Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee brought the "tax extenders" package back, giving no indication on the Senate floor as to whether certain special items like aid for poultry farmers in Arkansas had been kept in the plan or not.

But a little digging turned up the revised 269 page plan, and there it was, the same provisions dealing with a specific "poultry integrator" that declared bankruptcy in December of 2008.

For those who don't remember, that would be Pilgrim's Pride. This bill would give emergency loans to specific chicken farmers who lost out on contracts with that company - with Arkansas the likely destination of most of this $75 million provision.

Other interesting items include an exemption from the brand new PAYGO law, which requires that Congress Pay-as-you-go for new spending and tax cuts.

On page 268, it says nice and clearly that "Sections 201, 211, and 232 of this Act are designated as an emergency" - for those of you not familiar with that, it means the money just gets added on to the deficit.

Section 201 deals with the extension of unemployment insurance benefits - Section 211 is the COBRA health benefits extension.

Those two provisions should cost around $10 billion per month combined. This plan would extend them for ten months, meaning approximately $100 billion would be added to the deficit and not paid for.

The other provision is something new. Section 232 deals with "Extension of ARRA increase in FMAP."

ARRA is the Stimulus law. In that, there was a temporary increase in the "federal matching percentage" (FMAP) for Medicaid.

The plan was designed to help states pay the costs of swelling Medicaid rolls, while their budgets were being squeezed from lower amounts of tax revenues.

As usual, this stuff is written in Legislative Hieroglyphics. To me, it looks like this bill would extend the temporary FMAP increase for Medicaid for another 6 months, through the end of this year.

The original Stimulus FMAP plan was estimated to cost just over $86 billion for 30 months of expanded federal contributions, which averages to just under $3 billion per month.

So if this is adding on another six months, that would be about $17 billion.

That makes my back-of-the-envelope estimate of what would be exempted from the PAYGO law, about $117 billion in extended jobless and COBRA health benefits, plus Medicaid money for the states.

Of course, there is no official cost estimate available as yet for this bill, but maybe one will surface in coming days.