Read the PDF linked in the article: Federal Spending by the Numbers. It's quick and it has pictures. Like this one.

Where has the cash gone?

1. The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, which is responsible for much of the 58 percent inflation-adjusted increase
A 2002 farm bill that pushed annual farm spending to double the levels of the 1990s;A 2003 Medicare drug entitlement estimated to cost $783 billion over the next decade and trillions in the following decades;The 2005 highway bill, which, at $286 billion over six years, is the most expensive highway bill ever; andLarge expansions of outlays for the refundable Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit.

If you only a page, make it the laundry list of spending on page 11.