HUFFINGTON POST: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) struck a deal with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday, averting a potential debt default and reopening the government while leaving Obamacare virtually untouched, once passed by Congress and signed by the president.
Though the deal comes with concessions from both parties, it also benefits McConnell’s home state of Kentucky.
Section 123 of the Senate bill secures $2.918 billion in funding for the Olmsted Lock and Dam Authority for a dam project on the Ohio River being developed by URS Corp., a construction management company. That’s a huge boost from the $775 million originally allotted. URS told The Wall Street Journal that the project — one of the largest taken on by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — would halt without more funding… (more)
This project is critical to river traffic on the Mississippi river. An infrastructure project so many pine for repeatedly. I have no problem spending this money. I do have a problem with the incompetent, perhaps criminal, initial cost estimates. I would hope the justice department would file charges of gross incompetence.
EDITOR: Since when has “gross incompetence” been against the law?