Beshear Expresses Concern For Federal Debt

• {Kentucky}...Governor Steve Beshear expressed concern Thursday about the effects the federal debt ceiling impasse might have on Kentucky's budget. Beshear said Kentucky, like every other state, is watching anxiously while hoping for a quick resolution that would keep federal funding flowing for programs like education, medical care for the poor and elderly, and transportation services. Beshear says he's particularly worried that economic gains at the national and state levels of the past year could be erased if the impasse continues. Beshear called on everyone involved to put aside partisan bickering he said appears to be the basis of the impasse.