Bond, McCaskill Ask Committee to Say No to $25M Wasteful Study
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December 9, 2008
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Kit Bond and Claire McCaskill sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee asking them to drop plans for a wasteful $25 million study on the Missouri River. Bond and McCaskill believe that the project would unnecessarily repeat the findings of a $35 million, 15-year project on the use of the river completed just four years ago by the Army Corps of Engineers.
“It doesn’t make any sense to repeat events when circumstances have not changed and such little time has passed. This is a serious waste of taxpayer money and federal resources,” wrote the senators.
The project is currently under consideration as a part an omnibus appropriations bill that could come to a vote early next year. A similar measure was introduced in September of this year as a provision in the 2009 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill. At that time, Senators Bond and McCaskill coauthored a similar letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee and its Energy and Water Development subcommittee in opposition of the proposal. The legislation was never brought to a vote.
Copies of both letters are attached.
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