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Archive Home > 2008 > June > 12 > Lawmakers vow to save salmon industry funding

Lawmakers vow to save salmon industry funding

Smith, Wyden join colleagues in protesting Bush’s plan to cut relief money

By Matthew Daly / The Bulletin
June 12, 2008

West Coast lawmakers are protesting a plan by the Bush administration to take $70 million from the $170 million approved in the farm bill as disaster relief for the Pacific Coast salmon fishing industry.

Bush’s budget office says the money is needed to pay for higher-than-expected....

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