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Bipartisan congressional group hopes to restore bill providing millions in rural school funding - Salem Reporter

A bipartisan group of lawmakers from the West are joining forces to persuade Congress to reauthorize a 24-year-old bill that has sent billions to states including Oregon for critical public services and schools. Oregon’s U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, both Democrats, and two Idaho Republicans — U.S. Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch — announced Feb. 4 that they are reintroducing the Secure Rural Schools Act that was left to die without a vo…