TPM is reporting that Sen. Susan Collins may have deleted low-income heating assistance funding from the stimulus bill. They note that $1 billion in funding that was present in the House version was not present in either the Senate version or the latest draft of the consensus bill, both of which Collins had a major role in negotiating.

TPM reported yesterday (with an anonymous source) that Collins watered-down and killed an accountability measure in the bill that would have protected federal employees who blew the whistle on government waste.