Members of the US House and Senate are restarting the budget process in anticipation of the release of a spending plan from the Obama Administration. The country has been operating on a series of continuing resolutions over the past four years in the absence of an actual budget. Changes to the process have starved many projects that depended on federal dollars, among them, the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System. South Dakota Senator John Thune says he has been pushing to get the project back on the funding track…
Thune says possible increases in funding will be set by the Appropriations Committee…
Thune says without earmarks, it is hard to add dollars to individual projects…