Congress passes land sale provision for Roosevelt library

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A massive federal spending package approved by Congress this week to provide fresh coronavirus relief includes a provision to fund the proposed Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota. The $2.3 trillion spending package outlines the terms of a land sale for the library in honor of the 26th U.S. president. Roosevelt ranched and hunted in what is now western North Dakota in the 1880s. The North Dakota Legislature last year approved $50 million to operate the library, but specified it must be matched by $100 million in private money for construction. The library foundation said it had obtained those commitments in October.