BA Reserve Center In funding
JIM MYERS
World Washington Bureau
09/28/2008
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate approved a major funding bill Saturday that includes millions of dollars for a number of Oklahoma projects.
Oklahoma's two senators, Republicans Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn, split on the measure with Inhofe voting to pass it and Coburn voting against it. The bill passed by a 78-12 vote.
Inhofe noted the provisions that increase funding for the military as well as those designed to increase energy production.
Citing the Oklahoma projects, he called the bill a huge victory for Tulsa and northeastern Oklahoma.
Those projects include:
• $67 million for an Armed Forces Reserve Center in Broken Arrow.
• $23 million for an Armed Forces Reserve Center in Muskogee.
• $2.5 million for the University of Tulsa's Institute for Information Security.
• $14.8 million for a program to stimulate research at state universities and build on efforts
in states that traditionally have received the least research funding.
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