Reed Saves Funding to Preserve U.S. Natural and Cultural Resources

U.S. Senator Jack Reed today led the successful effort to reject cuts to America's heritage areas and corridors as part of the stopgap Appropriations bill known as the Continuing Resolution. Reed, the Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior & Environment, was among the Senators voting 54-45 to reject Tom Coburn's (R-OK) amendment to cut $8 million from the National Park Service's budget for National Heritage Areas to redirect it to other Park Service priorities, which Mr. Coburn identified as White House tours, despite the fact that the National Park Service is not responsible for public White House tours.