The House and Senate have tentatively settled on a compromise $789-billion economic stimulus package, in which science would score a big, one-time infusion of dollars. The dust is still settling, but a fact sheet released by the office of Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House, suggests that the numbers for science are mostly high like the version passed by the House in late January, and not incorporating many of the cuts in the Senate version of the bill.

Let’s run through the numbers again quickly:

$3 billion for the National Science Foundation

$1.6 billion for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science

$8.5 billion for the National Institutes of Health, with another $1.5 billion for NIH facilities

$1 billion for NASA, including $400 million for climate change research

And, of course, the number that is so staggering it’s hard to get your mind around: $30 billion for advances in the electric grid, advanced battery technology, and energy efficiency measures.

Lawmakers are hoping to push final votes on the compromise package through on Friday; Congress is supposed to break for a President’s Day holiday after that, and they had wanted to get it to Obama to sign by Monday. Eventually, they may even get around to passing a final budget for fiscal year 2009 — which began back in October.

It’s been a busy day in Washington elsewhere. A Senate committee held confirmation hearings on the nominations of John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco to be, respectively, head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; for details, see Eric Hand’s blog post here. But the man who would be Lubchenco’s boss — Judd Gregg, nominee for Commerce secretary — withdrew his name from consideration, citing “irresolvable conflicts” with the Obama administration. He’s the second person to drop out for the Commerce job, following New Mexico governor Bill Richardson.