The House passed a long-overdue 2007 spending bill Wednesday that will leave dozens of South Dakota programs and special-interest projects short of money.
The Lewis & Clark Rural Water System will probably get what it got last year - $17.5 million - under the tardy spending bill and not the $21 million that President Bush had asked for or the $23.5 million that South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, had sought.
Other South Dakota projects won't get money they sought, such as $2 million to help build a new medical building at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion and $650,000 to help enlarge the South Dakota Children's Home Society in Sioux Falls.
Meanwhile, Representative Herseth has blamed "last year’s governing majority in the House" for losing the funding for the Lewis and Clark water project. Sorry, but last time I checked the Democrats had taken control of the Congress. Spending bills like these originate in the House, and since Herseth is our only voice in that chamber, she should have spoken up. She's in charge. She cannot keep blaming the GOP.
Hat tip to Joel Rosenthal, who comments:
What is as interesting to me as what happened to L & C funding is the lack of comment.
The Argus Leader story is the only story I have seen to date. I have not seen comments by Mayor Munson, Senator Thune, nor any comments by Republican Party officials. Nothing in the SD Political Blogosphere either.
Why is there no comment? Is not this remarkable?
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