling shows donald trump is leading in that state. let s stay in the midwest and go to ohio. 1.3 million people right now have cast early ballots in the state of ohio.