Mississippi Needs Federal Stimulus Money

House Speaker Billy McCoy says he can't understand why any official would think of rejecting money the state might receive from a federal stimulus package.

By: Jamie Burch | WKRG-TV
Published: February 02, 2009

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi House Speaker Billy McCoy says
he can't understand why any official would think of rejecting money
the state might receive from a federal stimulus package.
McCoy, a Democrat, says he was puzzled to read comments by
Republican Gov. Haley Barbour over the weekend.
In an Associated Press report from Washington, Barbour said he
didn't have details about conditions that might be attached to the
federal money. The governor said he didn't know whether he'd take
all that's being designated for Mississippi.
McCoy says Mississippi is struggling to write a budget for the
fiscal year that begins July 1. The state is in line to receive
more than $1 billion under a plan that passed the U.S. House and is
pending in the Senate.

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