Governor Beshear Meets With President Obama

{Kentucky}...Governor Steve Beshear made a rare appearance with President Barack Obama Thursday, greeting him publicly at the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Airport. Obama was pitching his jobs bill in Cincinnati by visiting the Brent Spence Bridge, built in 1963, that connects Kentucky and Ohio. Governor Beshear asked President Obama for emergency funds to repair the Sherman Minton Bridge, a dilapidated Louisville bridge that was forced to close September 9th because a crack was found in a steel beam that supports it. Beshear says he also talked with Obama about changes in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulatory guidelines that are jeopardizing thousands of jobs in Kentucky's mining industry, as well as having ripple effects on other job sectors, including manufacturing. Beshear said these arbitrary changes in EPA guidelines cause unnecessary and costly delays in permitting, which compromise jobs and investments, and it's time for the EPA to end these unpredictable policy swings and work with us on a reasonable policy that protects our families.