-Only 5.9%, or $47 billion, of the entire bill's spending is allocated for infrastructure projects. 3.5 percent of that is devoted to highway construction.
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-The $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts remains in the bill, as does the $2 billion for the Neighborhood Stabilization Fund, a pile of money ACORN would be able to apply to the government to get.
-$15 million to preserve historically black colleges and universities.
-$170 million for climate change research and another $400 million for NASA to conduct climate change research.
-$650 million for digital TV coupons.
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