After a breakthrough of sorts last night, the “jobs bill” (it’s hard to know what to call it, there’s so much smushed into it, so I’ve decided on using “jobs bill” as a catch-all) will finally get a vote in the House today. Veteran political reporter David Rogers details the concessions made, and they really don’t look a lot like concessions:

More than $50 billion in multi-year spending appears to have been trimmed from the package, chiefly at the expense of physicians serving Medicare patients. Oil fees will grow even higher, playing off the political anger over the BP spill in the Gulf. And extended jobless and health benefits for the unemployed would sunset Nov. 30, a month earlier than previously planned.

The House Rules Committee was called back into session Wednesday night to clear the way for floor votes Thursday. Having twice delayed action, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D—Cal.) knows she must move quickly if the Senate is to have time to act as well before the holiday recess.

They cut two years off of a three-and-a-half-year solution to the doc fix. Absolutely nobody believes that’ll be the end of the doc fix and Medicare rates will plunge thereafter. Same with jobless benefits, which got dinged by a month. If the price for support is trimming back extensions that will eventually get extended anyway, that’s a concession I like. And more money paid by the oil industry (from 32 cents a gallon to 34) to clean up their mess? Sign me up!

Not to mention that Pelosi did not change the carried interest loophole closure to satsify the interests of venture capitalists. Everyone will pay their fair share, with no specific allowances for any group of money managers. That’s one of the multiple pay-fors in the bill, totaling $57 billion. The overall cost of the bill comes to $109 billion through 2014. You can add to that a war supplemental which could balloon to $84 billion if, as expected, David Obey adds in $23 billion in education jobs funding to save 100,000-300,000 teachers from layoffs.

You can read all the changes made to the jobs bill here. The vote is expected today.