The stimulus proposal currently before Congress could fund $160 billion in construction projects across many federal departments and agencies, according to the House Appropriations Committee’s explanatory report on the bill. Engineering News Record breaks the appropriations into these categories:

• Transportation
• Defense/Veterans
• Housing/HUD
• Schools
• Energy
• Other Buildings
• Health & Human Services
• Water & Environment

A report by the Congressional Budget Office today, though, criticized the plan and the rate of spending. According to the Washington Post, only $136 billion of the $355 billion House leaders want to allocate to infrastructure and other so-called discretionary programs would be spent by October, 2010.