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Thanks to Sen Baucus, Secure Rural Schools plan could have brought $93 million to Montana but the House stripped it out of the legislation

December 12, 2007 /

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Montana Sen. Max Baucus has brokered a deal that will pump more than $93 million into Montana’s timber dependent communities and rural counties through 2011.

Full Story: http://www.thewesternnews.com/articles/2007/12/12/news/news03.txt

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Energy bill loses local aid funding

By NOELLE STRAUB
Gazette Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON – Massive renewable-energy incentives and more than $93 million for Montana rural schools and counties were stripped from the energy bill Thursday after a tax package authored by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., fell short by one vote.

Baucus, as chairman of the tax-writing Finance Committee, had insisted that the energy bill contain a $21.8 billion measure repealing tax breaks for large oil and gas companies and extending renewable energy tax incentives. He also had included funding for the rural schools and communities program in the package.

Full Story: http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/12/14/news/state/47-energybill.txt