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Valley lawmaker vows to fight for UTB, UTPA merger funding
Posted: 12.06.2012 at 6:51 PM
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Texas State Rep. Rene Oliveira (D-Brownsville)
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Texas State Rep. Rene Oliveira (D-Brownsville) said it's possibly the most important piece of legislation he's ever worked on and quite possibly the best thing to happen in the Rio Grande Valley in the past 50 years.

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