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Shutdown Deal Includes Nearly $3 Billion For Kentucky Dam Project

by John Stanton at Buzz Feed

http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnstanton/shutdown-deal-includes-nearly-3-billion-for-kentucky-dam-pro

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WASHINGTON — A deal to reopen the government and avert a debt default also includes language authorizing more than $2.8 billion in funding for a locks and dam project championed in the past by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The provision would steer $2.918 billion in funding to the Army Corps of Engineers for the Olmsted dam and lock project on the Ohio River, and would benefit Kentucky, Tennessee, and Illinois.

The language is only one of several provisions lawmakers have tucked into the must pass spending and debt bill which would reopen the government through Jan. 15 and extend the nation’s credit line until the middle of February.

According to a Sen. Lamar Alexander, the provision was needed to ensure $160 million in contracts are not cancelled by the Army Corps of Engineers.



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