Alaska keeps $452 million to spend as wishes

Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) is getting to keep the $452 million. And, there are now no restrictions on how the money has to be spent: they could build the controversial bridges, or they could spend it on other things.
Oddly enough:

Stevens said he has no choice but to live with his colleagues' decision.
"We're getting attacked from too many sides, and I think (the compromise) is just a necessary thing," he told Alaska reporters a few hours before a House-Senate panel he is on approved the bridge rescission. "I don't like it, but you should hear some of the alternatives that were brought to us."