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On the recordDecember 16, 2009
If the Federal government can bail out our automobile companies and banks, it cannot support bailing out the timber industry in Montana?
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

Editor's note · Context

Wyden questioned the government's support for the timber industry compared to other bailouts.

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