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Earmarks and Open Arms
BREAKING NEWS: 3.11.09 | 3:21 ET
President Obama today signed the omnibus appropriations bill. Included in that measure was a $285,000 earmark for the construction of Open Arms' new building and the expansion of programming to serve additional people living with chronic and progressive diseases. Open Arms is grateful to former Senator Norm Coleman for introducing the earmark, and we are especially grateful to the people of the United States of America for supporting our efforts to make sure that no one who is confronting a potentially life-threatening illness, has to go hungry in the Twin Cities.
3.9.09
Open Arms has been working with members of Minnesota's U.S. Congressional delegation on securing federal funding for our capital campaign to construct a new building and expand services to additional people living with chronic and progressive diseases in the Twin Cities. Last year, Senator Norm Coleman included an appropriations request for $285,000 to assist with our building project. This earmark is part of the appropriations bill that the Senate is currently discussing and which President Obama will need to sign soon.INTERESTED IN READING MORE?
Read Kevin's perspective at the Star Tribune's Your Voices blog.
Or read more about earmarks from a recent article in the Star Tribune.
KSTP Channel 5 also covered the story.
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