Some sense, 11% or less, in a weekend of stimulus eliminations

Congretional Democrats, believe it or not, with a few Republicans (rumored to be Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, both of Maine, and Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania) this weekend have managed to trim a bit of fat from the "stimulus" bill which is approaching $1 Trillion ($1,000,000,000,000). The detailed list is in this article on CNN. The numbers don't look as large without all the 0s so I've taken the liberty of modifying the list and providing a total which doesn't show up in the article:

$1 billion	$1,000,000,000	for Energy Loan Guarantees
$1 billion	$1,000,000,000	for Head Start/Early Start
$1.2 billion	$1,200,000,000	for retrofitting Project 8 housing
$1.25 billion	$1,250,000,000	for project based rental
$16 billion	$16,000,000,000	for school construction
$2 billion	$2,000,000,000	for broadband
$2 billion	$2,000,000,000	for Health Information Technology Grants
$2.25 billion	$2,250,000,000	for Neighborhood Stabilization
$3.5 billion	$3,500,000,000	for energy-efficient federal buildings (original bill $7 billion)
$3.5 billion	$3,500,000,000	for higher education construction
$4.5 billion	$4,500,000,000	for General Services Administration
$40 billion	$40,000,000,000	for state fiscal stabilization (includes $7.50 billion of state incentive grants)
$5.8 billion	$5,800,000,000	for Health Prevention Activity
$10 million	$10,000,000	state and local law enforcement
$100 million	$100,000,000	for distance learning
$100 million	$100,000,000	for Farm Service Agency modernization
$100 million	$100,000,000	for National Institute of Standards and Technology
$100 million	$100,000,000	for science
$100 million	$100,000,000	from FBI construction (original bill $400 million)
$100 million	$100,000,000	from law enforcement wireless (original bill $200 million)
$100 million	$100,000,000	from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (original bill $427 million)
$122 million	$122,000,000	for Coast Guard Cutters, modifies use
$122 million	$122,000,000	for Coast Guard polar icebreaker/cutters
$140 million	$140,000,000	for BYRNE Competitive grant program
$165 million	$165,000,000	for Forest Service capital improvement
$20 million	$20,000,000	for working capital fund
$200 million	$200,000,000	for National Science Foundation
$200 million	$200,000,000	from Environmental Protection Agency Superfund (original bill $800 million)
$200 million	$200,000,000	Transportation Security Administration
$25 million	$25,000,000	for Fish and Wildlife
$25 million	$25,000,000	for Marshalls Construction
$300 million	$300,000,000	for BYRNE Formula grant program
$300 million	$300,000,000	for federal prisons
$300 million	$300,000,000	from federal fleet of hybrid vehicles (original bill $600 million)
$50 million	$50,000,000	for aeronautics
$50 million	$50,000,000	for aquaculture
$50 million	$50,000,000	for Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service
$50 million	$50,000,000	for Cross Agency Support
$50 million	$50,000,000	for detention trustee
$50 million	$50,000,000	for exploration
$50 million	$50,000,000	for NASA
$50 million	$50,000,000	from Department of Homeland Security
$55 million	$55,000,000	for historic preservation
$55 million	$55,000,000	for historic preservation
$600 million	$600,000,000	for Title I (No Child Left Behind)
$65 million	$65,000,000	for watershed rehabilitation
$75 million	$75,000,000	from Smithsonian (original bill $150 million)
$89 million	$89,000,000	General Services Administration operations
$90 million	$90,000,000	for State and Private Wildlife Fire Management
$98 million	$98,000,000	for school nutrition

Grand Total cut is $88.36 billion, or 11% of the supposed $800 billion bill