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December 31, 2000

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KEMSA a winner in Capitol Hill spending bill

By JOHN HULTGREN
Kentucky EMS Connection

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Kentucky Emergency Medical Services Academy will get $400,000 under a federal spending bill passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, sponsored the bill that appropriates the money to Western Kentucky University for the Academy.

Overall, Kentucky will receive $1.1 billion in federal spending, which shows the considerable influence -- and willingness to use it -- of Kentuckians in the appropriations process on Capitol Hill and the privileges of increasing seniority.

"I am pleased to be able to use my position as a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee to bring home funding for these projects, which are important to Kentucky," McConnell said in a statement accompanying a three-page list of funding measures for Kentucky that he had sponsored.

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