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Feingold to hold area listening sessions

Eau Claire (WQOW)- U.S. Senator Russ Feingold will hold listening sessions in Chippewa and Dunn Counties on Saturday, February 6. 

Senator Feingold has pledged to hold listening sessions in all of Wisconsin's 72 counties each year of his six-year term and this will be the Senator's 18^th year of holding listening sessions.  These sessions will mark the 21^st and 22^nd listening sessions of 2010 and the 1245^th and 1246^th since 1993.  If constituents need special accommodations at the listening sessions they should contact Senator Feingold's Middleton office at 608-828-1200.

His Chippewa County listening session will be held at 10:45 a.m. at the Bloomer Middle School, 600 Jackson Street, Bloomer.  The meeting will last up to an hour.

His Dunn County listening session will be held at 1:30 p.m. in the Gymnasium at Boyceville High School, 1003 Tiffany Street, Boyceville.  The meeting will last up to an hour.

"I look forward to meeting with constituents in Chippewa and Dunn counties, as I learn more at these town meetings than I learn anywhere else," Feingold said.  "In order for me to be an effective legislator, I need to hear from the people I represent and they deserve every opportunity to let me know directly what they think about a particular issue.  This is democracy in action and I am grateful to all those who take time out of their busy schedules to come to my meetings and let me know about the issues important to them.  The feedback I receive is essential to my job as a U.S. Senator."