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I am on the Hood River County Library Board. All of our funding is from the Timber Payments at issue. We thought about lobbying our Congressmen, but were assured that they were united and doing a good job. Although we were warned that this is too regional an issue to get general support in Congress, the latest breakdown is a huge disappointment. What happened? What are the chances this could get through in this Congress? The next Congress? It seems like states with bridges to nowhere and other huge projects should throw us a bone.

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